A friend of mine linked me to this seller earlier today. They have some pretty tempting deals, but I’ve never heard of them before.

Has anyone bought from them before and was it worth it?

  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    I don’t think I’ve ever had a quality brand PSU go out on me. Software RAID like MD or ZFS works fine on basically any hardware, and I wouldn’t use hardware RAID these days anyways.

    I used to worry about that stuff and use enterprise hardware, but its just so expensive for decent performance, and so power hungry.

    Like try and match even a budget i3-12100 or similar for single thread performance (needed for game servers mostly) and you really can’t with used enterprise gear. Plus that i3 has an iGPU that can handle a ton of transcoding tasks, and ML for stuff like immich search or frigate object detection. And it uses about 10w or less most of the time.