Basically what it says in the title. I did a lot of searching in Internet. I think small form factor computers are mt best bet. But I still feel they are costly for my purpose.

I am going to be running some ansible playbooks periodically on the machine. SBCs i looked at either had very high specs for this use case and thus higher price or they had other fratures i dont want like - wifi, graphics card etc.

I am preferring enterprise hardware because this would eventually be used in business where people will not settle for anything less.

  • comador @lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    You can basically get rack mount level performance from:

    • Supermicro SuperWorkstation Tower Servers
    • Lenovo Thinkstation P Series Server Towers
    • HPE ML series Tower Servers
    • Dell Precision Tower Workstations

    In your situation, I’d be looking at ebay, serversupply, or other used hardware resalers that offer 2 generations back hardware. Used DDR4 based systems are abundant and cheap enough, go that route.

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      8 months ago

      Thanks for these suggestions. Will look into them. Hopefully they are still manufactured and supported by the vendors.