camiloboteroMar 22, 2024

Next step on my self-hosting journey

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Next step on my self-hosting journey - Feddit.dk

Hello everyone. Well, I’m here to ask for your insights and knowledge. I have been self-hosting for almost a year already. Mainly proving things like Jellyfin, jellyseer and all the ARRs. All of this with a modest Raspberry Pi 4b using DietPi OS (which I think is great!) Now, I want to move to the next stage, acquiring a more powerful machine. What do you recommend for: A) Mini PC. I want it to fast and with a huge storage (being able to increase it easily) B) SSD or HDD. Which ones. C) Operative System. I would like to stay on Linux. Any other recommendations? Finally, I have an adjusted budget, but pretend to save a bit more to have something nice :) Thanks!

Show threadVoroxpeteMar 23, 2024

A really nice budget option is an old Lenovo or HP mini PC. These days they make thin client style machines that are absolutely tiny, use about as much power as a small laptop, and still have decent spec.

Storage wise, there’s room to fit a 2.5" drive inside, and newer ones have NVME slots. You can buy them real cheap from a refurb supplier as businesses are offloading them all the time.

In the same vein, a HP, Lenovo or Dell small form factor tower PC will up your power consumption a little, but give you room for a couple of 3.5" drives as well as an SSD. That’s enough to look at putting in a 12TB mirrored RAID for some serious storage. You’ve also got low profile PCI slots, so you can fit a GPU for faster re-encoding in Jellyfin.

Show threadmmhmmMar 23, 2024
check university and government surplus. EBay is rich with good models too
Show threadVoroxpete
Good shout, yeah. I actually got mine for free because a friend who works IT in a different company snagged a few on the way to e-waste.
Mar 24, 2024 at 11:36amWeb