On: Building an ARM64 home server the hard way

[znpy]

> The total cost comes to around €350

A few weeks ago I bought an used intel nuc7 with a 7th gen core i5… for 150€.

It came with a 120gb ssd, 4gb ram and a power brick.

I still don’t see the value in this SBCs used as home servers.

[jforberg → znpy]

NUC is a single board computer :)

If you think the price is high, I would point out that the SSD I used cost €200 new when I purchased it back in mid 2022. A used 120 GB SSD by contrast can be had for maybe €10 which alone would explain the difference in cost.

Now if 120 GB is enough for your application, that's a good value so more power to you.

[znpy → jforberg]

> NUC is a single board computer :)

My laptop is also a single board computer, technically, so what?

[tyingq → znpy]

The Lenovo "Tiny" machines are also cheap on eBay, even one with a Ryzen 5 and 8Gb RAM for ~$140USD.

Though there are reasons to specifically want an ARM64 machine for builds, etc.

[candiddevmike → tyingq]

I just want something small with ECC RAM

[tyingq → candiddevmike]

Not cheap, but does support ECC:

https://morefine.com/products/morefine-s500-mini-pc

The FAQ question reads a bit funny:

"Q19:Support ECC RAM？

YES. S500+ Support ECC RAM，

But compatibility requirements are higher, and cannot be used casually."

Also, these AsRock products:

https://www.asrockind.com/en-gb/4X4%20BOX-V1000M

https://www.asrockind.com/en-gb/4X4%20BOX-R1000M

[candiddevmike → tyingq]

Thank you for the links, that morefine one seems really nice, would need to get 2.5Gb networking gear...

I currently have a single 16 core/64 GB ECC Ryzen tower with ZFS that I'd like to break into a ZFS ARM ECC NFS server with a separate small form factor Ryzen or ARM compute cluster.

[malteg → candiddevmike]

Honeycomb? https://www.solid-run.com/arm-servers-networking-platforms/h... I think they also have a lite version supporting ECC…