I need some advice on what hardware to buy for my home setup. I see a lot of posts talking about software, but not so much hardware. I would love to have a box I can buy and start setting up stuff.

A rack seems a bit expensive, my initial budget I feel is reasonable starting out is about $500-$800.

I’ve been looking at mini PCs, what are your thoughts on ASUS PN52? Just throwing that into the post to give a pin point of what I’m looking for.

I’m planning on hosting

  • Bitwarden
  • Nextcloud
  • Plex
  • Standard notes
  • Lemmy instance
  • Web server
  • Openresty

And need to be able to upgrade storage etc. for future proofing.

Thankful for all insights, tips, and suggestions!

LachlanUnchained
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Isn’t there only a single drive slot? (Not including the m.2’s) Don’t think Raid is an option for the pn52.

Dioxy
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What do you think about running the OS and binaries on the SATA SSD, and storing the data on the M2’s? And having the M2’s in RAID1?

LachlanUnchained
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I don’t know why. But it makes me uncomfortable.

Dioxy
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It’s weird, because that’s my feeling too. It got suggested by customer support at a retailer when asking in their chat. I guess it’ll work, but feels backwards. I think I’m going with a NAS solution, and running the server without RAID

LachlanUnchained
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I started with a nas. Did me well for a long time.

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