Is this worth $352.80 CAD ($257.04 USD) (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by solonovamax@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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Is $352.80 CAD ($257.04 USD) ($251.64 + $101.16 shipping) worth it for these specs?
Specs:

2x E5-2640 v3
64GB DDR4
H730mini RAID

The description notes "Lid is not closed properly. See the picture", judging by the picture it seems that the lid is dented. But nothing that a pair of pliers can't fix. It also notes that it comes with no drives or caddies, nor any power cable/adaptor. But, those should be somewhat easy to get, so add on another like $50-ish to the price for those. I would also probably upgrade the RAM to 128gb.

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[-] solonovamax@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

I pay for bitwarden because it's so cheap, and yet I love what they offer. It's able to be selfhosted, which is why I'm willing to trust it. The service I pay for is protonvpn. I need a vpn just for a few generic things like bypassing locked down networks that prevent me from using ssh, and I trust protonvpn enough to use it for smth like that.

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