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

  • ITGuyLeviEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I know everyone has their own opinions of them but I’m a fan for what they are. Right now I have 3 of them that I’ve gathered over the years (one with ESXi hosting my firewall, one with TrueNas for backups, and one with ProxMox for a few LXCs).

    Overall, they are great little boxes, I had three of them in my living room for years when I was renting and they were pretty much completely silent after boot. The dual core celeron that comes with it works, but can be upgraded to a Xeon e3-1265l v2 (quad core + HT) for $25-50. RAM I think maxes at 16GB, but if you want a box to run a dozen light services or so, its not a bad box (insanely quiet and pretty power efficient).