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Want to build a small home server/lab, where to buy stuff? (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 months ago by Packet@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

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Want to make a small home server/lab, get jellyfin QBittorrent and other plugins on it to have media hosted by myself, also to make my own Inviduos instance because a lot of them are being targeted right now, shifting IPs works but they still persist.

Have a rasppi4 that I used for some projects, but I think for the amount of storage that I want to put initially and then upscale would be too hard on that little thing. Plus transfer speeds. Also the processing power probably wouldn’t be great for them big movies.

Would want to get a case with the big HDD/SSD cage, some motherboard, a chip that can handle 4K processing and then RAM with expansion(albeit I will start with 8 to 16 gb), then a good power supply so I can handle the bill. So in general I’m looking at old office equipment to get stuff cheap, and efficient in electricity use.

Now to the question, I’m looking for good marketplaces in EU that have that sort of stuff. Anything will be good and if you can give several it would be even better. Thanks a lot!

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[–] farting_weedman@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago

Some more good information while you’re acquiring hardware: keep your drives cool. A case with fans that blow on its drive cages is better than one that doesn’t.

this Wikipedia article has a chart in it that shows what intel integrated gpus support what video codecs. the other person who said about the intel arc gpus for av1 decoding is right, but idk if you wanna spend money on a video card rather than lots of drives. Most stuff from trackers is available h264 anyway.

Make sure you have a backup solution. It might be backblaze for a few bucks a month, but you’ll quickly end up with terabytes of data that actually you can’t download again.

Some sleeper 7/8 generation intel sources are the sff dell inspiron motherboards. They have two pcie slots, a cpu that can do much more if it just had a bigger heatsink and some old gamer case will still fit the weird part that’s supposed to stick out of the front and provide usb and sd card slots.