Hi hosters,
First timer here - just found this nice little instance.
I’m looking for a semi budget PC as my new server. I currently have a raspberry pi 5 for syncthing and torrent client and a Synology 1515+ for storage (used to also host nextcloud, jellyfin, bitwarden, but became too slow for jellyfin encoding). Will probably run opensuse, fedora or mint.
Budget is flexible, ~280-380 euros. The primary requirement is that it can do both 264/265 encode transcode and stream to two concurrent clients without any problems. 1080p is a need to have, 4k nice to have. Will also run torrents, maybe a game server and some kind of file sync. Media files will be stored on Synology nas. Will be buying used or refurbished. I have been looking at the following in different price ranges:
- EliteDesk 800 G5 Mini (i5-9500T)
- M710q Tiny
- OptiPlex 3060 Micro
- ProDesk 400 G4 Mini
Which of these would you chose? Or other suggestions?
For that money you should be able to find a used Lenovo tiny p320 with 32GB. You can remove the GPU (was able to sell mine for 40€) and then you have a PCIe slot for further NICs or whatever you’re going to need.
All the ones you mentioned work fine. Prioritize RAM over CPU (any quadcore will be sufficient really).
One thing they easily overlooked in these is the some of them support vPro, meaning you can connect like with a KVM to them even when they’re “turned off”. It depends on their chipset.