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		Animats on Sept 26, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My $300 Home Cloud Server If you want previous-generation rackmount gear, try Weird Stuff Warehouse, in Sunnyvale, CA. Weird Stuff is where Silicon Valley data centers go to die. Typical: "HP Proliant DL160 G5 2x Quad-Core Xeon E5472 @ 3.0GHz 4GB RAM 1U Server - $189.95" They have lots of older Cisco gear and all the accessories you need to build a retro data center. Not that you'd want to.

theonewolf on Sept 26, 2014 [–]

That's already more expensive than what I paid for the 1U server :-)

And I packed in 24 GB RAM for less than $190 (I think $188).

Only the HDDs bring the price up, and a couple other accessories, to $300.

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