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[Question] Hardware recommendation (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Ongar@beehaw.org to c/selfhost@lemmy.ml

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Hey all, I want to host a small home server as a private vpn, torrent box, Jellyfin server, small lemmy instance and maybe photo backup.. I'm looking for a NAS box or something that would be power efficient and aesthetically pleasing enough for my living room that would be able to handle those tasks. I remember seeing an ad recently for a 2 bay NAS that also had room for 2 NVME. it looked kind of like a white volcano and it had a laptop grade cpu, which would be great I think. Unfortunately I can't find the product anymore, and to be frank I don't really know if that would be overkill for my use case. If anyone has any reccomendations I would love to hear them.

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[–] Zoe8338@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Please do add a tag to your post as stated on the sublemmy sidebar! Thank you. :)

[–] Ongar@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

oops! done!

[–] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've been looking into NAS boxes myself for my job. My colleague and I eventually landed on Synology's DiskStation DS420j for my purposes. However, I cannot yet recommend it, because this is still in the planning stage, and we're also running under the theory that we will be doing minor changes such as upgrading the RAM and so on.

However, this being said, if we didn't have the labor budget constraints to consider (humans are expensive), we would probably wind up going with a microATX case and motherboard and rolling our own.

[–] Ongar@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I considered rolling my own server with mitx, but I think the more integrated solutions would have better efficiency, no?

[–] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Energy efficiency? Perhaps. A general purpose computer will typically use slightly more energy than an equivalent appliance.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe: https://slrpnk.net/post/401231

[–] Ongar@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wow yep that's it. Bonus cool new lemmy instance. thanks friend!

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We are actually one of the "old" Lemmy instances that pre-date the Reddit exodus by more than a year ;)

[–] Ongar@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Ah well I meant new to me 😅 thanks for linking to your community, it seems like a nice place. Hope to see you around there!