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While it is quite tempting to go down the high-performance road, one must be careful. These servers have heavy power consumption, are noisy, etc. The golden rule is to scale the server to the needs of the lab, and not the other way around. Doing it in such a way allows one to | While it is quite tempting to go down the high-performance road, one must be careful. These servers have heavy power consumption, are noisy, etc. The golden rule is to scale the server to the needs of the lab, and not the other way around. Doing it in such a way allows one to take the most out of the hardware, instead of having a 24-core, 300GB RAM behemoth running only 8 light VMs and sinking lots of unneeded power. | ||
There are lots of advantages by going with a pre-built server: | There are lots of advantages by going with a pre-built server: | ||
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However, there are also some cons: | However, there are also some cons: | ||
* Rack-mounted servers are noisy and power | * Rack-mounted servers are noisy, and power hungry | ||
* They might throw a fit if using non-OEM parts (the microservers do this) and/or have non-standard parts (PSU, fans, headers, etc). | * They might throw a fit if using non-OEM parts (the microservers do this) and/or have non-standard parts (PSU, fans, headers, etc). | ||
* New servers outside the SMB level are quite expensive. | * New servers outside the SMB level are quite expensive. | ||
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Everything considered, they are a solid choice, however | Everything considered, they are a solid choice, however care must be taken to choose the appropriated hardware. | ||
== Personal computer == | == Personal computer == | ||