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Hi people,

I've the opportunity to get 4*Shuttle DS437 for a warm handshake.

This little bastards running completly passiv with 17Watts

Specs:

• Intel Ivy Bridge Celeron 1037
• Max 16GB RAM
• 2 Realtek 8111G Gigabit Ports
• WOL-Support
• 1*SATA 2.5 Bay
• Full Size MPCIE socket with m-SATA support
• Wlan-Module

My Idea is to use them as nodes for my Proxmox-Setup to improve my system a little bit more.

Today there is only on HP Compa SSF with following Specs:

• i7 2600
• 32GB RAM
• 256GB System SSD
• actually 2*2TB SSDs for Data (goal is 7x4TB SSDs)
• 2x 1Gbit Ports

right now the Proxmox is home for

• 1 Pihole-CT (as a backup for a raspberry Pi zero with LAN-HAT)
• 1 openLDAP CT
• 1 Windows 10 VM - productiv use
• 1 Debian VM as Docker
  • OpenOffice DOC-Server
  • PaperlessNGX
  • Portainer
  • Jenkins
  • GIT

Additionally I'm Using an HP Datavault as an Nextcloud-Server

And at last an 15 year old Synology NAS as my data grave.

I'm thinking to bring the Nextcloud server into the Proxmox enviroment and use the Datavault as my new data grave and retire the Synology NAS.

I want also add some more Linux-VMs and maybe a OSX VM for some Testing-stuff.

do you think it is worth the work to bring the 4 Shuttle into the network?