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Hello I've been playing around with an old laptop as my home server for 1 year and I think that now it's a good time to upgrade to something better since it feels a bit too slow.

I was thinking to buy a synology but I would prefer something custom because I hate that sometimes the manufacturers decide to abandon support or change all their terms of service.

My budget is about 1000$ USD, I'm looking for it to have at least 20TB and the option to later add a graphics card would be nice.

What do you recommend to buy? Also what software do you recomend? Also could it work with an n100 mini PC?

I've been using Ubuntu server, with docker containers for several services, but I mainly use it for Nextcloud

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (9 children)

This is basically my homelab. Synology 1618 + 3x Lenovo M920Q systems with 1TB names. I upgraded to a 10gb fibre switch so they run Proxmox + Ceph, with the Synology offering additional fibre storage with the add on 10gb fibre card.

That's probably a few steps up from what the OP is asking for.

Splitting out storage and computer is definitely good first step to increase optimization and increase failure resiliency.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Any idea what your power consumption is for the 1618? I currently have a 720, but with only two drives it's kind of limiting for HDD upgrades.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Unfortunately, no - not specifically. I want to get a kilawatt monitor at one point. The best I can do is share my UPS's reported power output - currently at around 202-216W, but that includes both my DS1618 and the DS415+ along with my Ubiquiti NVR and two of my Lenovo M920Qs.

I should probably look at what adding the 5 bay external expansion would take power wise and maybe decommission the very aged 415

Edit: this is also my annual reminder to finally hook up the USB port on my UPSs to... something. I really wanted to get some smart - "Oh shit there's a power outage and we're running low on reserves, intelligently and gracefully shut things off in this order", but I never got around to it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

If you're running home assistant, you can put some inline power monitoring plugs in. I like the thirdreality ones, cause you can set them to "default on" or "default off" after power failure and run it as a zigbee local network without requiring internet access.

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