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I have 96GB of ECC DDR3 laying around with nothing to put it in. I should find some low-power hardware that will take it.
“96GB of DDR3” will never really be “low power”, take it from a guy who built a homelab with a DDR3 machines a while ago…but you should still pick up whatever hardware you can as soon as you can. Like, seriously, they’re taking personal computing away from us.
Temu will save us all with 3rd party Chinese parts that are cheaper and only slightly buggier and no docs. I'm ready for the fight.
B-bu-buh-buht muh cloud computing, and S3 buckets, and no need for physical, and non-ownership!
This is exactly why I started moving my shit off Proton Drive and into my external hard drive. Yes, the Proton Suite is private and secure, but I want to own my shit.
Also why I'm moving my shit off Bitwarden and onto KeepPass.
Backups are key, Lemmyngs!
Vaultwarden?
No chipsets from that era that handle 96GB are going to be affordable to run - unless you’ve got excess solar or something.
Move to a colder climate and offset it by using the waste heat!
I'm in Australia. The only thing higher than the mercury is the power bill.
I skipped on solar when building the house. Maybe I should look at doing that. My whole cabinet idles at 100w. The RAM is in an old Cisco 1U server that idles at 130w and is actually slower than my 4th gen core i5 server. It's never going into prod.
I've had the motherboard sitting around collecting dust for awhile. I was looking into buying a NAS until I realized it was a ripoff. Figured why not build a system around POS from 2011.
When I wanted my current server to be available for more experimental loads I decided I needed a new machine and at that time all hdds had gone up in price, but a package of ds225+ with 2x16TB had not yet been price increased so I got the NAS "for free".
I would've repurposed an old gaming machine otherwise.
Worth looking for those kind of "deals" where someone has forgotten to increase a bundle price.
DS225+ with jellyfin and transcoding:
I added 16GB RAM (Crucial 16GB (1x16GB) DDR4 3200MHz CL22 SODIMM) and the github.com/007revad/Transcode_for_x25 fix to enable proper transcoding for a docker install of Jellyfin and enough RAM to add other "production load" dockers in the future.Now I can play around all I want on my old server while Jellyfin and SMB shares remain available on redundant drives with automated backups. I've also blocked the NAS from the internet in my router now to ensure that Synology can't "fix" the transcode fix.