Only use jellyfin. Have a list of things want to update… but it works for now.

Yes that is a laptop usb cooler used as supplemental placebo cooling. Also a pc fan I have propped up against the hard drive feeding into the pi.

Can’t recall last time used the ps4 or switch. But they’re there

  • qazEnglish
    11•2 hours ago

    Old setup:

    Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 that I bought refurbished for ~€130

    • i5-6500T (Passmark score 4792)
    • 8GB RAM
    • 512GB SATA SSD + 128GB SATA SSD (completely used for swap)
    • Buffalo DriveStation™ HD-WLU3 that I bought second hand for €10
    • 2 × 2TB SATA HDD’s in RAID 1
    • ~20W

    Old setup

    New setup:

    Custom build

    • ASUS Prime N100I-D D4 (Passmark score 5501) (~€100)
    • 16GB RAM - Crucial CT16G4SFRA32A (€28)
    • 512GB SATA SSD
    • 4 × 4TB SATA HDD’s in RAID 5 using mdadm (€160)
    • M.2 NVME to SATA 6x (ASM1116 for C-states) (€17)
    • 17.8W

    New setup

    (Not the Proliant Microserver Gen8 on top, the device below)

    The antennas are from a Sonoff Zigbee dongle and a bluetooth dongle for Home Assistant.

    I’ve mostly focused on power usage, price, and reliability since I’m a student and don’t want to spend a month’s worth of income on a “home lab”.

    It’s running the following:

    • Forgejo
    • Grafana
    • Home Assistant
    • Jellyfin
    • Kopia
    • Nginx-proxy-manager
    • Paperless NGX
    • Photoprism
    • Syncthing
    • TimescaleDB
    • Uptime-kuma
    • Vaultwarden: As backup
    • Watch Your LAN
    • Arr stack (currently disabled)
    • Homebox: Still up for testing, like it has been for the past couple months. It’s a great concept but the execution ain’t great (does anyone happen to know an alternative?)

    It’s using about 10% CPU and is running below 40°.

    • @QuantumDuckEnglish
      3•2 hours ago

      I have three of those Proliant Microserver Gen8’s. Two of them are part of my Proxmox cluster, and the other one is waiting for me to install Proxmox on it.

      • qazEnglish
        1•1 hour ago

        I’m currently just using it for occasional backups (it has 12TB storage) since the power consumption (60W idle when in the BIOS) is just unreasonable.