From dbdaa8cb12b2c684500579be8e528307e7e1b7d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: alex Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 15:22:06 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?Mise=20=C3=A0=20jour=20de=20'Home'?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- Home.md | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Home.md b/Home.md index 66c6764..ff5c988 100644 --- a/Home.md +++ b/Home.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -This is part 1 - Why and how to get a server, [Part 2: Install the server](install_the_server) +This is part 1 - Why and how to get a server, [Part 2: Install the server](install_the_server), [Part 3: Tests](hw_tests), [Part 4: setup and migrate](migrate) Disclaimer : All opinions, ideas and choices described thereafter are stricly my own. @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ The monthly cost of this NAS thus amounts to 3.75€/month For running all my services, the two machines consume around : * under 2 GHz cores full time (the cpu cores of my two machines are similar enough to be aggregated) * less than 8 GiB of RAM -* around 1 TB of disk space +* around 850 GiB of disk space In terms of monthly costs we're set at around 36 € / month @@ -133,23 +133,39 @@ But even those servers are far too powerful for my needs and being determined to ![ebay_offer](https://gitea.micouleau.info/alex/homelab-project/raw/commit/37dd4dcf0aea6879754f1c345fc5bc1acac56048/ebay-offer.png) -Yep, a hundred bucks, 130 with shipping for something incomaparably more powerful than the Atom I rent. And at half the price I was set on. It's also a HPE, so good hardware and a brand commonly used at Canonical, this looks like a great candidate ! +Yep, a hundred bucks, 130 € with shipping for something incomaparably more powerful than the Atom I rent. And at half the price I was set on. It's also a HPE, so good hardware and a brand commonly used at Canonical, this looks like a great candidate ! Now, let's get some disks. So, it's worth mentioning that server manufacturers are apparently not the best in class when it comes to open standards, interoperability, support and maintaining legacy hardware. HPE, as you'll read [Part 2: Install the server](later) is even pretty bad on that front. Unsupported hardware, unmaintained software. -For instance, I read that HPE is only supporting their own brand of hard disks (not the cheapest one obviously). Some hardware may work fine, but some disks might have the effect of having the fans running full speed continuously. +For instance, I read that HPE is only supporting their own brand of hard disks (not the cheapest one obviously). Some hardware may work fine, but some disks might have the effect of having the fans running full speed continuously. Luckily I stumbled upon this offer ![ebay_disks](https://gitea.micouleau.info/alex/homelab-project/raw/commit/9769a81d550ccb2a177abd0821cc15613d5950fd/ebay-hdd.png) +4 HDD certified for my server for a total of yet again 130 € with shipping. They are second hand HDD. But they are sold as "working". I'll run some tests on those to check their real mileage. + +This config is promising as it looks like it fits both my needs and budget + ## specs comparison +The config I am running for is clearly an overkill in terms of CPU : + ![Cpu comparison](https://gitea.micouleau.info/alex/homelab-project/raw/branch/master/CPU%20scores.png) +This config will provide: + +* 24 vcores (when I really need about 2 of them) +* Twice the computing power each core being twice as powerful as the CPUs I am currently running +* 48 GiB of ram when 4 were really needed and 16 was the target +* 1.8TB of disk space so twice my current usage + + + ## Costs ### Buying costs / CAPEX +In total for server, hard disks, and shipping : under than 250€ -That's short server, hard disks, and shipping : under than 250€ +### Running costs