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Those people should just turn on Hyper-V inside Windows 10 Pro and go at it.
Actually it's more like after purchasing their gaming system, then they want a 208" OLED panel or ultra laser setup .... for $100.
Better point than mine
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I mean, I bought my Dell R710 for $150 ( a few years ago)... And it was a learning tool. I upgraded the ram to 96GB (Thanks [H] forum) for cheap, threw an older 255GB SSD in, got 6 spinners from the forums and set them up in raid 10. I don't have 10gb Ethernet, but have recently been looking. I have like $250 into this thing total and it does what i want no issues (Plex, Minecraft server, development server, file share server, and a few other odds and ends for use and/or testing). Not sure why you think looking to save money for a hobby is wrong. If I planned to run this in a professional environment, sure I'd spend a few more coin on things. For my house as something the learn and play with, who cares if someone doesn't want to fork over $6000. PS. My gaming PC (itx) build (I do more development than gaming) cost me about $400, but I have 5 desktops, one for each of my family, so my budget is very spread out. Given that my server doesn't do anything a basic desktop couldn't handle, I don't feel it appropriate to spend that much on it. Your priorities are your own, go ahead and blow $15,000 on your server, doesn't bother me one bit, so why does someone not wanting to spend that much bother you?
The point was not missed, I understand some expectations are unrealistic, but that doesn't mean I wasn't looking for as much as possible for as cheap as possible. I didn't expect to walk away with 10gbe for my $150 server, but that didn't mean I didn't try to find it. Sure expectations can be to high, but if you don't ask you'll for sure never get it.
Yes, but most people that build a "datacenter" I their home are doing it to tinker. You can run stuff slowly and still learn... It's really hard to have fun gaming at 10FPS. I mean, people prioritize and are willing to sacrifice on some things and not others. I mean, the last car I bought I paid $250 and have been driving it for the last 8+ months but spent over $1k on computer parts in that same time frame. Someone else probably bought a brand new Tesla for $60k and bought a $150 chrome book. They aren't related, it is meaningless to compare. Who cares where people want to save/spend their money, not sure why it's such a big deal to you guys what others feel like spending their [H]are earned cash on. Good on you if you have the money to spend on a $3k gaming system and a $10k home server. Others don't have the luxury and want to skimp, so the skimp on the one they feel they don't care as much about, but still want to dabble.
I understood the point, but you're talking about people who are just trying to get into this stuff and have no clue about prices. Most gamers know how much $ a GPU costs for a certain performance level and know how cheap they can get 5+ year old stuff for. They incorrectly assume server parts that are old are going to be dirt cheap and are seriously ignorant on the subject. Either way they aren't looking to spend lots of money to learn about something they are curious about trying out. They already know they like gaming and are willing to spend $ to play. This idea that they're fine spending money on gaming but don't want to spend a lot on a server is my point of contention. If you would have just said they are unrealistic and ignorant about server costs, then I agree. If you say because they are willing to spend $ on a gaming box but don't want to spend a lot on a server, then that's their prerogative. I was just saying that making a correlation between the two is silly as they have different purposes. I do agree with you that there are plenty of people with unrealistic expectations, but I still find nothing wrong with trying to get into an interest as cheaply as possible.
You can download 180 day trials for Server 2016 and 19 from microsoft.
I'm seeing if work will get me a VL MSDN license to tinker with so I can do some cloud servers and play.