I aim to build a new homeserver lately.

Upon researching I found the RM550X by Corsair as a power efficient option under low loads.

The sad part is, that its available nowhere.

Does someone know a valid alternative, that does not cost more than the whole build?

  • king_weenusBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    for what it’s worth I picked up a used HP DL360 gen9 server and it came with dual 80 platinum power supplies, 128gb DDR, and dual Xeon 2680v4 (28c/56t) processors… no HDD but the cost was $150… I actually got the the server with for $100 and I then I got a pair of used processors of ebay for an extra $50…

    with a few SAS cables and my 4tb drives from my old server… I migrated everything over to this server running proxmox and I’m hitting 150w average which is less than my previous bare metal devices.

    It might not work for everyone, but I’m glad I decided to make the jump to enterprise hardware as I was looking for reliability and reducing my power load overall.