Take a look at HL15 from 45Drives. Many will rush to tell you it’s expensive for homelabers. Sure, but not that much. The retail price of the motherboard is 800 USD, CPU, PSU, NVME RAM around 400-500. That leaves you with the case which is 800 USD. This is a premium case, but probably 200 USD more than I would like it to be.
You will get a motherboard up to 1TB of ECC RAM, 10G networking, space for 15 HDDs, IPMI, a 4U case that will last forever, space for GPU, and a lot of expansion and upgradability possibilities via PCIe.
Dell, HP, supermicro, … all sell entry level servers.
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I would use an actual small server, with ECC RAM, and IPM. It would ideally be flexible so I can add/remove storage, RAM etc.
Do you have any recommendations and/or suggestions, homelab subreddit seems to recommend things like Dell R720.
Take a look at HL15 from 45Drives. Many will rush to tell you it’s expensive for homelabers. Sure, but not that much. The retail price of the motherboard is 800 USD, CPU, PSU, NVME RAM around 400-500. That leaves you with the case which is 800 USD. This is a premium case, but probably 200 USD more than I would like it to be.
You will get a motherboard up to 1TB of ECC RAM, 10G networking, space for 15 HDDs, IPMI, a 4U case that will last forever, space for GPU, and a lot of expansion and upgradability possibilities via PCIe.
Dell, HP, supermicro, … all sell entry level servers.