So I’m going to be getting a new housemate soon, and they will most likely take the room that’s housing my dell r420 and rack. It’s currently running proxmox and hosting a jellyfin instance that I and a few friends/family members are using.
I’d like to move the server to another area, but cooling and noise requirements are making this an issue. I was thinking about clustering a bunch or raspberry pi’s that I have sitting around to try and come up with something like a replacement, but I can’t get my head around moving my storage off local disk to a san that won’t have a fibrechannel connection to my compute. Should I be looking at other SBC types, or should I just invest in renovating to build a new suitable spot for my hardware? What would you do?
EDIT: I’m hosting more than jellyfin, but this is the app I’m worried about - everything else can make do with a slower storage-compute connection.
Consider a NUC or P51, more performant than RPI and super efficient!
I use three nucs and 10gig thunderbolt to cat6. 10gig switch to a qnap using iscsi. It’s super fast. Alternatively you could use vsan if you use VMware as ylir hypervisor. Which is also fast.
If you want to be super quiet… an array of Macbook Airs!
Have an MSI Cubi - very similar to a NUC - cannot recommend enough. Very low power consumption, more powerful than raspberry pi and runs X86/AMD64