datahoarder
Who are we?
We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
We are one. We are legion. And we're trying really hard not to forget.
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Requirement is mITX for the rack. Seeing other responses, you can see there are reasonable options available.
You're not understanding what I'm saying. You're going to spend $2,000 on premium hardware because it's designed for a small form factor and to be power efficient, and it's still not going to meet all of your wish-list requirements...
The sensible choice is to upgrade your rack so you can use non-mITX boards and equipment and only spend $1,500 on equipment and actually meet your wish-list requirements.
It's an easy choice, if you ask me.
I understand you haven't looked at what's out there and the pricing. I can make one of those boards linked, with PCIe expansions, work for ~ $250.
My 5 year old gaming mITX even gets most of the way there.
I build these professionally. For a living... Say what you want, but you're going to end up buying hardware you can't fully utilize at a premium. Period.
You.. You do know.. This is Lemmy.. Right? So does everyone else 😅