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Stumbled Into Free Hpe Gen10 Gear… But Are These Actually Just E-waste Compared To My Current Mini Pcs?

Cleaning out old equipment racks at a business my family shut down, I realized some of the equipment I was about to toss were just 1U HPE gen 10 servers with a custom face plate. So I stumbled onto this stack of HW for free:

DL325 Gen 10 w/EPYC 7452 (32c/64t) 2x DL360 Gen 10 w/2x Gold 5220R (24c/48t ea) 26x 8gb 1r 2933 DDR4 ECC DIMM’s

Right now, my home Proxmox cluster is just 6x HP Gen9 1L PCs (i5-1400T/64GB RAM each).

Honestly, looking at the specs... My minipc cluster seems to stomp these is in ST passmark score, total ram, and energy efficiency, while basically matching these in MT? They sit silently in a closet burning maybe 75w total, vs powering up even one of these things would sound like a jet engine and burn more idle power than the entire cluster combined.

Am I missing something, or is there literally ZERO reason to keep these instead of just tossing the in with the rest of the e-wasting collection? Can these loud, power-hungry enterprise boxes actually do anything better than modern 1L Mini PCs, or are they completely obsolete for homelab use in 2026?

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Stumbled Into Free Hpe Gen10 Gear… But Are These Actually Just E-waste Compared To My Current Mini Pcs?

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