Hi :)

I’ve been playing around with a pi 4 for a few months now, but I want a dedicated home server now, since I want my pi to run HomeAssistantOS.

I’m looking for something that can store documents and photos (paperless and immich) and maybe run a small program like Ad guard. At first I just want to hookup an old SSD (250GB) and a HHD (1TB), but maybe I will buy a second one for RAID in the future. Power consumption at idle is really important for me (energy prices in Germany are really high).

As a beginner I find it very hard to find the right hardware, because everyone is recommending different things. (Slim-Clients, Intel Nuc, Raspberry Pi, Synology NAS).

I hope someone can recommend me something that will work for me.

  • Lennard@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Thanks for your detailed response. I thought about an old office PC, but I guess they’re not even close to <10W idle.

    Another quick newbie question: What do you need PCI Slots for? Many SATA ports for Drives makes sense to me, but why PCI

    • PatrickYaa@lemmy.one
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      2 months ago

      If you don’t have enough sata ports on the mobo (the optiplex 7010 has 1x Sata), you’ll need a pci sata controller, is my understanding. Not sure what other possibilities there are to connect more hdds…

      • poVoq@slrpnk.net
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        2 months ago

        Pcie slots also allow adding more nvme ssd drives, although sadly most mainboards do not support pcie bifurcation, so you will be limited to a single nvme ssd per slot.