I need some advice on what hardware to buy for my home setup. I see a lot of posts talking about software, but not so much hardware. I would love to have a box I can buy and start setting up stuff.

A rack seems a bit expensive, my initial budget I feel is reasonable starting out is about $500-$800.

I’ve been looking at mini PCs, what are your thoughts on ASUS PN52? Just throwing that into the post to give a pin point of what I’m looking for.

I’m planning on hosting

  • Bitwarden
  • Nextcloud
  • Plex
  • Standard notes
  • Lemmy instance
  • Web server
  • Openresty

And need to be able to upgrade storage etc. for future proofing.

Thankful for all insights, tips, and suggestions!

  • DioxyOPEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    Thanks, I was thinking 2TB, so 4TB then! I’m considering a RAID1 setup, so the budget would need to accomodate that

    • LachlanUnchainedEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Isn’t there only a single drive slot? (Not including the m.2’s) Don’t think Raid is an option for the pn52.

      • DioxyOPEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        What do you think about running the OS and binaries on the SATA SSD, and storing the data on the M2’s? And having the M2’s in RAID1?

          • DioxyOPEnglish
            1•1 year ago

            It’s weird, because that’s my feeling too. It got suggested by customer support at a retailer when asking in their chat. I guess it’ll work, but feels backwards. I think I’m going with a NAS solution, and running the server without RAID