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homelab upgrade recommendations (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You mention about getting an AMD cpu, and I've heard similar stories about Intel quality lately, however I've also heard in the past that AMD cpus aren't very good at going low power. Electricity is expensive and I want it to idle as low as possible. Plus for my build, I'd certainly make use of quicksync on an Intel CPU.

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/Nutbolt/saved/#view=rrchkL

Any thoughts as I'm looking for opinions on the intel vs amd but also on my proposed build. Thanks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

There's a ton of sources, but gamersnexus did the most in depth coverage that spans many months and many videos. Stuff like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVdmK1UGzGs&t=1s. Majority of all Intel 13000 and 14000 CPUs are effected. And the new generation that just came out just seems to have extremely poor performance for the money as compared to equivalent AMD CPUs that both perform better and cost less.

As for the power consumption, in the generation you are looking at they are about the same or Intel is worse. In your build you picked i7-14700. Here's a decent read from gamersnexus again: https://gamersnexus.net/cpus/intel-desperate-i7-14700k-cpu-review-benchmarks-gaming-power. Give it a read and then go with an AMD processor :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

AMD processors also have worse video encoding compared to Intel, which matters for Jellyfin.