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I feel like people are sleeping on the Minisforum MS-R1 as a good value home server PC (lemy.lol)
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For $600 the Minisforum MS-R1 gives you 64GB DDR5 ECC, 12 cores, dual 10GbE, a real PCIe 4.0 x8 slot, M.2 NVMe, Pi-compatible 40-pin GPIO, and actual UEFI boot. It runs Debian and Proxmox/KVM.

I've read that the CPU is trash compared to intel/amd in performance and in TDP, but you can't build a mini pc/server on intel/amd right now for thaf price with that amount of RAM.

Even just buying the 64GB ddr5 RAM as sticks will be like over 800$...

In the low budget range you can go with a Pi 5 16GB which is now ~$300. Add PSU, case, NVMe HAT, PCIe HAT and you're at $500+. It's way too expensive for what you get, compared to spending a bit more and going with minisforum.

Yeah you can get old used boxes with that amount of RAM for maybe the same price, but they'll such 200W and electricity is expensive where I live.

My current pine64 soquartz cluster over the past 5 years has been dying node by node and I can't run anything more demanding on it (like game servers or local AI). It cost me about 600$ back then with 5x blade + nvme + soquartz module, a poe switch and a case with fans. Kinda seems like a bad deal now, I'm stuck with all the docker swarm issues and the bad cpu cores and max 8gb ram per node. Oh and it draws 52W. If the minisforum 12W TDP is correct, I will save over 100$ per year on electricity costs alone.

Maybe i'm biased and trying to justify my own purchase ... let me know if I'm wrong about it being good value.

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[โ€“] ArborNode@lemmy.shutes.org 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

I like your idea, but minisforum has much better platforms for self hosting. The better options do cost twice as much. Not sure they are cost effective as far as purchase price goes.

I run one with an AMD chip set and very much like it. Its fairly low power usage, but I haven't measured in a while. For what it's worth, I really like mine.

[โ€“] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

The better options do cost twice as much

Yeah thwre are a lot of better options for lots more money. But I don't have that kind of money.

I need lots of RAM for as cheaply as possible while also being low-ish on the power cpnsumption. There is for example old server hardware on ebay that has 64GB or more RAM but draws like 300W idle. And it's not even that much cheaper to buy. Like I said for me, a 40W difference is about 100$ per year, so anything lower power than my current server will eventually pay for itself.

I would have gone with amd or intel or whatever, but I didn't find anything in that price range.