Hey all

Been playing around with plex and the *arr’s for a while on my main desktop.

Now looking to set up a server to run plex, downloads, pi hole and eventually some other backup’s.

Unfortunately the PC I had laying around is 32bit and it seems like most things are removing support for that architecture if they haven’t already. Now I’m faced with the problem/opportunity of getting something new (to me).

But I’m struggling with the absolute sea of options out there and also don’t want to spend on brand new gear.

There’s quite a bit of server grade hardware floating around (like a Dell Poweredge server T410, 32GB ram, Intel Xeon E5645 2.13GHz Quad-core for $100AUD) or even rackmount gear (probably overkill but a boy can dream).

Or should I just get a consumer case with the most drive bays I can find and build from there?

Lowish power consumption is a priority, planning on running ubuntu or similar.

Any and all tips welcome! Thanks.

  • @vynlwombat
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    21 year ago

    Checkout Lenovo ThinkCentre m900 SFF (small form factor) or m900 tiny. They have i5-6500T cpus (T = low power), ram is upgradeable in both, and the SFF version has some expansion slots.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      Yep these are a great starter I got one about a month ago for $70 with everything included to go alongside my NUC and its been fantastic with proxmox running LXC containers