April 26, 20206 yr Hey guys, I'm planning on upgrading from a HPE ProLiant Microserver GEN10 to a new machine running unraid. We have a small office with two workstations in the house where we also live. I need to run a Windows VM for a database server and i need a large fileserver. I'd also like to use some docker containers. I asked in the Reddit r/homelab and r/homeserver communities where i mainly got two options: buy an old r710 or build a ryzen self build. Either way i want to use 4x Ironwolf 4TB and 1 or 2 SSDs as cache devices. As i live in Germany, used server grade hardware is not that easy to get. I configured a R710 on this site where i would go with ~450€ for double Xeon E5649, 32GB RAM, HBA Controller Card, HDD Cages and Rails. With HDDs that's a price tag of ~1150€. The other way would be a self build based on the Ryzen 5 3600 i guess and maybe AsRock x470? But I'm also having a hard time finding a decent 2-4U rack chassis in Germany, they all seem relatively cheap to me and don't have many reviews. Which way should I go? Any tips? Thanks in advance and stay healthy everyone!
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