I have a 16GB ram HP t630 running vaultwarden (bought for £50) and some other stuff and a HP ProDesk 400 G5 16GB ram (bought for £100) running jellyfin & immich. They're great. I also have a Wyse 3040 that I intend to run as pihole, just haven't got round to it yet.
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qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
If you dont need an sbc or something arm based mini pcs/thin clients/laptops work well. I run redlib, yamtrack and a monero node on hp t630 w/ 16GB ram (bought before the rampocalypse for ~ $60) and a torrent seedbox/streaming nas on wyse 3040 (~$10). Here’s a great website about thin clients www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/hware/hardware.shtml
determinist@kbin.earth 3 days ago
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Thanks - I think a NUC/thin client will be how I end up going. I just didn’t even think about them in terms of meeting the criteria of “small thing I can leave running and not care about.” I think I still have an old laptop my partner used to use that would work, which might be my tester.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
I was looking at bee-link a while back, shame prices have gone through the roof on everything though.
snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Yeah I grabbed a… Mele quieter or something back in November to replace the noisy greenpower thing I’d had for about 2 years and I got a bit more back than what I spent on it, looking at the mele tiny pc today and it’s doubled in price since I got it. So far it’s been nice though, passive cooling unlike the noisy fan on the other one.