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Help for getting started with hardware (lemmy.today)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by theorangeninja@lemmy.today to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I dived into the selfhosting rabbit hole once again and again I am stuck at the hardware part. I'd like to start small-ish to make it realisable. I thought about a NAS (Openmediavault probably). First I wanted to do it on a Raspberry Pi with an external hard-drive but then I read USB connected drives are unreliable and so on. Mini PCs are too small to house internal drives so should I go with a (refurbished) business PC from ebay and add some drives to it?But they usually come with Windows 10, which I wouldn't need but makes them more expensive. I also have at least one old PC case laying around but no mainboard or CPU for it, if that info might be important. Thank you in advance for helping a noob out!

Edit: What I want to achieve: I would like a NAS and (separated) a server with some small services (pi-hole or adguard, syncthing, jellyfin (getting the data from the NAS), and so on). I thought about running the small services with docker on a RPi 4 and the NAS on a refurbished business PC with SATA drives in the case (I checked ebay and there are mainboards with 4 SATA III connectors and PCI so I could even add more SATA connectors). In a second moment a backup server (maybe with borg) would be a good idea but I could also do manual backups with an external USB HDD for the time being.

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[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

FWIW, I ran a Pi 2 with external (self-powered) USB drive for about 8 years as my main backup without issue (except that it was slow). I've just replaced it with a Pi 5 and TerraPi frame holding an SSD.

[–] theorangeninja@lemmy.today 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I also thought about using it as a backup too, but a backup usually has way less reads and writes than a NAS?

[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Maybe so. But it did process duplicity backups every week for hundreds of Gb, so it did a fair amount of work even though not constantly active.

[–] theorangeninja@lemmy.today 1 points 5 months ago

That's good to hear, maybe I should reconsider the Pi.