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For a couple years now I have been running a headless (broken) IBM Thinkpad T23 laptop as my home server. It has served it’s new function admirably. Initially, I had thought that maybe there would be a heat issue so I stuck it on a fan plate, but it has been running 2 years with zero problems as the (almost) entirety of my home infrastructure.

Queue to today. I bought a couple new servers. It’s high time really. I wanted to get something that I could run some virtual infrastructure with. I do a lot of VM use at work and it’ll be nice to be able to do some testing at home as well, not to mention being able to reap the rewards of running my infrastructure on a vm (easy bare-bones box backups, snapshots, box creation and testing with no additional hardware laying around, etc.)

The servers I found are in geeks.com. They have 2 64 bit 2ghz opteron procs, 4gb of ram and 120gb hdd. All that for a measly $120. I just couldn’t beat it, so had to buy a couple. I can’t imagine they will be there long, so if you are in the need, you better hurry on over there. Look at the bottom of the desktop listings for the servers. My only hope is that they will not sound like jet-engines or hairdryers while they are running 🙂