Comment on Help me choose hardware for my first custom setup
mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
The beginning of your post sounds like you are still looking at hardware to buy, but the later half seems like you already have the NUC?
If not I’d suggest looking at a used HP Mini, Lenovo Tiny, or Dell Micro ex-enterprise PC. They can be had very cheap off ebay, run with similarly low power demands but very capable devices. I run an HP 705 G4 mini Ryzen 5 2600GE with 16gb ram, 256gb SSD, cost me about $95 and averages about 15w
roydbt@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I haven’t bought any hardware yet, this is just what I am currently planning to purchase.
I’m kinda cautious about purchasing second-hand stuff from the internet, especially stuff like that. Any tips on how to approach that?
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I picked myself up a Asus NUC 13th gen I7, chose Proxmox as the OS and have about 35 services running via Docker Compose.
Everything runs beautifully.
mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
I only have my one anecdote to go off of, but if you are located in the US eBay is full of computer reseller postings and mine arrived in very clean condition. And eBay generally has pretty strong buyer protections.