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		srmarm on May 10, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable home server? I use an old Wyse thin client that I picked up from ebay for ~£25. The built in hard drive was something silly like 32Gb so I just boot from an external SSD which gives me 1tb to play with. Low power, fanless and reliable. I have it running home assistant, nightly offsite backups from my co-located servers, some uptime monitoring and various other CRONy bits.

_fjb4 on May 10, 2022 [–]

My Wyse has served me well for years before I got a rack server, and even today it acts as my fallback server as well as a secondary file backup. I've modified the inside to fit a SATA SSD and have external HDDs connected over USB for file storage.

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