Submitted 1 day ago by Peluri96@feddit.org to selfhosted@lemmy.world
Hello everyone,
i am thinking about getting a ugreen DH4300, however I don’t trust the company with their is so I am thinking about installing something like OMV on it. Has anyone here done that to this line of machines? I found no one saying anything about this online.
On another note. Currently I have a raspberry running my services. Would it even worth it to get that ugreen? Or should I just upgraded my pi with some hats or a DAS?
Looking at the price of that Ugreen DH4300 it’s about 30% more than I paid to build my own server (Ryzen 5 3400g /w 16gb ddr4). If you can get second hand ddr4 for a decent price it’ll probably still be a cheaper option and allows you to do your own maintenance/repairs in the future.
I was thinking about that as well, but I energy costs are a concern for me. May I ask how many watts your setup needs?
My server is usually between 30w-40w (that’s about 20-25p per day electricity cost in the UK).
That’s with the aforementioned processor/ram,a Gigabyte A520M motherboard, 1 case fan, the stocker cooler, a 120gb 2.5" SSD, 2 4TB 3.5" HDDs and 1 8TB 3.5" HDD (all drives always spinning).
It’s running OpenMediaVault as OS and 5 docker containers 24/7 (Flatnotes, FreshRSS, Kavita, qBittorrent and RecipeSage). Other than that I use it for media access from a MiniPC running Debian w/ Kodi accessing it via SMB (the server doesn’t transcode).
Looks like it has an ARM CPU, a RK3588. Similar ballpark to a Pi 5 in CPU performance.
Installing another OS would be technically possible but not easy, you’d need a Linux kernel with the RK3588 drivers already in it. Then there are differences between it and other RK3588 SBCs that could cause problems.
Much like you wouldn’t want to install anything other than raspbian on a Pi, you’d be best off with ugreen’s OS even if others are technically possible.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| SBC | Single-Board Computer |
| SMB | Server Message Block protocol for file and printer sharing; Windows-native |
| SSD | Solid State Drive mass storage |
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I have one of their devices with an intel CPU. I didn’t even boot the OS. Just popped in the firmware and told it to boot proxmox. But it’s an i5 with 32GB RAM so a different scenario than you’re thinking of.
mastod0n@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
If that helps I just got a Aoostar WTR Pro (Ryzen version) to replace my NAS. But I had 2x 16GB RAM left so that was pretty cheap for a rather powerful home NAS. With 8c/16T abf two 2.5Gb NIC it’s powerful enough to replace a small hypervisor.
BUT careful, while it has quickswap slots the hardware itself doesn’t support it.