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!

  • VinS@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Just found this N100 as NAS looks good.

    IPC N100 The same on Aliexpress

    My I5 is around 25$ by year, so it would need to run for 10 years to break even with the cost of the motherboard alone.

    But that’s incredible what they were able to do for low energy/compute.

    • Rehwyn@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Indeed. Sounds like in your case the i5 6500 you have is already suiting your needs, so really no need for more expense. For someone who doesn’t have something like that already though and needs to make a purchase, I’ve come around to generally recommending something like the n100 over a used older-generation processor simply because they cost very similar prices, but I feel you get a bit more with the more recent chips due to the modern HW encode/decode and low power use.