With all this migration i’ve been inspired to start self hosting some services.
I am looking for a mini pc to ideally run linux and host a media server with radarr and sonarr, pihole and some other stuff as i start getting more into self hosting.
Any recommendations / experiences that you can give? Or some general guidelines on what i should look for or things to avoid.
Thank you!!
I am running openmediavault on a HP workstation I bought off ebay. I paid less than $100 dollars for it I think 10 years ago. I have jellyfin set up for media. I should probably upgrade as it is an old Core 2 Quad.
Intel NUCs are a great mini PC option (while a little expensive)
Intel NUC is probably the best choice - silent, possible to have two SSDs, pretty low powered.
Personally, I did settle with 13 Dell optiplexes 9020 SFF
I replaced my aging NUC with a Minisforum SFF box and am also very happy with it. Footprint is slightly larger, but actually find it much quieter. The NUC was basically silent 90% of the time too, but it had an annoying high pitched whine if you were doing something very CPU-intensive.
Depending on model they can support up to 2 m.2s and a 2.5" drive.
I’d recommend to start with a mini-pc, or something like Odroid H3. I love my Odroids and can highly recommend them. It has two SATA, NVME, supports up to 64 GB RAM and dual 2.5 GBe - I couldn’t imagine a better machine to start with at that price.
I got myself a used/refurbished Lenovo ThinkCentre M910q Tiny, which works pretty well. Put in more ram and bigger storage and it is pretty beefy now as well as silent.
