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Getting in a pickle over hardware (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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I'm moderately tech savvy, a little experience with most OS and comfortable with hardware. I've got some basic things working in Docker. I want to start self hosting my photo backup, Bitwarden, Jellyfish, Sonarr and Radarr, Pi hole, Home Assistant and replace Dropbox. But the more I dive into the hardware and setup the more muddled I'm finding myself.

I'm very concerned about power draw so the lower the consumption the better. I do want some parity, though I'm willing to I introduce that once it's set up. I'm not particularly concerned with transcoding but I guess it'd be a nice bonus.

Is a QNAP alone valid? Or perhaps I'm better off with a Pi and my huge GDrive while I learn? Or a NUC with better transcoding capability? I want to access my data internally, stream content to a Chromecast with Google TV.

My instinct is both a NUC and a separate NAS but I'e love it if anyone has some insight.

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m a big raspi fan but I think the Pi 4 will be overpowered for your needs.

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

You mean underpowered?

[–] tburkhol 2 points 1 year ago

Not the person you replied to, but the only thing on your list with real processing requirements is Jellyfish, if you do transcoding. My pihole uses like 0.3 CPU on a pi4, HA 0.1, zwave2mqtt less than that. You're more likely to run into bandwidth issues with sonarr/radarr/dropbox, because pi's just can't push data to disks very fast, but if you're doing downloads in the background, maybe that's no a big deal.

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

Sorry, I did mean under powered.