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

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Post by monkeydust » Thu, Jul 20, 2023, 12:47 PM UTC

vxNsr wrote: post #61

monkeydust wrote: post #2

Lenovo ThinkServer TS140 16GB Xeon E31226 v3 3.3GHz 1TB HDD. Running Plex and Homeassistant for over 5 years on windows. Been great.

how are you managing data with only 1tb for plex? is there a das or nas somewhere else?

Yes nas device as well. Total 4tb. Can't fault thinkserver been rock solid even with windows

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

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Post by pwpw » Thu, Jul 20, 2023, 1:30 PM UTC

remedan wrote: post #65

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…

Could you tell me more about the NVMe cache? My understanding is that it’s not officially supported on a DS920+. A few questions if you don’t mind:

- How did you go about setting it up?

- What are the benefits of adding one?

- Can you use it with 4 HDDs installed?

- Which NVMe do you use?

I upgraded the RAM on mine to 20GB and saw massive performance gains, so I’m curious if adding an NVMe cache down the line would have similar performance increases.

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

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Post by pwpw » Thu, Jul 20, 2023, 1:34 PM UTC

Synology NAS 920+ for my photos, backups, Jellyfin, home assistant, etc. I mount it with nfs to my devices and have a raspberry pi 4 running WireGuard to connect to it when out of the house. It’s incredibly easy to maintain, which has been very nice.

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

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jul 20, 2023, 1:54 PM UTC

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

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Post by popey » Thu, Jul 20, 2023, 1:54 PM UTC

For a long while I was using one (a few in fact) HP MicroServers across the range N36, N40, N56 etc. I recently picked up an 8th Gen one which is a little more powerful, and have moved everything onto that. That includes Plex Media Server, backups, torrent server and ssh end point. It got noisy in my office, so I moved it out, and am much happier. I have four 3TB disks in Linux MD RAID 5, running on Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS. I do need to consider a disk upgrade at some point, as it's going to run out soon. That'll be a fun migration!

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

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Post by tonfreed » Thu, Jul 20, 2023, 1:59 PM UTC

Currently running a racked qnap 4 disk nas as Synology took the integrated graphics out of their boxes. It's got jellyfin and *arr docker containers running in it.

Also have another rack server incoming, which I'm going to make into an openstack aio and run all my fun side projects on it so my wife stops complaining about me leaving my desktop on overnight

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

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Post by vxNsr » Thu, Jul 20, 2023, 3:56 PM UTC

monkeydust wrote: post #91

vxNsr wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

how are you managing data with only 1tb for plex? is there a das or nas somewhere else?

Yes nas device as well. Total 4tb. Can't fault thinkserver been rock solid even with windows

4tb? Wow you don’t watch much eh? I’m currently trying to figure out what to do bec I have one machine with esxi, 18tb that are almost full and I wanna separate it off, with data being in a NAS and OS’s/containers staying on the hypervisor. But I have no clue how to do that in a way that doesn’t end up basically wasting a few hdds or taking a very long to copy everything.

Also I don’t wanna spend another $1000, though it looks like that’s what it’ll take. Between HDDs and a new case (I already have a good enough mb,cpu,ram,psu config that I can canabalize from elsewhere). Biggest issue is finding a cheap case that has the expansion available for more drives. They just don’t make cases like that anymore and all the people near me wanna sell a full pc for 100s. I just don’t need that.

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

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Post by vogon_laureate » Thu, Jul 20, 2023, 6:47 PM UTC

I use old Mac Minis. You can find some decent cheap ones on eBay. They run quiet, have a small footprint and have all the ports I need for projects. I run OpenBSD on them but Linux support is robust for those as well.

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

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Post by NotYourLawyer » Fri, Jul 21, 2023, 6:49 PM UTC

TurkishPoptart wrote: post #89

NotYourLawyer wrote: post #29

Synology NAS, plus a raspberry pi running Pihole. Not very exciting.

How does this work? Do you have all your network traffic traversing through the Pi to block ad traffic?

No, it’s not a firewall. It’s just a local DNS server with a list of domains that are known to be ad servers.

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

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Post by eiiot » Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 5:10 PM UTC

I’ve got an intel nuc and a 2014/15 (not super sure) Mac mini, both running Ubuntu 20.04. Never had any issues with either, they’ve both been running Homeassistant and 15 other docker containers for a few years with no issues.