Well, I’m here to ask for your insights and knowledge.
I have been self-hosting for almost a year already. Mainly proving things like Jellyfin, jellyseer and all the ARRs. All of this with a modest Raspberry Pi 4b using DietPi OS (which I think is great!)
Now, I want to move to the next stage, acquiring a more powerful machine.
What do you recommend for:
A) Mini PC. I want it to fast and with a huge storage (being able to increase it easily)
B) SSD or HDD. Which ones.
C) Operative System. I would like to stay on Linux.
Any other recommendations?
Finally, I have an adjusted budget, but pretend to save a bit more to have something nice :)
I personally built a SSD-only homeserver, because of performance, noise and power efficiency. However, if you need much storage, the price difference gets really painful.
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Regarding your question B:
I personally built a SSD-only homeserver, because of performance, noise and power efficiency. However, if you need much storage, the price difference gets really painful.
That is exactly my fear. If I need to build my private streaming station, I will need too much storage (I still do not know how much exactly).
Furthermore, I want to build on top a Minecraft server for my kid.
Thanks for answering.
I too swapped my HDDs to SSDs recently, and while they’re in an enclosure, connected via USB, with ZFS they perform way better than a single NVME.