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Thanks for the detailed writeup, much appreciated! Another thing I'd like your opinion on is this: my use cases involve running a few services at home (NAS, Ne
by 6ak74rfy 4y ago
Thanks for the detailed writeup, much appreciated!
Another thing I'd like your opinion on is this: my use cases involve running a few services at home (NAS, Nextcloud, Jellyfin, Photoprism etc.) and store "family" data (documents, pictures etc.) but nothing "data hoarder" level. So, 4 TB would easily last us a decade or more.
Do you think such enterprises servers make sense for me? (Noise, complexity etc.) Or should I just get a used desktop/laptop?
- RobLach 4y agoProbably not. You could get away with whatever machine you have lying around with enough space that does differential back ups to an external (or with something hosted somewhere else over the internet).
- 6ak74rfy 4y agoWell, I don’t have any machine lying around. (I do have an RPi which is acting as my home server today. But it’s only 2GB and that’s why I am trying to replace it.) So, my options are to buy old desktop, old enterprise server or build a new desktop. The first two are similar price points on eBay, but I am not sure about the noise and power tradeoffs between the two. Like, if a 1U server is to noisy and power-consuming compared to the desktop, probably not a good choice for my case.