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@@ -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. 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 # 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) ![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) ![ebay_disks](https://gitea.micouleau.info/alex/homelab-project/raw/commit/9769a81d550ccb2a177abd0821cc15613d5950fd/ebay-hdd.png)
## Buying costs ## Buying costs