diff --git a/Home.md b/Home.md index 6a57961..80a2d73 100644 --- a/Home.md +++ b/Home.md @@ -100,8 +100,20 @@ Power consumptions benchmarks are easy to find over the web for the TS 451+. Taking into account my average usage, I recon my TS 451+ consumption to average 30W which would amount to 5.58 $ / year in electricity. # Ebay browsing + +I went for the best bang for your buck strategy there, even more so, what's the dirt-cheapest server I can find that will have the specs necessary to replace my stack. + +Being a great fan of [Stéphane Graber's videos](https://www.youtube.com/@LXD), where he once showcased his 3 servers cluster bought on ebay for "250-300$", that was a good price base. + +And indeed, there are lots of servers to buy from ebay for 250$. The data center industry is pushed to acquire every new generation of servers as they generally present real advantages on the performance or TCO front. 2 generations later you have myriads of servers that no one is interested in getting, safe for the personal hobyists as myself. + +But even those servers are far too powerful for my needs and being determined to go the miser way, I eventually found this beauty : + + ![ebay_offer](https://gitea.micouleau.info/alex/homelab-project/raw/commit/37dd4dcf0aea6879754f1c345fc5bc1acac56048/ebay-offer.png) +Yep, a hundred bucks, 130 with shipping for something 4x+ more powerful than the Atom I rent. And at half the price I was set on. + ![ebay_disks](https://gitea.micouleau.info/alex/homelab-project/raw/commit/9769a81d550ccb2a177abd0821cc15613d5950fd/ebay-hdd.png) ## Buying costs