I’m thinking of picking up an old HP Microserver (gen8) and was wondering if it is a bad idea from a security standpoint.

I mean it’s only 10 years old - is there any exploit or something like that?

What about a N36L Microserver?

I’d probably run Debian headless on it.

I’d only use it for Syncthing and as a backup NAS.

UPDATE

Everybody made really good arguments against the microserver and I won’t be getting one. Thank you for your inputs

  • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Its not worth the energy cost, honestly. Plus you’ll be quite limited on memory, which reduces the potential uses. Any $200 minipc from the last 5 years would be a better buy.

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    4 months ago

    With hardware like that the main issues are power inefficiency and (often) lack of UEFI support making it hard to install modern distros on them.

    Otherwise there should be mitigations for the CPU issues, so unlikely that it will be a real issue from the security perspective.