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Yeah but good luck building out homelab these days. Too expensive
Bro win 10 computers are essentially free thanks to microsoft's windows 11 requirements and any of them can keep up with transcoding. Add onto that any second hand sata drives and a sata controller than handles multiple parity drives for raid 5 and you've got a solution that is under the yearly subscription fee of ad-free netflix and a fun weekend project.
Where? I am not seeing any computers worth grabbing, even though I keep hearing people are dumping win 10 computers everywhere.
They are going to salvage... We (the MSP I work at) constantly throw out older systems. Too bad they have SSDs with data of potential clients and thus need to be destroyed according to GDPR...
I have seen a few pallet auctions (lots of 100 or more) but they are not going cheap.
This too :(