Next step on my self-hosting journey - eviltoast

Hello everyone.

Well, I’m here to ask for your insights and knowledge.

I have been self-hosting for almost a year already. Mainly proving things like Jellyfin, jellyseer and all the ARRs. All of this with a modest Raspberry Pi 4b using DietPi OS (which I think is great!)

Now, I want to move to the next stage, acquiring a more powerful machine.

What do you recommend for:

A) Mini PC. I want it to fast and with a huge storage (being able to increase it easily) B) SSD or HDD. Which ones. C) Operative System. I would like to stay on Linux.

Any other recommendations?

Finally, I have an adjusted budget, but pretend to save a bit more to have something nice :)

Thanks!

  • camilobotero@feddit.dkOPEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I was looking into Unraid OS, and it seems nice, and as you, I want to keep far away from subscriptions as much as possible.

    My doubt with HDD is their speed, high noise and energy consumption.

    Thanks for answering.

    • rambos@lemm.eeEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Dont worry about speed, HDD is fine for media storage. Power consumption and noise is what you should worry about 😉 get small SSD for OS since they are cheap

    • VinS@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Yeah, but it’s the storage capacity that is interesting. If you don’t need a lot of storage, go to the NVME/SSD option for sure. If you need more, price/capacity is still on the HDD side.