So I’m going to be getting a new housemate soon, and they will most likely take the room that’s housing my dell r420 and rack. It’s currently running proxmox and hosting a jellyfin instance that I and a few friends/family members are using.
I’d like to move the server to another area, but cooling and noise requirements are making this an issue. I was thinking about clustering a bunch or raspberry pi’s that I have sitting around to try and come up with something like a replacement, but I can’t get my head around moving my storage off local disk to a san that won’t have a fibrechannel connection to my compute. Should I be looking at other SBC types, or should I just invest in renovating to build a new suitable spot for my hardware? What would you do?
EDIT: I’m hosting more than jellyfin, but this is the app I’m worried about - everything else can make do with a slower storage-compute connection.
Depends on Load. Realistically, one of the used “Mini PC’s” from Lenovo or HP with an i5 and integrated graphics should be decent for a couple of concurrent streams. They are pretty cheap on ebay. You could even get 3 or 4 and cluster them in some form. But most SBCs won’t work too well since transcoding needs a decent GPU of some sort.
Realistically, one of the used “Mini PC’s” from Lenovo or HP with an i5 and integrated graphics
Second this. I downsized from a couple of heavyweight enterprise servers to a handful of USFF Dell Optiplexes for the bulk of my self-hosted applications. I also have a stack of upgraded thin clients that run my smaller apps wonderfully.
The power, heat, and noise reduction has been amazing.
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Depends on Load. Realistically, one of the used “Mini PC’s” from Lenovo or HP with an i5 and integrated graphics should be decent for a couple of concurrent streams. They are pretty cheap on ebay. You could even get 3 or 4 and cluster them in some form. But most SBCs won’t work too well since transcoding needs a decent GPU of some sort.
Second this. I downsized from a couple of heavyweight enterprise servers to a handful of USFF Dell Optiplexes for the bulk of my self-hosted applications. I also have a stack of upgraded thin clients that run my smaller apps wonderfully.
The power, heat, and noise reduction has been amazing.