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[Question] Hardware recommendation (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey all, I want to host a small home server as a private vpn, torrent box, Jellyfin server, small lemmy instance and maybe photo backup.. I'm looking for a NAS box or something that would be power efficient and aesthetically pleasing enough for my living room that would be able to handle those tasks. I remember seeing an ad recently for a 2 bay NAS that also had room for 2 NVME. it looked kind of like a white volcano and it had a laptop grade cpu, which would be great I think. Unfortunately I can't find the product anymore, and to be frank I don't really know if that would be overkill for my use case. If anyone has any reccomendations I would love to hear them.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've been looking into NAS boxes myself for my job. My colleague and I eventually landed on Synology's DiskStation DS420j for my purposes. However, I cannot yet recommend it, because this is still in the planning stage, and we're also running under the theory that we will be doing minor changes such as upgrading the RAM and so on.

However, this being said, if we didn't have the labor budget constraints to consider (humans are expensive), we would probably wind up going with a microATX case and motherboard and rolling our own.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I considered rolling my own server with mitx, but I think the more integrated solutions would have better efficiency, no?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Energy efficiency? Perhaps. A general purpose computer will typically use slightly more energy than an equivalent appliance.