I am currently serving a photoprism instance for my self and the wife. I want to expand to have everyone’s home folder on the server. So we would have 5 home folders, all lunuxes. Anyway so I’m looking at some old servers that actually look pretty good.
HPE Proliant DL360 Gen9
I’ve been comparing it with other servers and it seems to be the easiest to use for the semi intrepid admin wannabe that I am. Is there anything better in the sub $300 range?
I’m assuming power efficiency and low noise are not a requirement?
Yeah not required. It will basically act as a heater and then my central heater will just work less.
Cool; a lot of people are very concerned about power usage and thus it’s probably the most important thing to know making a recommendation.
If you don’t care, then you’re on a reasonable path. I ditched all my server-grade stuff a while ago for a single desktop build becase, well, I got tired of screaming computers, but your choice in server is decent at the price.
I would say, though, if you have NO experience in server hardware, expect to run into a bunch of oddities inherent in server platforms - they’re simliar but not exactly the same as what you’d find in consumer hardware in terms of hardware support but if all you want is computer + lots of drives + network access, then it’s probably not going to end up with any stupid things that break what you’re trying to do.