So reading through the article, he really didn't know what he was doing and should probably have asked /r/homelab for assistance before he just tore ass into building this thing.
He got mocked for building using consumer gear (he didn't, the poster, while standoffish, did bring up good points). Then he goes and buys parts piecemeal from eBay and builds again...
I bought a Dell PowerEdge R610 w/ 48 GB of RAM, two quad-core CPUs, and two 146 GB 10K RPM drives for $229 on eBay about 3 or 4 years ago. That system still functions as my development server for testing today, and will likely have enough oomph to do the job for another year or two.
At which point I'll buy a Dell PowerEdge R730 with 192 GB of RAM, dual 8-to-12 core CPUs, and a few SSDs for $500 or so... maybe even cheaper.
I asked a lot of questions from IT friends of mine who work in enterprise before I purchase any enterprise-grade gear, and I also watch a lot of Level1Techs (since Wendell likes to repurpose enterprise stuff for home use as well) to get new ideas for cool projects.
You go halfass into any domain without even bothering to ask the journeymen and experts and then post about it on their own board / subreddit, yeah, you probably will get made fun of.
He got mocked for building using consumer gear (he didn't, the poster, while standoffish, did bring up good points). Then he goes and buys parts piecemeal from eBay and builds again...
I bought a Dell PowerEdge R610 w/ 48 GB of RAM, two quad-core CPUs, and two 146 GB 10K RPM drives for $229 on eBay about 3 or 4 years ago. That system still functions as my development server for testing today, and will likely have enough oomph to do the job for another year or two.
At which point I'll buy a Dell PowerEdge R730 with 192 GB of RAM, dual 8-to-12 core CPUs, and a few SSDs for $500 or so... maybe even cheaper.
I asked a lot of questions from IT friends of mine who work in enterprise before I purchase any enterprise-grade gear, and I also watch a lot of Level1Techs (since Wendell likes to repurpose enterprise stuff for home use as well) to get new ideas for cool projects.
You go halfass into any domain without even bothering to ask the journeymen and experts and then post about it on their own board / subreddit, yeah, you probably will get made fun of.