Comment on Help with home server plan
hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
- buy a cheap atx case with >= 4 3.5” drive bays
- buy a mini itx mb with like 4/5 SATA ports or however you want. Btw pcie SATA hbas exist
- throw a 6000 or preferably 9000 series and onwards intel chip in there. Anything before that will have poor efficiency
- 16 gb ram min
- put proxmox on it
hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
I’m in the US so I was able to snag a lot of stuff for like $150 usd off eBay. Though my first home server was actually a mini PC which was only like $100 and is super power efficient, only using like 10-15 watts. The biggest downside though of that is that is only has two NVME slots and no SATA, because it’s a mini PC.