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

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Pn52 is not a bad choice. Very upgradeable. Gigabit networking is probably all you’d need.

The heat may become a problem. But I dont run one so wouldn’t know.

Run proxmox on it. Your sweet 👍

What size drives are you thinking if you plan to host a plex server? Whatever you think, I’d recommend doubling it.

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

Thanks, I was thinking 2TB, so 4TB then! I’m considering a RAID1 setup, so the budget would need to accomodate that

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

Isn’t there only a single drive slot? (Not including the m.2’s) Don’t think Raid is an option for the pn52.

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

What do you think about running the OS and binaries on the SATA SSD, and storing the data on the M2's? And having the M2's in RAID1?

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

I don’t know why. But it makes me uncomfortable.

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

It's weird, because that's my feeling too. It got suggested by customer support at a retailer when asking in their chat. I guess it'll work, but feels backwards. I think I'm going with a NAS solution, and running the server without RAID

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

I started with a nas. Did me well for a long time.