Comment on I want to build a Mini ITX PC for my home server, where do I start?
freebee@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Why not a second hand small “business” or office pc? There are so many on the market now because businesses are replacing because of windows 11, while the hardware runs perfectly fine with Linux for probably many years to come. Buying one of those is cheap and reduces e-waste.
nagaram@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
My “production” home lab is 3 Optiplex 3050 with i7-7700. They work great and are pretty low power.
freebee@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Fujitsu Esprimo here… 50 €, before the extra RAM, SSDs, … Relatively low power usage, lots of SATA, PCI slots, lots of USB ports… Works very well for all except transcoding. Could put a GPU but it would really make power consumption go up
SL3wvmnas@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Wouldn’t something like a T1000 (50w/8GB) be okay? I know I use a much older matrox card (30w?/ w/ even lower TDP) for this purpose. It’s not great, but it transcodes in hardware.