Oh BTW I found a pretty good deal on an elite mini 800 g9 with an i7 14700T cpu 64gb ram and a 4tb nvme.2 ssd the eth port has a 1Gbps line
https://www.ebay.com/itm/126560449790?this pc would pretty much be a perfect node for the next 5 years
That's a pretty good system. I like the size of it, too.
My latest build was a on 1u server, which can be cumbersome if you're not set up to house servers. Enterprise servers that have met their End of Life cycle get replaced regularly, and can be had for pretty darn cheap on Ebay. With a 256 megabaud internet connection I was able to sync the blockchain in under 6 hours. Syncing Monero still took a few days for some reason.
System: HP ProLiant DL360 G7 Server
Processors: 2x Intel Xeon X5650 @ 2.67GHz
Ram: 18x 4GB DDR3 (74GB total)
Storage: 4x 1TB SSD Raid 5 (2.8TB usable storage)
OS: Debian 12
The total build cost me about $330 a little more than a year ago.