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Hey everyone, I'm looking to build a home server this year and wanted to get some opinions. I mainly want to use it for Plex media streaming, file backups, and maybe running a few Docker containers. Budget is around $500-600. Should I go with used enterprise gear or build something new? Any...

As someone who runs enterprise gear professionally, I'd say skip it for home use unless you have dedicated space and don't care about power bills. The R720 is a great server but it'll easily pull 150-200W at idle. At $0.15/kWh that's over $200/year just in electricity. The N100 route pays for...

+1 for the N100 recommendation. I'm running Proxmox on mine with Plex, Home Assistant, Pi-hole, and a few other containers. Total power draw is around 15W at idle. My electricity bill actually went down when I replaced my old server with this setup.