Subnostr

Alright nerds. I bought a old HP Elite 3800 desktop off eBay. Ordered some upgrades mostly from eBay: a new GeForce graphics card, 24G RAM, 500G SSD for OS (Linux Mint), a secondary 2T SSD for Bitcoin Core, and a i7-3770 to upgrade the CPU.

Not top of the line but very functional and zippy for what I am going to ask it to do. Got the whole kit for around $300 which is a lot cheaper than a Pi setup for a node and I get a daily driver on top. I still have to put everything together and get it running but it’s a lot easier than people think

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jascha 2y ago

Not running Proxmox to break apart into VMs/Containers? Could run a lot more than full node on it if wanted.

GHOST 2y ago

Like what?

jascha 2y ago

nostr relay like strfry? pi-hole is another good one.

Some others:

https://write.bz/jascha/home-servers-for-data-ownership-and-privacy

Shap 2y ago

Just got a Mac mini i7 up and running with 1tb. Set up with Linux and umbrel. Pretty smooth process minus taking forever and glitching out while doing initial sync. Love finding purpose for these older machines.

Derek Ross 2y ago

If you have any funds left over, I'd get a second storage drive for redundancy. Remember, all storage drives have a 100% failure rate. Being able to have a RAID even if it's a Linux software RAID would help with machine longevity.

tigs 2y ago

What's the GeForce graphics card for?

I thought everything else you purchased would do the job quite well.

GHOST 2y ago

Just to get a hdmi video output for monitors

tigs 2y ago

Oh one thing I should probably mention #[2] ... Do you have a UPS? Nothing quite like being able to shutdown your node safely when the power goes out.

GHOST 2y ago

No not yet. One thing at a time. I’m only a weekend warrior and very much a newbi.

tigs 2y ago

All good mate! I was meant to get one a few days ago but I had to prioritize some other hardware. It's definitely next on my list though. Once you have a NUC that IS NOT A Pi.

- You garner ALOT more faith in the uptime of your system and it's capacity to route lightning and do general Node things. It's around this time I felt the importance of getting a UPS 😄

djmeistro✝️ 🍊💊⚡️ 2y ago

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