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Archive for June 22nd, 2026

SwiftOnSecurity on Twitter: “If you are building a home lab everything you need is on eBay and costs around $200. A SSD SATA drive in a off-lease Optiplex delivers more IOPS than an $100k server with a RAID6 we ran DBs on 10 years ago….”

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/22

I used to buy off-lease HP gear some 15 years ago. Nowadays I usually buy Dell 1 liter PCs for desktop usage (see my series on 3060/5060/7060) and got reminded that they also have good workstation gear that you can rackmount:

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Posted in Dell Optiplex 3060/5060/7060 Micro, Hardware, HP XW6600, LifeHacker, Power User | Leave a Comment »