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MLG_No_Scope

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So i understand the difference and Understand what the cost can be for this. but all i want to know what i really need.

So first of all, i really want a local machine for game-hosting, game capture streaming, doing some software programming, so a powerfull machine can help me with that easier. data recovery, like a backup on an different machine.

So my concern is do i really need an workstation for this or am i okay with a server?

thanks in advance
 
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Servers and workstations have more data protection layers. ECC RAM, RAID continuos backups, GPUs with ECC RAM. often they have faster, and multiple drive interfaces like SAS. They can also be more flexible in their specifications. More options as far as speed, core count, CPU count, RAM capacity, # of drives, depnding on what's needed. But there can be performance hits for many of these features, and none of it's cheap. It seems to me for what you're doing a gaming PC with a good backup plan should work. A lot depends on how important the software programming your doing is. If you doing medical, or engineering where mistakes can be costly then you need the right tools.
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Literally any computer will do for this purpose. You aren't doing anything that would require special features so I see no reason why a workstation or server would be needed.
 
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jaslion

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Yeah I don't see any reason as to why a normal system wouldn't be able to do all of this. I've been running my nas, game hosting (just a minecraft server nowadays) and couple test webservers on an old amd athlon 5350 with vmware esxi to have a couple vms running and it does what it needs to do.
 
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Servers and workstations have more data protection layers. ECC RAM, RAID continuos backups, GPUs with ECC RAM. often they have faster, and multiple drive interfaces like SAS. They can also be more flexible in their specifications. More options as far as speed, core count, CPU count, RAM capacity, # of drives, depnding on what's needed. But there can be performance hits for many of these features, and none of it's cheap. It seems to me for what you're doing a gaming PC with a good backup plan should work. A lot depends on how important the software programming your doing is. If you doing medical, or engineering where mistakes can be costly then you need the right tools.
 
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