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Mini pc for home server? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by Jokulhlaups@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Would you recommend to use a RPi 5 or a second hand Lenovo mini pc (i3 6100t, 8gb ram) or something else?

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[–] undefinedTruth@lemmy.zip 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I built a home server based on an Intel N100 motherboard a while ago. I've put proxmox on it and run my Home Assistant installation, Nextcloud, several other stuff and even my router as an OpenWRT VM!

I chose to go the N100 motherboard route mainly due to the flexibility it offers. But you can just buy a N100 based NUC and you get effectively the same performance and incredible low power consumption.

I would recommend against the Pi 5. It is way underpowered in my opinion. Plus with a x86 system you just have a lot more software compatibility.

[–] Laser@feddit.org 2 points 10 months ago

Similarly here. Have an Odroid with that platform, it wasn't cheap but it came with several advantages:

4 SATA ports on addition to the M2 slot
Intel QSV
2 x 2.5 Gbit Ethernet (I only have gigabit at home though)

Very powerful machine for the power usage, I ran a really old Athlon before though (from 2010 or so that I retrofitted with 16GB RAM) that did most stuff just fine. But I wanted some transcoding and also possibly a smaller case.

I run everything bare metal though.