Now, hear me out.....
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You need a SSD tho, other than that this beats Umbrelβs home server
Yeah. For the Dells I recommend an upgrade. For about $100 you can get a 2TB SSD nvme and a caddy to plug in place of the optical drive. That's good for a few years of Bitcoin running even if blocks are full of inscriptions.
Shit, you can buy no-name Chinese 2TB SSDs for like $60, but if you want name brand:
I've heard of many failures on the recent Samsung EVOS in past few years. Great brand usually, and probably just a numbers issue, but still makes me nervous.
Then again, I've had to return WDs and had a TeamGroup prematurely fail at 3 years.
Lol. Nice.
I don't need to spend the money but I've been looking at a few similar to that just to slap in a closet and let it do node/relay things. The specs are damn good for $100. I've been seeing some with even better specs for under $300
I've gotta spend the money this year. My drives are in the yellow on space and the extra horsepower and ram will be handy.
But I gotta decide if I want an i5 CPU or splurge a little on an i7. SFF vs Tower also relevant as the small towers are excellent for storage
I mean, this works too. Double the RAM, really solid looking processing speed, has SSD storage already, wifi in case you want.....under $300
