[Need advice] My first home server (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by Dioxy@programming.dev to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I need some advice on what hardware to buy for my home setup. I see a lot of posts talking about software, but not so much hardware. I would love to have a box I can buy and start setting up stuff.

A rack seems a bit expensive, my initial budget I feel is reasonable starting out is about $500-$800.

I’ve been looking at mini PCs, what are your thoughts on ASUS PN52? Just throwing that into the post to give a pin point of what I’m looking for.

I’m planning on hosting

Bitwarden
Nextcloud
Plex
Standard notes
Lemmy instance
Web server
Openresty

And need to be able to upgrade storage etc. for future proofing.

Thankful for all insights, tips, and suggestions!

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[-] variants_of_concern@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

I upgraded my gaming machine and used my old motherboard and cpu and loaded unraid on there, the i7 was great for plex transcoding and eventually i ran out of sata ports on my machine so I stuck a sata expander card in my one pcie slot, luckily the motherboard had two m.2 slots so I used that for cache. the case I used was a node304 and over time I added drives as I was running out of space. eventually I build a separate JBOD chassis to hold more drives

[-] LachlanUnchained@lemmyunchained.net 2 points 1 year ago

How’s the m.2 cache work. I’ve never encountered it.

[-] variants_of_concern@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

It works great I keep my containers in the cache so they operate faster, and when moving files to my server it gets placed on the cache initially so the transfer is quick, then later it will migrate into the slower hard drives on it's own time

[-] LachlanUnchained@lemmyunchained.net 2 points 1 year ago

How does one even set that up?

[-] variants_of_concern@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

well on unRaid you just click add a pool and you select which drives you want in it, then you just tell your shares to use that pool

[-] LachlanUnchained@lemmyunchained.net 1 points 1 year ago

Nice. I don’t use unraid. But super interesting. Gonna check it out.

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