Hello folks a wild Dell optiplex 320 appeared to me for $38,00.
Core 2 duo processor 4gb RAM (which I can easily upgrade) 160gb HD (which I’ll certainly change for a 1TB SSD
I would use It as a file server, maybe with nextcloud. It is Just for myself maybe S.O.
What’s your toughts on It? Pass or get?
$38 is great. I’d wager if a raspberry pi can do it, so can this machine. A pi can run Nextcloud and some other services together just fine.
Nextcloud on Pi was really slow for me.
Did you set up redis as well?
Just used the default sqlite3 database. Was it slow because of the database?
sqlite should be okay but redis helps with loading. It caches pages or something, basically does all the work of building the web pages before they’re actually requested so it isn’t done on the fly.
My Nextcloud set up on my i5-4690k was painfully slow as well because I didn’t have redis. I never got it set up properly and gave up.
I think the 1gb ram of my Raspberry Pi is enough for that.
Definitely upgrade the RAM. Also get at least two drives in RAID or ZFS or something so you can tolerate a failure. And keep backups too, if you can’t afford to lose data.
get at least two drives in RAID or ZFS
Why do you think OP needs high availability?
In case of disk failure, simply redeploy and restore backups. Having an automated and fast redeployment procedure (and working backups) is a must-have, disk fault tolerance is not, IMHO (unless you have specific requirements).
I don’t think OP has backups.
Having one, the other, or both depends on how sure you need to be about recovery, and whether you care about it being available until recovery.
It’s not worth more than $5
3800 is way overpaying
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Ah, that makes sense
Another doubt of mine is about power consumption, any thoughts on it too?
Check to see how many SATA power connections are available. My Optiplex 3620 only has four and I wasn’t confident that I could expand that without overwhelming the PSU. I bought a 24 to 8 pin adapter so I could use a normal non-proprietary power supply.
Consider those costs if you’re thinking you might install a lot of drives.
I would defiantly not recommend you buying this. If you can you should get a ARM based SOC with sata drives. Its probably going to a bit more expensive but it will be way faster and efficient.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters PSU Power Supply Unit RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage
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