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Ask HN: What hardware are you running for your home server?

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Re: Ask HN: What hardware are you running for your home server?

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Post by BrandoElFollito »

I live in an apartment (Paris region, to get an idea of the climate) and my datacenter is located on the top shelf of a cupboard.

The main server is an old tower, ca. 6 years old. It costed 600€ at that time: a Skylake processor and 12 GB RAM. I use it to run about 20 services via docker (it includes the ones you mentioned). It is more than enough.

I used to have a small PC (chinese, bought on Aliexpress for about 150€ I think) to run Pihole (filtering, DHCP, DNS) but I moved it to my Internet box (yes, we have internet boxes that allow you to run VMs on them).

This with a Cisco switch, a Ubiquity AP and a UPS.

Total power is 60W, the temperature is around 35°C.

Re: Ask HN: What hardware are you running for your home server?

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Post by bravetraveler »

I wouldn't recommend what I do, the platform was a bit of a dead end and I've just randomly chosen a lot of this...

    CPU: Threadripper 2920x
    RAM: 128GB DDR4-3600 (ECC would make more sense, I think)
    Disk: RAID1 gen4 NVMe for the OS, two 5x5TB RAIDZ-2 volumes for long term storage
    GPU: Arc A750 for transcoding
    NIC: *bonded* 10GbE (SFP would be cheaper)
In a regular desktop chassis, in the corner of my office, with one of the sets of drives coming from an attached pod

This is mainly a NAS/transcoding box that happens to run a lot of VMs -- varying purposes, mostly what you'd expect with testing a lot of Ansible

Re: Ask HN: What hardware are you running for your home server?

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Post by packetlost »

I have a NAS built around an i3-4370 that was purpose-built with consumer hardware.

Another host built with consumer components: MiniITX with a Ryzen 2700X that was pulled from my main desktop when I upgraded. It runs most services that I actually use, including Plex which has a NFS mount to the above mentioned NAS.

3 Orange Pi 5 Plus SBCs that I recently set up for distributed application and ARM testing.

If I was starting from scratch, I'd buy a Synology Diskstation for NAS and a couple cheapo Ryzen Mini PCs.

Re: Ask HN: What hardware are you running for your home server?

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Post by remedan »

The hardware I have is:

  - 12th Gen Intel NUC with an i7-1260P, 64GB of RAM and 1TB NVMe drive
  - Synology DS920+ with three 10TB WD Red drives, NVMe cache and upgraded RAM
  - Mikrotik hAP ac3 router
  - APC Back-UPS BX 750VA UPS
I run Proxmox on the NUC and have a Kubernetes cluster in VMs. Any stateful services mount storage from the NAS via NFS. The UPS can keep all of this up for about 30 minutes. Data gets backed up to a Hetzner storage box via Synology Hyper Backup.

I monitor the power consumption with a smart plug and Home Assistant. It averages around 100W for everything above.

The stuff that I have running includes Gitea, Matrix, Nextcloud, Jellyfin, Pi-hole, Home Assistant, and some small websites.

If you're interested, here's what it all looks like, running next to me as I type this in my kitchen/office: https://i.imgur.com/duOM2Bh.jpg

Re: Ask HN: What hardware are you running for your home server?

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Post by lousken »

Epyc 7443, 256GB, 2x 1tb nvme + 2x 16TB hdd and some smaller drives, 2x 10GbE all in a 4U is living in my basement. However, that is not needed if you only want to use it for personal stuff. If you get 64GB of memory and 8-12 cores it should cover your needs more than enough. Having more than that is useful for work purposes - replicating onpremise or cloud infra and testing.

Re: Ask HN: What hardware are you running for your home server?

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Post by syntaxing »

I run a N100 (6W TDP, 12W system draw) mini pc that is attached with a Synology DS220+ with nfs. The N100 mini pc was about $160 after tax and even though it it’s 4 core 4 thread, it doesn’t even sweat running jellyfin, home assistant, and my NVR. With NFS, you can mount the volume to mount only when the data is accessed so your Synology NAS actually goes to sleep when you don’t use jellyfin. It’s serious money saving in terms of electricity.

As for the server backup, I just use active business backup on the Synology NAS which does rolling snapshots of the whole volume.

Re: Ask HN: What hardware are you running for your home server?

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Post by MattPalmer1086 »

I had an old thinkserver ts140, which is nice but I hardly use it anymore.

I replaced it with a raspberry pi 4, with 2 external 4Tb usb drives. Runs Plex, and handles all the backups of other machines on my network. Very low power, a little slow I guess, but works well enough for me.

Re: Ask HN: What hardware are you running for your home server?

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Post by jqpabc123 »

poisonborz wrote: post #35
jqpabc123 wrote: post #5

I used this and built my own. https://mitxpc.com/products/mitx-4125a

If you want to buy hardware for this and not reuse something old, Intel embedded ITX boards are the way. Chipsets J1900, J4125, N6005, or the newest N100. Cheap, low power, x86, standard PC parts, great performance (magnitudes more than SBC-s/RPi-s).

My link is to a motherboard with a J4125 processor.
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