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| ▲ | DaSHacka 15 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| > 12-year old hardware is only marginally faster than a RPi 5. A Dell R620 is over 12 years old and WAY faster than a RPi 5 though... Sure, it'll be way less power efficient, but I'd definitely trust it to serve more concurrent users than a RPi. |
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| ▲ | lucb1e 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > 12-year old hardware is only marginally faster than a RPi 5 My 14yo laptop-used-as-server disagrees. Also keep in mind that CPU speeds barely improved between about 2012 and 2017, and 2025 is again a lull https://www.cpubenchmark.net/year-on-year.html I'm also factoring in the ability to use battery bypass in phones I buy now because they are so powerful, I might want to use them as free noiseless server in the future. You can do a heck of a lot on phone hardware nowadays, paying next to nothing for power and no additional cost on your existing internet connection. A RPi 5 is that same ballpark |
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| ▲ | phantom784 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Plus the fact that it's been running for 5 years. Does that mean they bought 7 year old hardware back then? Or is that just when it was last restarted? |
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| ▲ | cvwright 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Unfortunately you can’t even get the RAM for $400 anymore. |
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