Been on offer many times before but this is the cheapest I've yet seen it without cashback and this time it comes with a 500gb HDD. A cracking little box if you don't need the horsepower of the Xeon version.
Intel Pentium G3220 (3M Cache, 3.00 GHz), 4GB (1x4GB) 1600MT/s UDIMM Single Rank, 500GB LFF Non Hot-Plug Hard Drive, Intel 82579, 290W PSU, UK Power Cord, 1 Year Warranty
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srw985
11 Feb 173#19
The same people that have 30 minute 13Kw showers every morning and think their electric bill comes from phone chargers left turned on.
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jg213
10 Feb 17#1
I just wondering... as a home user, what kind of use could I have for a server? the thing that pops into my head is to use it as a NAS but are there other uses I'm not thinking of? and is it worth using a server like this as a NAS over a dedicated NAS?
mrew42 to jg213
10 Feb 172#2
It's cheaper than a NAS and could also be used as a PLEX server (as many do)
I'm waiting on the Xeon to be on offer again, but this is plenty of bang for your buck
uni to jg213
10 Feb 17#6
i use one as a desktop running windows 10. i added a couple of sata cards and squeezed a few more HDD's along with a SSD bootdrive and a £50 graphics card for HDMI out with audio (as the dvi audio is disabled, but works without sound with a cheap adapter). i replaced an old quad core 2.5ghz machine. i don't stress it too much but it runs on similar par with the old machine. once i find a good price i'll upgrade the RAM and i'll upgrade the CPU to something better in future
CampGareth to jg213
10 Feb 172#7
Perhaps it's best if others describe what they're using their home servers for. I use mine for VMs so the devices with low power processors can access something capable of heavy lifting. I also use them as routers using pfsense, for network storage, for torrents, for plex, for video transcoding (so many things are encoded by throwing huge bitrates at them and hoping for the best, with more processing time you can cut a 20GB movie down to 5GB say), for backups of other machines and uploading those backups to the cloud.
kester76 to jg213
10 Feb 171#15
You can set it up a router as well. Would destroy arm based routers.
CPU is a tad weak for transcoding, maybe one stream from Plex.
Cheap starter VM box to fiddle with?
Super price though.
mrew42
10 Feb 17#5
If no transcoding is required it can manage a couple of/3 streams
Depends on the client of course
robs1
10 Feb 171#8
I got one of these a while back and use it as a desktop (£79 after cashback I think it was). Added an old graphics card and runs Win 10 fine - a little faster than my old i5-750, quieter. But cannot sleep.
I also have a Xeon version (£175 after cashback a while back, courtesy of this forum again!) as a home server, couple of VMs (WHS for backups), Plex server, utorrent, Logitech Media server etc. Both have been rock solid so far.
mikeyw
10 Feb 17#9
Tempted but 4GB ram paltry and expensive to upgrade otherwise i'd have been in.
BogBeast to mikeyw
10 Feb 17#11
I have used non-ECC in my Xeon version of this with no issue
VladTheImpaler to mikeyw
10 Feb 17#13
FWIW you can get 4GB modules of compatible Kingston DDR3L PC3-12800 ECC RAM for £12.99 each from an eBay seller (search for KVR16LE11S8). I can confirm from my own experience these work flawlessly in the T20 alongside the presupplied Hynix module, and for the OCD types the timings are identical.
You'll max out at 16GB of course with all four slots populated, but 8GB/16GB sticks don't come cheap these days and you'll probably want the Xeon version in any case if you're thinking of running a fistful of VMs simultaneously.
DiscoCentral
10 Feb 17#10
I have seen this exact spec do 3 Plex streams and a couple of downloads at the same time with no problems. Though I don't think they were 1080p. Most devices and file formats don't need to be transcoded.
haileris
10 Feb 17#12
Heat but been this price before. Its kind of basic - but sometimes that is better than something more complex like HP. CPU may be expensive to upgrade (not looked yet), everything else is pretty cheap as far as I can tell
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Intel Pentium G3220 (3M Cache, 3.00 GHz), 4GB (1x4GB) 1600MT/s UDIMM Single Rank, 500GB LFF Non Hot-Plug Hard Drive, Intel 82579, 290W PSU, UK Power Cord, 1 Year Warranty
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I'm waiting on the Xeon to be on offer again, but this is plenty of bang for your buck
Cheap starter VM box to fiddle with?
Super price though.
Depends on the client of course
I also have a Xeon version (£175 after cashback a while back, courtesy of this forum again!) as a home server, couple of VMs (WHS for backups), Plex server, utorrent, Logitech Media server etc. Both have been rock solid so far.
You'll max out at 16GB of course with all four slots populated, but 8GB/16GB sticks don't come cheap these days and you'll probably want the Xeon version in any case if you're thinking of running a fistful of VMs simultaneously.