Hardware question
reddit / selfhosted

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yelloguy · 2023-12-20 22:25

I set up a Proxmox server using a cheap craigslist home PC with 8GB
RAM last year. It has worked very well for me so far. Now I am
thinking of picking up another one like that. But this got me thinking
if I am better off buying a server grade hardware instead. There are a
ton of refurb "workstations" on Newegg with Intel Xeon processors and
32GB RAM for around $100. The problem is that I have no experience
with this kind of hardware. Has anyone looked into using one of those
for home lab? Do you have any advice for me?

I have only 3-4 LXC containers currently and they total up to 5GB used
memory. But I am thinking I can replace my Synology with Xpenology,
and maybe set up a Windows virtual machine. In fact, I am curious if I
can take it to the next level and run Lightroom Classic in a VM like
that - if I can get a decent graphics card and pass that through to my
Windows VM. However, at that point, am I better off just running a
Windows machine (bare metal) headless and RDP into it when I want?