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I’m glad to see this because I have been debating getting a used computer or a cheap desktop to run as a torrent box but haven’t had any good recommendations co
by numbers 3y ago
I’m glad to see this because I have been debating getting a used computer or a cheap desktop to run as a torrent box but haven’t had any good recommendations come my way. Ideally, I want to run a Linux distro on it and have it sync everything over to my Mac which has plex on it.
I’m curious if others have done something similar?
- moepstar 3y agoEven tho reddit seems to have "gone out of fashion", check the homelab (and minilab) subreddits, plenty of suggestions there. I built a smallish Proxmox cluster out of Lenovo M910q uSFF boxes - works pretty good and sips power (the i5-6500 series has a pretty good performance to power ratio imho).
- mavamaarten 3y agoI've been running a HP ProDesk 600 g1 for years now. It's my NAS (using external storage), general purpose server and home assistant server. I initially bought it for other purposes, but it made sense to use it. It's not as power-hungry as "real desktops" due to its laptop power supply, and much more capable of running a bunch of docker containers than something like a Pi. Second-hand this kind of computers can be had for super cheap, many companies use them. I got mine for €100 many years ago, including a power supply and an Intel pro SSD of 512GB. For that price I can't get a recent raspberry pi with decent SD card and power supply. I guess I do pay some more in terms of electricity, but it's reasonably efficient and the extra performance makes up for it.
- ThrowawayTestr 3y agoUsed higher spec but older gen hardware is almost always better than trying to get new, low spec hardware.
- bombcar 3y agoUsed Mac minis are actually pretty great at this, or even old Mac laptops. Intel if you want to be sure to be able to run Linux, otherwise, they just run MacOS.