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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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[–] TRBoom@lemmy.zip 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

So a trick for the double drives is to pop in a low profile usb drive and install the os on that. Then you can use the ssd/hdd for other things.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 5 points 12 hours ago

Make sure the OS is good for that, or you use a very high endurance USB drive, or you use two drives in a mirror and are prepared to replace them. Most USB drives are not designed for constant use, like the log writes your OS will be doing.

[–] qwestjest78@lemmy.ca 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

So you leave the usb plugged in for boot and then you are good after that?

[–] TRBoom@lemmy.zip 4 points 13 hours ago

Yup! If you installed the os on it.

So you have one usb with the iso flashed to it and a second to install the os on. Use the first to install to the second.