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What Is A Good Sub $300 Computer I Can Use For A Server? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 months ago by qwestjest78@lemmy.ca to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I have a refurbished Lenovo Thinkcentre that I was running Truenas off of. Everything was working great, but it got hit with a power surge and after lots of trouble shooting it appears the motherboard is fried and I don't trust my ability to soder and fix it.

No now I need to upgrade my setup. Wondering what is a good sub $300 computer I can order that will run Jellyfin, Immich, and a few light services off of? With Truenas you seem to need two SSDs. One to boot and one to run apps, so it seems like a mini PC will not work.

I have a seperate HDD drive bay with a few hdd's in it full of shows and picture. Just need a PC to run my services.

I would prefer something I can order off Amazon or can be shipped quickly so I can get back up and running again.

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[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Would a pi5 work?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

He said "sub $300" \s

[–] verstra@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

It would, but it does not have SATA. You can find much cheaper computers that do have it

[–] addie@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They're quite versatile computers for general purposes, but their i/o performance is dreadful. Mine all max out at about ten megabytes per second. That will not do, for server purposes.

Fortunately, there's businesses all over that are chucking out all their old mini PCs since they won't run Win11. I got an extremely decent one for £20 and it's my new home server. Absolutely storms it, while just sipping at electricity.

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago

I served 4k content with plex off a 4, while running pihole on it.

They say they have a drive enclosure, so if that’s network attached they may be good.