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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

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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°.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.