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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

I have a couple Aoostar R7's (4x in a hyper-converged ceph+cloud-hypervisor+k0s cluster, but that's overkill for most). They have been rock solid. They also have an n100 version with less storage expansion if you don't need it. My nodes probably idle at about 20w fully loaded with drives (2x nvme, 1x sata SSD, 1x sata HDD). Running ~15 containers and a VM or 2. You should be able to easily get 1 (plus memory and drives) for $1000. Throw proxmox and/or some NAS OS on it and you're good to go.