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What Is A Good Sub $300 Computer I Can Use For A Server? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 month ago by qwestjest78@lemmy.ca to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I have a refurbished Lenovo Thinkcentre that I was running Truenas off of. Everything was working great, but it got hit with a power surge and after lots of trouble shooting it appears the motherboard is fried and I don't trust my ability to soder and fix it.

No now I need to upgrade my setup. Wondering what is a good sub $300 computer I can order that will run Jellyfin, Immich, and a few light services off of? With Truenas you seem to need two SSDs. One to boot and one to run apps, so it seems like a mini PC will not work.

I have a seperate HDD drive bay with a few hdd's in it full of shows and picture. Just need a PC to run my services.

I would prefer something I can order off Amazon or can be shipped quickly so I can get back up and running again.

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[–] krnhotwings@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

I have one dedicated for opnsense, which runs my firewall/router. I used to use a Ubiquiti ER-Lite, but its compute power was a little lacking for certain features I wanted running. One of the niceties of running pfsense/opnsense on a "real" computer is that it just runs faster and boots faster after a software update, haha. I also have tailscale on it so that I can remotely access my home network.

Opnsense can technically be run as a VM on proxmox, but it's generally not advised to do so. The proxmox machine is running unifi network for my ubiquiti wireless AP, adguard home, home assistant OS in a VM, and frigate in a VM, but I've been thinking of consolidating the various container services and VMs into just all containers running on a uCore OS installation instead of proxmox.