What’s the best price/performance for a home lab server running Linux with ECC these days? Bonus points if it is rackable.
Sadly, my go-to Linux hardware manufacturers either don’t offer ECC RAM, or only offer it as an option on their absolute top-end machines. Yes, yes, the extra two thousand dollars for a machine with a six-year lifespan probably is worth it on a monthly basis, but man it still hurts.
> What’s the best price/performance for a home lab server running Linux with ECC these days? Bonus points if it is rackable.
Old used enterprise server. None of them will be great at power/performance in typical (i.e. mostly idle) home use tho. Intel ones usually far better here
I recently(ish) built a new home server using an cheap AM5 motherboard from ASUS that supports ECC. Good performance and power usage is around 45 W idle with a couple of SSDs and a couple of HDDs spinning.
Not the cheapest, but I wanted to keep power consumption low for noise and reduced heating while still having good performance if needed.
I also considered a motherboard with IPMI on AM5(Asrock rack), but that was much more expensive.
Sadly, my go-to Linux hardware manufacturers either don’t offer ECC RAM, or only offer it as an option on their absolute top-end machines. Yes, yes, the extra two thousand dollars for a machine with a six-year lifespan probably is worth it on a monthly basis, but man it still hurts.