Please do. That’s the way to A S C E N D
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Sunoc@sh.itjust.worksto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Stop cramming everything onto one Pi: treat your home lab like a tiny ISP - hardware, stack, backups and an update planEnglish
6·10 months agoGenuinely helpful advice! Thanks!
Sunoc@sh.itjust.worksto
Political Memes@lemmy.world•Sleepy Joe wouldn't have been able to play it this cool, for sure.
2·10 months agoAppalachia is a wild place
Shakira law
I can’t even
Maybe trying with some Raspberry Pis for your services (takes up less space, low power) and building a dedicated machine for the NAS, as suggested by @hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip, but that’s a whole different budget.
Otherwise, maybe going for some mini-pcs, more recent second-hand PCs (stronger CPU for video encoding) or just more RAM and more disks.
I guess the final price will depend on what exact machine you can get your hands on.
Big mouth for someone in chain mail at lightning bolt distance!
Nice project!
Given the tight budget, here is what I would do, especially if you are not too constraint by space and don’t mind a few extra watts of power consumption. The Raspberry Pi are getting expensive, and the 200USD will barely get you a RPi5 nowadays. You said there is no market for you for second hand sever hw, but I’m guessing it should not be too hard to get used office desktop PCs.
- Get two of these. Maybe Optiplex or Thinkstation. You can probably get something decent <50USD each.
- Get two small SATA SSDs for the OS (128 - 256GB), around 30USD each.
- Get your storage drives. You should get 3 of them so you can have ZFS raid redundancy.
- On one machine, install TrueNAS and your storage drives. Default RAM is probably enough.
- On the other one, upgrade the RAM to 8 or 16 GB (~50USD), install your favorite Linux distro, and you can run your services, accessing the storage with NFS!
To me it feels safer (against my own mess-up) to separate the storage and the services, plus this setup is fairly upgradable. You’ll probably have space to add more storage drives, even maybe a cache SSD; increase the RAM; add a third machine etc.
Of course it’s just one idea, maybe other another layout might fit your use-case better, idk.
Good luck!
So you’re telling me they became a vending machine in a dungeon?
This. Takaichi is literally Abe again. Conservative, ultra liberal economy and WW2 crimes negationism, all the good stuff… Nothing ever changes.
Sunoc@sh.itjust.worksto
Memes@lemmy.ml•ARE TANKIES CONSPIRING TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BAD TIME ON LEMMY.ML? (2025 edition)
91·11 months agoSounds an awful lot like what a tankie would say
Sunoc@sh.itjust.worksto
Political Memes@lemmy.world•First time making one of these, need pointers
5·1 year agoyeah, face too big
eh, I guess you’re right, that’s a bit much. The thing is, I’m worried for the consequence of this event, yet Krik really was a piece of shit and I like this meme, even if it’s a bit obscure, so I’m still posting it. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Damn that’s a good looking mini rack! Great job!
I don’t have much experience or advice about Proxmox, just wanted to show appreciation ✌️
Sunoc@sh.itjust.worksto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•TrueNAS 25.10 Begins Testing With Faster Performance, 400GbE NetworkingEnglish
9·1 year ago100Mbps up because copper T^T
Sunoc@sh.itjust.worksto
Political Memes@lemmy.world•Dropkick Murphys play Epstein and Trump Footage during song
15·1 year agoHaven’t really listen to anything from them since Signed and Sealed , I’ll definitely check their new stuff !
Sunoc@sh.itjust.worksOPto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•From Docker with Ansible to k3s: I don't get it...English
1·1 year agoThanks for the detailed reply! You’re not the first to mention gitops for k8s, it seems interesting indeed, I’ll be sure to check it!




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