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retiring the pigeon homelab (www.josephbellahcen.com)
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Trading the Pi(geon) for power

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[-] non_burglar@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

I went the other way; I had a Dell r430 and downsized to two hp elitedesk g4 mini. Together, they use less than half of the power of the 1u server.

But I am never satisfied, I'm sure I'll want to iterate again next year.

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