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Lenovo Thinkstation P620's make excellent #homelab machines.

This one has a 64 Core Threadripper Pro (128 threads) & 256 GB ram. it also has other cool features such as dedicated management and some awesome internal modular cable management.

I managed to score this pretty cheap of eBay (it's based on the older 3995 WX CPU) and have another one due this coming week (for a HA pair). I'm pairing these with a mellanox 25 GigE fibre card, aggregation switch and a 25 GigE capable synology providing NFS exports for VMs n such.
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phil 2y ago

That looks nice! What is the power consumption like and how noisy are they? What 25GbE switch are you using?

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Adrian Cantrill 2y ago

It seems to use about 100W ish ... I need to do a good period of monitoring and get accurate figures. It's nothing super excessive.

The 25 GIGE fibre switch is a Ubiquiti Pro Aggregation 24 ... has a ton of 10 GigE SFP+ slots and a set of 4 25GIGE slots.

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phil 2y ago

Nice. I’ve just started upgrading parts of my home network to 10GbE but don’t really have the need for 25GbE at home yet!