Yeah, I know. My budget is just $100. But I think there is something good for a 24/7 working server. I'm good with Celeron and 8GB of RAM. I was looking at DELL OptiPlex 3020 mini PC, but on Amazon is more than my $100. So, is enyone using as a server a mini PC under $100? Or for office? My site doesn't have a lot of animations or something, is a place for my APIs. If you know something worth under $100, I need your help! Thanks!

Hey all, been scrolling forever.

Finally trying to get something a little better setup for my home server.

My use case.

Plex/ eventually jellyfin

Arr stack

Blue iris with 6 cameras

Maybe 4 hdds, currently with 2 8tb in raid 1

Looking to expand as I'm out of space. Was looking at adding 2 14tb drives.

The ip cameras are on a separate vlan and I originally intended to have dedicated hardware to separate the PC as well on this vlan.

I'm currently all over the place, I have an old Dell that runs my pirate ship, and an old z170 6700k that runs Plex and ispy.

My electric bills are generally pretty high, so trying to save everywhere I can.

I was getting ready to swap my Plex/arrstack to a dedicated mini PC. I realized that leaves me needing a second device regardless, just for storage.

Thinking about returning this to Amazon.

Now I'm wondering about using that 6700k build for every. Installing Ubuntu server and installing a windows 11 VM for blue iris, and docker for the aarstack.

The 6700k currently has a graphics card on it, but I don't think I need it for blueiris, or transcoding on jellyfin.

The PC also has a Corsair ax860 psu. I was thinking about downgrading this to something closer to 400w.

Also wondering if it's worth having a dedicated second NIC for the blue iris/ispy VM.

Any thoughts are appreciated.

We had a skylight calendar but we were unhappy with some of the restrictions, and so we took it back, my wife regretted it for a few months so I figured I could make something better, self hosted, and open source.

So here is my creation, it’s without a doubt in alpha, but I’m very very happy with what I have so far. I’d love to hear feedback on what needs to work better, or what features I should add.

I just could not find something in the skylight category that was self hosted that I was happy with.

I've been struggling for a bit with Tdarr and Unmanic. I realize they are great tools but, honestly, it's a lot for a guy who wants a Plex Server with reasonably sized video files. Is there an idiots guide? Or should I just manually run handbrake once a month?

I've been putting this off for way too long but the power has gone out for 10 minutes a half dozen times this month and my unraid server is constantly dying, panicking and running parity checks.

I've run a smart plug for a little while now to see how much power I'm using. Ran it with just the server and then with a power bar for my server as well as router, modem, switch. Here's what I got:

• Peak 130w - power comes back on, everything boots up at once including all HDDs spinning.

• Idle (server + network gear) 110w

• Server only idle around 80-100w

• Server only idle with disk spin down set to 45min 60-75w

I don't know what specs I need. If I could keep the server running for 15mins, shut it down and then have the network gear (10-15w) run for another 30 min or so that would cover most of our outages.

The specs are a little confusing... If VA = Volts x Amps and Watts = Volts x Amps then it should stand to reason that VA = Watts and 250 VA is tons of headroom for what I'm using. But the common ones have 500, 1000, 1500 VA so I feel like I must be missing something.

For capacity let's just say I'm I'm using 100 W for simplicity, a 100 Wh battery should power me for an hour (minus some loss to conversions and inefficiencies). Most batteries are 12 V, so a battery with a 12 V x 9 Ah battery should give me 108 Wh?

This is a the only unit available locally, LX1500GU3-FC. It's 1500 VA, the graph at the bottom says I should get 80 mins at 100 W. It has downloads for Linux software shutdown so I assume it can talk to NUT/Unraid?

I just want to make sure my calculations/assumptions are correct before pulling the trigger. Would be open to any other buying recs, I just looked at this one because I could pick it up today. I'd like a rackmount option but it seems like they're way more expensive for no reason other than "because".

Seagate Ironwolf ST4000VN008

These were the only drives in my machine. I tested another drive and you can feel it spin up as well as it shows under the BIOS. These drives feel dead and wont show under the bios. Ive tried 4 different sata ports, they work with test drive but not these 2.

Really hope there is anything that can be done to get the data off these drives.

I’ve taught myself how to setup/use esxi and run a couple of VMs via an old HP mini pc, but eager to move over to proxmox on a more powerful system which could easily emulate Wii U games (Mario Kart 8 for my son) via cemu on batocera VM while also running Home Assistant and a couple of other lightweight ubuntu VMs

I suspect a minisforum atomman g7 is overkill but I’d probably just want something with a dedicated graphics card wouldn’t I? Looking at refurbished and under $1000. Any suggestions?

I'm working on making a parts list for my first home server. I plan to use it for security cameras, Home Assistant, and then other smaller things like hosting discord bots, APIs for my own apps, and occasionally dedicated servers for games. Down the line I'd like to expand it to also be a media server (which from what I understand will be easy to expand hardware-wise, and will just need to get a HDD for that).

Here is what I have so far. I haven't started keeping track of prices to find deals, but does any of this list seem like overkill, or not enough? Anything unnecessary?

PCPartPicker Part List

Software-wise, I'm still undecided but leaning towards using Unraid. I have PC building experience but have no server experience at ALL. So any tips in general there are appreciated.

Thank you!

Hi,

tldr: Which needs ECC memory more Proxmox or TrueNAS media storage?

Help me choose which one gets 16GB of DDR4 ECC memory and which one gets 64GB of non-ECC DDR4 memory.

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I have Proxmox installed on a HP Z440 with a Intel Xeon E5-1630 with 4 cores, 8 threads, and 16GB of DDR4 ECC memory.

I have have quite a number of containers on it, which live on an SSD. There are also two 8 TB HDDs for media file storage for Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf, and such.

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I recently borrowed an old computer from one of my brothers in law, that was just collecting dust in a basement.
I have been told I can buy it off him if it suits my needs.

It has a Intel Core i7-6700 with 4 cores, 8 threads, and 64GB of DDR4 memory (non ECC)

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I have wanted to have my media file storage on a NAS for a long time, but I haven't been able to afford one.

So I was going to install TrueNAS on the Core i7, but then I thought: Isn't it better to have the file storage on ECC memory?

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So the full question is: Should I move my storage on to the Core i7 with no ECC memory, or should I migrate Proxmox on to it instead?

I'm trying to figure out the logistics of routing my home server media to my tv, the only avenue for this (that I can tell) being to use the Xbox.

Is there a way to get tailscale on an Xbox so I can run jellyfin securely?

Any help is appreciated, thank you!

Hello, I want to upgrade my plex server currently i have an hp elitedesk 800 G3 mini pc with a 10 tb external hhd plugged in via USB. I want to build a new pc to have all in one.

I already have:

Case- Thermaltake S100TG

Storage- 10TB hhd x2

GPU- GIGABYTE Radeon RX 580 GAMING 8G

I also have a monitor and mouse and keyboard.

What i need:

Parts that are power efficient and cheap lol I would like to keep my budget as low as possible while not sacrificing my current quality of plex streaming. My hard line however is 400$ but again the more budget friendly the better.

I live around Seattle area so no microcenter near me.

Thank you!

So I'm ripping DVDs to MKV or MP4 files using MakeMKV. The first two dvd's I ripped worked great! No problems playing them back. Then, the process stopped working. MakeMKV would read a ton of DVD's afterwards no problem, and provide the file, but the file won't play at all. It's thumbnail is different too. I thought maybe this was a MakeMKV problem. I tried Handbrake and WinX, same issue! I tried downloading VLC Media Player, no avail. Tried using VLC to fix it potentially. Tried different DVDs. Nothing. Tried downloading a movie off of Stremio? Same playback failure. Plugged my usb player into my laptop and the DVD and player worked. So apparently it’s not the dvds OR usb player as I had thought.

I truly have no idea what I'm doing wrong, but maybe I'm missing a crucial step as a noobie. Maybe it's my external DVD reader? But I've watched so many tutorials and I'm doing exactly as they do. Still the same problem over and over. Any ideas what's wrong??

My mom currently has all her movies on an external HDD plugged to her TV, but it's a pain to find the movie you want and it's a pain to get new movies for her. I told GPT I wanted something I could control fully remote and it suggested what's in the image.

I have never setup any server before, does this all make sense? Are there any better options or routes for what I want?