Comment on Starting out with Selfhosting
puck@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoOkay thanks. Damn shame manufacturers keep removing useful ports
Comment on Starting out with Selfhosting
puck@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoOkay thanks. Damn shame manufacturers keep removing useful ports
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I’d spend more time considering whether you want a mini-PC or not because it’s going to make storage expensive or difficult as youll either need to fork over a ton of money for a NAS and a bunch of matched drives or use one of those janky external DAS/storage boxes that could lead to you losing your entire storage pool.
What would work best (IMO) is a smaller tower PC with multiple drive bays. You can put whatever hardware you want in it, have SATA ports, PCI-E slots, plenty of ports, etc and upgrade/expand things as needed. You can also use mismatched drives in a setup like this with something like SnapRAID meaning you can use the stuff you already have without spending a ton of money. The hardware doesn’t need to be too powerful for your requirements. A modern Intel CPU will handle transcoding with Jellyfin extremely well and you can also use this with Frigate for your security camera footage. A decent amount of RAM isn’t bad either.