Hey everyone. I’m looking to get started with a small home lab. I’m a sw developer and want to use Proxmox to have some tinkering environments and a pihole instance.
Is this a good deal to replace my few rpis?
Optiplex 5070
Intel i5-9500T
8GB RAM
256GB Storage
$175
Anything I should look out for when buying from Craigslist or Facebook marketplace?
I think it is slightly high on price, but not too bad. Enough RAM/storage to get started, but expect to add more of both. Virtual machines eat more RAM so using containers (LXC or docker) will allow you to run more in 8GB.