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As I rely more on my home lab server, I'm starting to worry more about it getting stolen. If someone breaks into my home, I think the server will be a pretty attractive target.

Do y'all just stick it in a closet? That seems not great for cooling...

One of my neighbors recently got broken into.

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[–] meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 68 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I doubt that a server would be an attractive target for common thieves. It's heavy, bulky and not immediately clear how well it would resell and how valuable it actually is. So yeah... Just have plenty of other more stealable things lying around I guess πŸ˜„

[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 6 points 10 hours ago

I guess it's a unique situation for everyone. My TV is huge, heavy, and requires at least 2 people (I used 3 people) to carefully move it out. Laptops are easy and fast to take. I don't think one would stop there though. I don't have gold n cash laying around like some other Lemmy users here, lol.

I'm not sure if I have anything else that's valuable. No tablets. Not much tools. Uh. What else do people have that is sellable?

My home server is a smallish ITX box. I could see some idiot thinking computers -> gaming -> expensive -> money.