I would sell it. Everything I do is in containers, I have no need for 32/64, nor do I have the need for it to increase my electric bill.

DL360 ≠ DL380

But you’ve done a nice job of proving my point. You have a system that you have to hack together your drive storage, since it can’t accommodate 3.5" drives. You have have a system that has abysmal single thread performance. You have a system that has overall less compute power than a $240 midrange desktop CPU, yes uses over twice the power. You have a system that has no hardware media encoding.

I’ll add, I certainly don’t trust ILO to report accurate power draw. Measure from the wall. Each of your CPU’s pulls over 120w by themselves alone at 100% utilization. So either your weren’t pushing them, or your numbers are off. You should have been pulling 300w at a minimum.

Compressing SD DVD’s to 265 is a terrible suggestion. 265 should only be used for high def content, ideally 4K media.

White labels aren’t “rejected drives” 🤦‍♂️

For what you’re doing, I would suggest that you’re running a home server, not a home lab.

And with your workload, I would take a i3 12100 or a 13500 well before I stepped back in time to now almost decade old processors.

Empirical data; I went from dual 2660v4’s to a 12600k (now a 13500) and have better performance in every single metric, while also having the best transcoder for Plex (UHD 770), while saving $30/mo on my electric bill (200kwh/mo for the 2660v4’s, 80kwh/mo for the 13500 which is doing more with more disks than the 2660v4’s ever did).

I’ve been buying enterprise class WD HC530’s on ebay for $100. 🤷‍♂️

A pair of 2680v4’s certainly didn’t decrease your power usage unless you came from Nehalem’s.

My 2660v4’s in a DL380P G9 idled at 220w. Getting rid of that machine and moving to Alder Lake was the absolute best thing I did for my home server. The new system runs circles around those ancient Xeon’s and consumes less than half of the power. I went from averaging 200kwh/mo with the HPE to ~80kwh/mo. $30/mo savings paid for the entire upgrade to a better platform.