Pricing on used mini PCs
Hi,
I'm rying to offload my homelab workload off my old Xeon server (Xeon E5-2699 v4 + RTX 2060 SUPER - 94GB DDR4, idles at 100W, costs me ~€300/yr). Idea is to keep the Xeon around for heavy ML stuff when i actually need it, but have a small form factor box running 24/7 for everything else.
The obvious move is a used Optiplex 7060 Micro, Lenovo ThinkCentre M920q or HP EliteDesk 800 G5 mini with an i7-8700T-ish chip + 32GB. But the current prices are abnormal. On ebay they go from 450-600€ and it seems too much for such an old hardware to be honest.
I ran prometheus for a week so i actually know what i need: 8 cores sustained / 22 peak, 8GB RAM avg / 23GB peak. Network barely uses 1GbE. So 6-8C + 32GB is plenty, 64GB if im paranoid. Runs ~15 docker containers (jellyfin, *arr stack, custom scrapers, small ML stuff, monitoring). The heavy ML inference/training stays on the Xeon + 2060 SUPER, only powered on when needed.
Questions:
Is €500-600 really normal for these in EU right now (any brand, theyre all similar)?
Have prices been dropping at all or just sitting flat? Worth waiting 3 months?