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Moving off of heavy hardware (self.selfhosted)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by databender to c/selfhosted

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So I'm going to be getting a new housemate soon, and they will most likely take the room that's housing my dell r420 and rack. It's currently running proxmox and hosting a jellyfin instance that I and a few friends/family members are using.

I'd like to move the server to another area, but cooling and noise requirements are making this an issue. I was thinking about clustering a bunch or raspberry pi's that I have sitting around to try and come up with something like a replacement, but I can't get my head around moving my storage off local disk to a san that won't have a fibrechannel connection to my compute. Should I be looking at other SBC types, or should I just invest in renovating to build a new suitable spot for my hardware? What would you do?

EDIT: I'm hosting more than jellyfin, but this is the app I'm worried about - everything else can make do with a slower storage-compute connection.

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[–] venoft 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Since you basically only run Jellyfin, I would just convert a desktop into a server.

Choose one with a power efficient CPU. And depending if you need a lot of transcoding an external GPU or even integrated GPU.

Mine is idling most of the time with only the bare minimum of fan speed. If it wasn't for the spinning disks it would be completly inaudible.

To top it off it's only 30W idle. If you split the utility bill with your housemate I'm sure they'll appreciate that.

[–] databender 2 points 1 year ago

Sorry, should have been clearer here; the only application I'm worried about is jellyfin; I also run a fileshare, domain controller, a git instance, and like to have a lab environment to build and tear down servers. I'll edit the original comment to clear that up.