I mean, mine is a dumpster dive. It’s an old small form factor office pc. Tore out the guts and stuck them in a silver stone case with a SATA backplane and loaded it up with refurb hard drives.
Previous iteration was a broken g5 tower case I got for free, hacked with an old server motherboard that had been decommissioned at work.
So, definitely spent money on it with the additions, but all my home servers have started out with free spare parts.
Mine is my dad’s old 2014 Mac mini with a bunch of USB hard drives hanging out of it.
Ideal? Probably not.
But it mostly works pretty well. All I’ve bought specifically for it are the NVME adapter so I could drop my wife’s old 256gb M.2 drive in, a 1tb SATA SSD for the internal bay, and a 3.5" enclosure for a 2tb HDD I had knocking about.
I mean, mine is a dumpster dive. It’s an old small form factor office pc. Tore out the guts and stuck them in a silver stone case with a SATA backplane and loaded it up with refurb hard drives.
Previous iteration was a broken g5 tower case I got for free, hacked with an old server motherboard that had been decommissioned at work.
So, definitely spent money on it with the additions, but all my home servers have started out with free spare parts.
Oh, I do of course run Debian.
Mine is my dad’s old 2014 Mac mini with a bunch of USB hard drives hanging out of it.
Ideal? Probably not.
But it mostly works pretty well. All I’ve bought specifically for it are the NVME adapter so I could drop my wife’s old 256gb M.2 drive in, a 1tb SATA SSD for the internal bay, and a 3.5" enclosure for a 2tb HDD I had knocking about.
And she’s rock solid. Mostly.