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What do I actually need? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by xtapa@discuss.tchncs.de to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I'm in the means of buying a mini pc for selfhosting stuff. My main reasons are sailing the high seas for movies and series and hosting my families photos, videos to escape gdrive. I'm thinking about some kind of DMS / digitalizing paperwork and mail in the future.

I casually look into all kinds of software that could do the task and now I'm a bit overwhelmed. Is owncloud or an alternative enough, or do I need something more elaborated like TrueNAS? But all the NAS Foss stuff seems to run on their own OS. Can my Pirate Ship run on that? I feel like the diversity of solutions is making this very opaque for me.

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[–] xtapa@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've got my hands on an older Zotac nano that, according to the specs, has idle consumption of 6W. I think thats as good as it gets for a decent budget.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe. How much does it use when you use it? For lightly used servers idle power matters. However a modern CPU often uses much less power to get the same amount of work done and so if the server is doing something idle consumption isn't important.

[–] xtapa@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When it's streaming ready probably a bit more. But I guess I'm gonna be tinkering for a bit as suggested in other replies and build stuff successively. So for document and image storage it'll be idling most of the time.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago

streaming what? Streaming one mp3s. Streaming a dozen different video re-encoded to something else probably can't be done any affordable machine.