Will this be overkill or otherwise not recommended for someone who is new and just starting to learn?
My goal is to have something I can grow into, but initially I'd like to host a few VMs, game servers, and a have place to store content. I'd also like to host a PLEX server in the future as well but might buy a separate piece of hardware for it specifically down the road. Thanks in advance for taking the time to help a newbie!
You can get an R730 for an extra hundred.
Won’t have drives but I see one with 24cores and 128gb ddr4 on amazon.
I have one. It’s loud. It’s power hungry.
Figured out what you’re trying to run. I turned mine off and am keeping it to the side for now. I have a 10500 with 64gb for esxi running most of my apps and it saves on power big time. For storage I just use a synology but have a power edge t330 I’ve been playing with. Even the t330 is power hungry according to kilawatt.
You can quiet the fans using IPMI.. and mine pulls about 150w loaded with 10T drives and a GPU for Plex transcoding
What CPU is in it? And I guess my spinning drives don’t shut down all the way I have around 100W idle with an AMD 6750GE and a HBA for 6G and 12G SAS each.
Dual E5-2670s. (8 core, 2.6ghz). I also have a broadcom dual port 10gb LOM and an emulex dual port 8gb Fibrechannel card in it with their respective optics
WTH everyone has lower power usage with ancient equipment 🤣
I just checked and I stand corrected. 325w but I have a BUNCH of VMs going on it.
Yeah, not fair to compare with my idle numbers. It’s not running because of solar Power shenanigans