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.

  • nii236
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    81 year ago

    Consider a NUC or P51, more performant than RPI and super efficient!

    • netburnr
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      41 year ago

      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.

      • nii236
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        21 year ago

        If you want to be super quiet… an array of Macbook Airs!

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      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