3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 1 month ago
As said it should be fine unless pushing it with something like media files/jellyfin/plex/nextcloud. Nextcloud for example needs few resources but running anything nice would soon crawl. For the best advice a bit more of what you intend to self host would be nice
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Not really. The HP Elite 800 G3 and G4 mini make up 2/3 of my Proxmox nodes. The G3 currently hosts the VM that runs my entire media stack.
sakphul@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
From my personal experience I can totally agree. I have a HP Elitedesk with a i5-8500T and it runs multiple Jellyfin 4K HDR streams just fine with Hardware transcoding. And it does this while hosting other services like pihole, minecraft server, homeassistant in parallel. So for a regular family household these machines are good enough. Don’t know if it also works fine with more users (5+).
3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 1 month ago
notice the bit about pushing it… say transcoding all the streams etc. I don’t know what or how it will be used… thus saying should be fine. Everyones mileage varies no talk about network either, far too many variables to consider thus saying it should be fine!
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
6th gen Intel CPUs support quicksync. This is a non-issue for most self-hosters.
Here are some stats for my particular HP Elite 800 G3 Mini (i7-7700T/32GB RAM) over the last 18 months:
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Peak CPU usage is never more than 50%, and the vast majority of memory usage is just cached. Actual memory usage by each VM or LXC is far lower. The IO delays were user error (my NAS was having issues).
3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 1 month ago
Pretty pictures don’t always translate into another users experience though do they, but I appreciate you wanting to argue just because you can