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Anybody here have experience building a home server for NAS/media serving? I've been looking into different options and hoping for a sanity check: it seems to me that getting a refurbished Dell PowerEdge R730XD is a better option than trying to build something from consumer parts. Compared to a consumer option it'll have better redundancy (ECC, dual PSU, drives on sleds), cheaper repairs, remote access, more cores for containers/vms, more memory, faster SAS hard drives, and can still be equipped with an NVMe drive for L2ARC and a GPU for video encoding. Am I missing something here, or is refurbished enterprise gear really the way to go?
That Dell is LGA2011v3, which means Haswell or Broadwell. They're 10 years old at this point, and are going to show their age.
How many containers/VM's are you looking to run? How many drives are you looking to use? What's your server hardware budget?