Hello I’ve been playing around with an old laptop as my home server for 1 year and I think that now it’s a good time to upgrade to something better since it feels a bit too slow.

I was thinking to buy a synology but I would prefer something custom because I hate that sometimes the manufacturers decide to abandon support or change all their terms of service.

My budget is about 1000$ USD, I’m looking for it to have at least 20TB and the option to later add a graphics card would be nice.

What do you recommend to buy? Also what software do you recomend? Also could it work with an n100 mini PC?

I’ve been using Ubuntu server, with docker containers for several services, but I mainly use it for Nextcloud

  • @Nutbolt
    link
    English
    31 month ago

    I just asked a very similar question over here: https://reddthat.com/post/29255208

    Where I had put together a proposed self build and looking for feedback on it.

    I’ve been running Unraid for a few years and it’s been great and really user friendly as well.