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I’ve come upon a solid amount of 4tb drives, 8 SAS drives for dirt cheap from a local biz. Never used. I saw a HP ProLiant DL385p Gen8 Server on eBay for $80 and thought it was a score since it had been the best deal. I’d been wanting to upgrade off my think center m710. Curious any recommendations for this? My current setup is as follows:

Main server:

Lenovo think center m710

16gb, gt 1030, 2 4tb HDD sata, one 500gb ssd sata

Ubuntu lts

Docker compose

  • Arr stack -Gluetun with open on proton in Germany -qbittorrent -sonarr -radarr -Overseer -cleanuparr -prowlarr -plex -navidrome -audiobookshelf -Minecraft server (modded: neoforge itzg) -immich -bunch of others that aren’t fully working like tatuli or plex wrapped

Secondary Thinkpad x220 (loved this shit through college) 16gbRAM, 250ssd sata Arch Docker compose -searxng -pihole dns

I’m still looking in to some security system ideas as I’d like to use some storage and maybe do that with some of it. Or some cybersecurity projects or a banned book library or something. I’m open to any suggestions to help this go as smooth as I can make it and as fun as it can be.

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[–] MoeMoeCueBot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You could spin up frigate if you got some cheap WiFi cameras but wyze cams are pretty popular for it

[–] digdilem@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

Frigate is great, but it needs a lot of cpu/gpu or a corel TPU. OP has old hardware, so I'm guessing a slow CPU.

Zoneminder is a non-AI cctv system. Also free. Not as fun to play with as Frigate but solid.