[Kubuxu]

For 8+ bays you just need a SAS HBA card and one free PCI-E slot. Not to mention that many motherboards will have 6+ SATA ports already.

If anything, 2nd hand AMD gaming rigs make more sense than old servers. I say that as someone with always off r720xd at home due to noise and heat. It was fun when I bought it during winter years ago, until summer came.

[ThatPlayer]

I've been turning off my home server even though it's a modern PC rather than old server hardware because it idles at 100W which is too much. Put a Ryzen 7900X in it.

Not sure if it's not properly doing lower power states, or if it's the 10 HDDs spinning. Or even the GPU. But also don't really have anything important running on it that I can't just turn it off.

[kllrnohj]

> For 8+ bays you just need a SAS HBA card and one free PCI-E slot. Not to mention that many motherboards will have 6+ SATA ports already.

And what case are you putting them into? What if you want it rack mounted? What about >1gig networking? What if I want a GPU in there to do whisper for home assistant?

Used gaming rigs are great. But used servers also still have loads of value, too. Compute just isn't one of them.

[ssl-3]

> And what case are you putting them into?

Maybe one of the Fractal Designs cases with a bunch of drive bays?

> What if you want it rack mounted?

Companies like Rosewill sell ATX cases that can scratch that itch.

> What about >1gig networking?

What about PCI Express card? Regular ATX computers are expandable.

> What if I want a GPU in there to do whisper for home assistant?

I mean... We started with a gaming rig, right? Isn't a GPU already implicit?