The ECC stuff is like asking gearheads about motor oil.
You can absolutely do it. In a large production environment one of my teams used out of service thin clients (t620 iirc) to do some edge computing stuff. We also used t630s in a pinch to run ubiquiti controllers for temporary sites setup during COVID. They last forever and are surprisingly capable. The newer ones can handle 32GB ram and 1TB+ flash. The cpus are weak, but they don’t require cooling and sip power.
Just backup the locally generated work product if there is any.
Remember the “enterprise” nonsense is babble if you have a team who can think and operate outside the box. If you’re placing 1000 servers in dental offices nationwide, buy the HP server with the nationwide 24x7 support network. If you don’t need that, save the money.
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The ECC stuff is like asking gearheads about motor oil.
You can absolutely do it. In a large production environment one of my teams used out of service thin clients (t620 iirc) to do some edge computing stuff. We also used t630s in a pinch to run ubiquiti controllers for temporary sites setup during COVID. They last forever and are surprisingly capable. The newer ones can handle 32GB ram and 1TB+ flash. The cpus are weak, but they don’t require cooling and sip power.
Just backup the locally generated work product if there is any.
Remember the “enterprise” nonsense is babble if you have a team who can think and operate outside the box. If you’re placing 1000 servers in dental offices nationwide, buy the HP server with the nationwide 24x7 support network. If you don’t need that, save the money.
I am quite new to sysadmin, security, servers, networking, and so on.
Do you have any recommendations of materials (like books or videos) for these kinds of topics, e.g. how to optimize hardware