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Should I use dedicated hardware? (feddit.it)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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Hi everyone, Last month I finally managed to build my first SFF PC (Ryzen 7600 + AMD 6800). I'm also starting to learn about self-hosting and tinkering with it (the usual stuff: Jellyfin, pi-hole, nextcloud, VPN, torrenting etc.)

Thing is, of course, a server has to be always on, and I'm having trouble understanding if it can be reasonable to keep it always on or if it's too pricey and I should invest in a dedicated hardware.

My consideration: a Raspberry Pi seems like it's not enough powerfull after all. I've seen you can come up with an old i5 (4th to 6th gen) minipc with like 100/150 euros, but in not really sure it's gonna consume much less than my system. What do you suggest? What am I missing?

Thank you :)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I think an old minipc with a intel cpu with quicksync could be fine enough. I may be able to get for free an old notebook with an i3 8gb of ram. Maybe I can reuse that and save some money.

[–] rambos 3 points 11 months ago

Its best if you can get one for free. Integrated UPS is also nice :) even old is probably overkill, im running all services you mentioned +20 more and cpu is chilling most of the time. Good luck