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And: they have a crash cart (keyboard, mouse and display) and battery backup built-in. An old laptop is perfect for starting a homelab. The only major downside I can think of, and as another commenter already mentioned, is the limited storage (RAID) options.





A lot of older 17" laptops had dual HDD slots.

Or DVD drives in which you could add a disk caddy.

Ah yes, optical drives were very common for a while.



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