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Hey guys, I’m upgrading from 256 gigs to installing 8x128GB 3200 MHz ram into my Asus WRX80E Sage and for some reason 7x128 posts but installing the eighth causes the motherboard to cycle codes, I’ve seen C2, 66, 44, 01, dE, etc. it doesn’t matter the stick or the slot, as long as 7/8 are installed it works. I’ve removed all my GPUs say for one output and I’m thinking maybe the motherboard is still trying to recognize all 8 slots so right now I’m waiting for something to happen. The VGA light is on right now…

Budget (including currency): 5000 DKK/700$ Country: Denmark Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: The server would be run 1-2 gaming server(from Minecraft to ARK) at the time, plus storage of photos and other files Other details: I am new to the building of server and what system I should use on them, so I am looking for advice on what parts would be a good fit and the same for what kind of system is a good choice for a gaming/storage server. As of now I been looking at using the case Core 500 or Node 804 from Fractal Design, and for the other parts the only thing I know there is needed are at minimum 32gb of ram. For the storage I have been thinking of having minimum 5tb for storage and been thinking of either raid 1 or raid 10. For those who use the time to help, many thanks

Budget (including currency): 16,000 GBP [Ideally under] Country: UK Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Primarily Deep Learning on image data, Frameworks: PyTorch, TensorFlow Other details: I have two systems spec'ed out from a workstation vendor, and I am looking for advice on where I can save some money. System 1: [rack mount server unit] Server + Motherboard + PSU : ASUS ESC4000 E10 - 2U / 2x CPU / 4x GPU / 1x M.2 / Front side: 2x 2.5" NVMe + 6 x 2.5/3.5" SATA / 2 x 1600W redundant PSUs CPU(s) : 2x Intel Xeon Silver 4310, Ice Lake, 12 Core, 24 Threads, 2.10GHz, 3.30GHz Turbo, 18MB Cache, 120W RAM : 128GB (16x 8GB) ECC Reg DDR4 3200MHz GPU(s) : 48GB NVIDIA A6000 X 2 with NVLink Storage (Main) : 960GB Micron 7450 PRO M.2 (22x80) Enterprise SSD, PCIe Gen4 1x4 NVMe, 5000MB/s Read, 1400MB/s Write, 520k/82k IOPS Storage (Secondary) : 1.92TB Micron 7450 PRO U.3 NVMe SSD, 2.5" 15mm, PCIe 4.0x4/U.3, 6800MB/s Read, 2700MB/s Write, 800k/120k IOPS + 16TB Seagate Exos Total : ~15,500 System 2: [workstation] Motherboard: ASUS PRO WS W790E-SAGE SE - 2x 10 GbE, 1x 1 GbE, 6x USB-A, 2x USB-C PSU: Corsair HX1500i, Silent, 80PLUS PLATINUM CPU(s) : Intel Xeon W5-3435X, 16 Core, 32 Threads, 112 PCIe Lanes, 3.1GHz, 4.7GHz Turbo, 45MB Cache RAM : 128GB (8x 16GB) ECC Reg DDR5 4800MHz GPU(s) : 48GB NVIDIA A6000 X 2 with NVLink Storage (Main) : 2TB Samsung 980 PRO NVMe PCIe 4.0, 7000MB/s Read, 5000MB/s Write, 1000K IOPS Storage (Secondary) : 12TB Seagate ST12000NE0008 IronWolf Pro, 3.5" NAS HDD, SATA3 6Gb/s, 7200rpm, 256MB Total : ~14,000 Other points: 1. We may want to go up to 4 GPUs. 2. From my experience, mechanical drives aren't fast enough for Deep Learning use cases (GPU can't be fed fast enough from disk); what's a suitable SSD (SATA) alternate? or RAID config for HDDs? open to any other suggestions as well. Thanks !!

Hi everyone, hope you are all having a good day! I am looking for some advice on what I should do regarding potentially renting a new server and reconciling an existing one I already have. My reconciliation plan however means I am going to be treading into territory I am not so familar with. I will try to keep this brief as best as I can while hopefully providing the full picture of my thoughts anyway. I want as much feedback so if my idea is stupid or if there are other ways I can go about tackling it please let me know! So I currently have a cloud Linux VPS which comes with Plesk preinstalled as a bundle deal. I pay £28.80 a month for this service and I don't get the full value of this setup, the spec for this is kinda overkill for my use case. This server spec is 6v cores from an Intel Xeon Gold 5120, 12GB RAM, and 240GB storage. I only use 5% of the CPU, 1.8GB of RAM, and 40GB (most of this is probably system files) of storage which means a lot is left on the table. The reason for this spec is a whole other story but we move on. I also occasionally rent shared game servers such as Minecraft, Valheim, Palworld, and others but this averages about £15 when I do this. I don't normally have multiple of these at a time so I am constantly back and forth with setup etc. I'm probably a host's worst nightmare because of my indecisiveness. So I roughly end up paying around £43.80 a month in total. My plan/idea is to do away with the above and get a more powerful dedicated Linux server to combine my two use cases and since I will have full control I can turn game servers on and off as I please without canceling and buying new games servers so I will also save money. I was going to go with a Hetzner server because I've used them before for past projects and I know they have some good pricing and good deals on Plesk License prices too. However, these servers have always been Windows as I don't know much about Linux. So the two options I narrowed it down to anyway were to go for either (prices converted from Euros to Pounds): AMD Ryzen 5 3600, 64GB RAM, 512 GB SSD + €11.76 Plesk License = £53.84 Intel Core i5-13500, 64GB RAM, 512 GB SSD + €11.76 Plesk License = £55.07 What I need help with is: Would it be wise to run Plesk and Pterodactyl together on these server options? (I want to install Pterodactyl to manage the game server-side) Would you recommend this solution to someone who has 0 Linux knowledge but is willing to learn? Which CPU would be better for my use case? The i5 has a higher CPU Mark score than the Ryzen 5 but I know that doesn't account for everything. I picked their Falkenstein (Germany) location but that does add some cost. Do you think I could get away with the server location being in Helsinki (Finland)? Is there a better solution to this? I'm open to ideas.

In the past week I was using tailscale but the speed is so slow, is there a better alternative? Easy software to setup with faster connections. connections that would be reach my internet speed limit (about 50Mbps download, 10 upload)

Need new am4 cpu for unraid My 3800xt seemingly died. One board it posts but no usb work. Other board no post gets stuck on vga but displays an underscore in the upper left corner. My 5800x3d is currently chilling in the server and the gaming rig is down with the 3800xt. Both boards are x570. Msi in the gaming rig. Asrock in the server. I'm looking for a replacement cpu and eyeballing the 5950x. My server has a few roles from plex to a windows server to a minecraft server.

Budget (including currency): N/A Country: US Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Media streaming, file hosting, Minecraft Server Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Hardware: Dell r900 16 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7330 @ 2.40GHz (4 Sockets), 128gb of RAM Built in iPERC 6 Raid controller x2 2tb SAS SSDs 2.5" (only work with raid controller) x2 2tb SAS HDDs 2.5" (only work with raid controller) 10gb TP-Link TX401 pcie NIC 1tb Crucial SSD 240gb SanDisk SSD 10Gtek PCIe SATA Card 4 Port usb 3.0 pcie card (probably will remove) Corsair CX-450M PSU (Using PSU to power SSDs and pcie cards as server doesnt have extra power plugs. I have a 1000w PSU on stand by if GPU needs more power) Palit GeForce RTX 4060 Dual (this is the GPU I want to get as it's a x8 slot card and I want the server lid to be able to close so a x8 to x16 adapter will not work) I have this server and I want to turn it into a media hosting server as well as maybe consolidate a few single use systems I have into VMs on the server as well. I currently have a single computer NAS running TrueNAS which currently stores my personal media as well as my media for video editing and photography. The other computer is just running a minecraft server on ubuntu. So if I could not only consolidate those two PC into this server but also add a GPU so I can stream my video catalog (maybe 1440p60fps and possibly 4k60fps in the future) throughout my devices in my home (I'm guessing this is where Plex or Jellyfin would come in). My GPU choices are limited due to the x8 slot situation I mentioned in the hardware specs. From what I understand I will use a OS like Proxmox to run my VMs (NAS, MinecraftServer, Media hosting for streaming). I'm fairly new to Proxmox but I've been playing around with it but if anyone is a Proxmox Pro please dont hesitate to add your 2cents! In my research I've also see that docker would be ideal to tie these things together? I'm not sure but I know if I have to use docker then TrueNAS isn't compatible or so my research has proven. And don't get me started on using raid controllers with NAS software. I get places that say you shouldn't and some say that you can now and that information is outdated. So I'm also trying to figure out how to incorporate using the SAS drives up front. So to wrap is all up how would you configure the setup? Am I on the right trail to meet my end goal? Is proxmox what yall would use? Is Docker an important role to make this work? Is TrueNAS gonna work w/ Docker if I need Docker and if not what NAS OS should I use? Is Plex or Jellyfin the way to go? Do plex and jellyfin run on their own VMs or do they run as containers (this part I'm still learning in Proxmox)? Will the built in raid controller virtual drives created from the sas drives work with not only a NAS software but work within proxmox as a VM?

Howdy guys! This is my first time using a forum for tech help, apologies if this is in the wrong area but i need some help. I'm currently turning my previous pc into a server to store files for my photography business. I've watched the LTT video on this to gain the basics and I'm also watching a few Network Chuck videos to help me understand it all. Essentially what I've done so far is setup a cloud flare tunnel and installed File Cloud to try to route that externally so i can access the server files from anywhere that has an internet connection like dropbox or google drive. However the issue I'm running into is that in order for me to download the docked drive using File Cloud Drive is that I've had to register a record on the domain to make a redirect link to the server. I've gotten the drive docked using the redirect from the record on cloud flare but correct me if I'm wrong i believe that link is only accessible though my home network and not when I am out and about. I need to locate the servers local IPV4 address and port to tie to the tunnel for internet access but I have no clue on where to go to access that information. any help on how to get this done would be absolutely amazing. Thank you guys!!!

I was given an HP ProLiant ML330 G6. This is the first server that I have ever messed with, and I don't know what's going on. I believe I have everything connected correctly, but it will not power on. Do you have an idea of what it could be that is causing that? Also, I don't even know what I'm going to do with this thing. Do you have any ideas as well?

Greetings! As the tittle suggest, I want you guys to give opinion about it for research purposes, especially doing experiment around building "almost all in one mini homelab server" and probably gonna mass produce it if thats viable. I also have some additional question regarding it, which is: If quad core with Hyperthreading (4C/8T), is enough, what kind of task you run on it? Do you prefer 6C/12T or even 8C/16T option with more steeper price? If the product is built like an mini PC (like those AliExpress multiport x86 router), what built in I/O your expect from it? Do you guys prefer more expansion option or more built in I/O with some price increases? For example, either more M.2/PCIe expansion or built in 10GBe/SFP+ Do you think video transcoding is a bonus or must have on this thing?? The performance is ranging from mobile Renoir (Zen2) to Cezanne (Zen3/3+) and its intel equivalent (15-35W TDP). Thank you in advance for your opinion!

Hi all Im working on an HP ProLiant DL385 Gen 7 for work as a project. It is currently unused. It was reported some years ago (before I started ) that there was Malware on the Server. Is there a way to check if this is true and even if I reinstall Windows Server 2019 R2 on it - will it be safe to use? Any help would be appreciated Cheers! Shane

Hey so I recently acquired a really cheap dell r710 server. I got it turned on it runs windows server 2003 r2 sp2. I was never given the username and password. And I was wondering how I can change it or bypass so I can use the sever?

I'm in the process of setting up a security camera system for my new house and could use some expert advice. I'm considering going with Ubiquiti, but I'm a bit lost when it comes to the technical details. Here's what I have in mind: 1. 1 camera for the balcony 2. 1 camera for the parking area 3. 2 cameras facing outside the home Total 4 cameras running on PoE 4. Wi-Fi extenders/mesh running on PoE to cover areas with weak Wi-Fi signals My house has LAN sockets in every part, and I'd like to keep the footage recording locally. Could you please help me with: - What specific Ubiquiti products should I consider for this setup? - Do I need to pay a monthly subscription fee to Ubiquiti after purchasing their equipment, or is it free for a lifetime? Any advice or recommendations would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance.

Hi, as the title states I'm looking for the files to do a bmc update on an old intel s2600cp board. I'm unsure whether it's a cp2 or cp4. Unfortunately it's discontinued by intel and they've only put the BIOS update files on their website. If anyone has them or know where to get them it'd be greatly appreciated. By the by, the reason for me needing the update is that since one of the CPU's are faulty and I've taken it out, the fans are stuck on max speed at all times and I need that fixed, so if ya'll have any other way of fixing that issue I'd love to hear it. Thanks.

The following is my current setup for my gaming/work use. The desk is an Ikea MALM which, ngl, one of the best desks I've ever had. The monitors are mounted via cheap monitor arms I got on Amazon (and yes, made many, many missed attempts before landing them in a spot I liked). I keep my mic mounted on the wall as well (yes I miss mounted that too). The mic is a HyperX QuadCast S. The monitors are 2 ASUS ROG PG279Q's (The far left and the far right) And an Asus VG27AQ1A (Center). Why the mismatch of monitors? Because tbh they're so extremely similar that it doesn't matter, the only difference being the center VG27AQ1A which support HDR, which I only turn on for gaming. The PC in the SilverStone case is my Debian 12 Home NAS/Media Server. Lovingly referred to as "AlphaCat." Specs: AMD RYZEN 7 5800X Noctua NH-L9a Cooler 32GB Corsair GDDR4 Memory @ 3000mhz ASUS TUF B550-Plus Gaming Wifi II Motherboard Intel ARC A310 GPU (Planning to be replaced, just got it on a steal of a bargain for HDMI video output) 2X 8TB Seagate HDDS running in Raid 1 (The HyperDrive) 4X 2TB Intel SSDs running in RAID 0 (The WarpDrive) running on an Asus Hyper M.2x16 card LG Bluray R/WR WH14NS40 650Watt EVGA (RIP) 80+Bronze power Supply SilverStone CS380B Case (Yes, it has hotswap drive bays behind that door) Ontop of the Server is a PiKVM and the USP beside that. Networking, I run off a Refurb Asus AX1100 that has served me very well for the past 3+ years. And a Zyxel 2.5gig switch behind that. The white box is the comcast modem. The brown bag is a crap load of ethernet cabling I use to make ethernet cables and spare HDDs should I ever need them. Tardis lamp for beautiful lighting which does have a smartbulb I can turn off remotely. The VR headset is a Vive Pro with wireless adapter, Valve Knuckles (don't remember what the new name is), and FBT kit. Not pictured are the 4 lighthouses that surround the room. Finally my pride and joy, the SnowCat as I call her. Specs: AMD RYZEN 9 5950X Asus PRIME X570-Pro Motherboard 32GB XPG DDR4 @ 3200Mhz Corsair H100i Elite Capellix Cooler Samsung 990 2TB M.2 Samsung 980 500Gb m.2 3TB Seagate HDD 6TB Seagate HDD Sapphire Nitro+ AMD RX 6950 XT Corsair 1000Watt 80+Gold Power Supply (Custom white cableing from Cablemod) Corsair 4000D Airflow Case And lastly, the reason I love this desk. The wires that all get stuffed into the little alcove up top that pose the greatest fire risk to my entire apartment complex. Feel free to share thoughts or mention other things you want to discuss in the thread. Don't hold back

Hi All, Me and my friend run a remote game server and for the past week have been unable to access it due to both version of Microsoft remote desktop getting stuck on these securing/configuring screens for up to two mintues before showing a black screen and ultimately disconnecting. I've searched around and all the error code brings uup is an unknown reason for disconnection. We knew it wasn't really very stable to being with and id intend to install TeamViewer and acces the server machine remotely that way, however, this isn't possible anymore due to the fact that our current means of access has been effectively wiped out. If anyone has any sugegstions fo things that we could try to try and fix this before either of us have the chance to be on site with the machine, I would be most appreciative. If it comes down to a fresh install of Server 2016 and the addition of Team Viewer, just reply with that and I'll mark as resolved. TIA

Okay here's the situation that I need a bunch of tech nerds (like myself but smarter and more experienced) to help me with if you are so inclined. I currently run UNRAID mostly as a plex server, but also PC backups, network storage and sandbox for whatever comes to mind. My current set up is built in this case with an i7-8700K on a PRIME Z370-A and 16GB of DDR4. I have 1x 500GB SSD cache (5 years old) and after some drive swapping will have an 1x 8GB Parity, 1x 8GB Data, and 4x 4GB Data. The 8GB are new the 4GB are between 3-5 years old. I'd say I hit the drive with a moderate amount of reads and writes. Nothing too crazy. My user count is high but only a few consistently use Plex. Maybe 10 hours per day is consumed around 50% of the time. I had to add a SATA expansion card as the above totals 7x SATA drives. I had installed a hot swap enclosure but it started having problems after a couple of years so I moved all the drives into mounting locations with in the case above. This has been fine except There's no more room for drives unless I pull the hot swap enclosure out and I don't think I have the hardware anymore to allow more drives to be installed in its place. I could figure it out but the issue I've run up against, or I believe I have run up against is power. I'm currently out of 15 pin power connectors and the ones I am using are all using each connector in the daisy chain. While everything is running perfectly fine, it has been running like that for over 5 years and I think I want to either upgrade or at least set myself up to be able to expand a bit. So....anyone have any suggestions how where I may go. Some thoughts I've had are Use some 1 or 2U drive enclosure solution that will provide more options for drives with power budgets and connectors taken into account in the design. If something like this is used how is it connect to the head unit, what would be required, is the configuration work a nightmare. Is there a way to do this with out create a jet engine server closet? Is my current case just fine and maybe I upgrade my power supply? If so are there ones with extra 15 pin SATA connectors Maybe it behooves me to shift to new tech and add M.2 clearing up some SATA connectors and power (and allow for dual cache). Anyone have mind blowing experiences upgrading in this way? Any suggestions that come to mind with my above set up that would be better a half decade after I built it. Thank you so much for your time. GB = TB. Thanks Skimmilk5

I've been using an old pc ad a minecraft server on and off for the past 3years the pc contains an a10-6700 apu 16gb of ddr3 ram and a gt620 (all the parts are from an old prebuilt the acer tc-130). (I'm gonna call it a server for a large part of this even tho technically it is just a regular desktop) The pc has been working for the last 3yrs, as the nature as a second older pc I've cycled alot of components in and out including multiple harddrives and os (windows 8.1 , windows 10, 11(even tho it's unsupported I goy it working) and ubuntu server) The server was working last week when I decided to switch out the mechanical harddtive into my main pc to speed up chunk loading, the drive ended up dying a day in probably unrelated but gor detail. So I decided to use my 500gb crucial sata ssd to have the minecraft server on with ubuntu server as the os (same as the harddrive) point is i finish rendering the world and went to put the ssd into the server and was met with a reboot or insert proper boot media. Since I've attempted to use 4 different drives a harddrive with Windows 11 on a harddrive with ubuntu server on and my ssd i plan to use with ubuntu server and even tried to use a blank drive and install ubuntu server onto it with boot media which worked whilst installing but after restarting as part of the install process (the part when removing the usb stick) it can't detect a boot device. Since I've tried 5 different ram sticks, a range of different sata cables. I've some what attempted tk change bios settings but have a limited knowledge do a fix to the issue is likely to be seated there if there is one. The only other thing I could suspect is the powersupply howrver the harddrives spin to life on power on so this doesn't seem to be an issue any input is appreciated there's 2 links showing below. (Don't judge me for being on carpet and using motherboard boxes to keep of it ik it's risky but I don't rlly have many other option available at the momment) Boot without keyboard: https://youtube.com/shorts/LdTeL4OqOGM?si=-YN1-Oj4UObUbapt Bios and boot with keyboard: https://youtu.be/zn2lzjh9ZkY?si=9L89AV98_yAI7V8n

Budget (including currency): <~250 (looking for used stuff and would like cheap but if I find a good deal willing to spend higher) Country: U.S.A. Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Proxmox, TrueNas Scale, Ubuntu Other details: I'm looking at building a server and I need to get a motherboard and CPU but I'm having trouble finding something for a good deal. I'm looking for a server board with IPMI. That way I can practice using it. And then I also need a CPU that has good efficiency for its power. I'm thinking of getting a LGA 1151 motherboard but I don't know what to get. This is going to be for my main proxmox server that will run truenas, a game server and whatever else I put on it. I could go with a consumer board but I don't know of any that has IPMI. I also need full ATX as I plan on adding a couple different PCIE devices (GPU, networking, storage). Does anyone have any good advice on what to get? Or maybe they have bought something themselves that they could recommend? power mobo+CPU with IPMI

Hi guys. I have bought hardware for 2 storage servers, which i was trying to set up right now, but i simply cant get the systems to boot. Both have a nearly identical setup: - Xeon Silver 4314 CPU - 4x 32 GB Kingston Server Premier DDR4 - a Network Card - an HBA-Card - 2 Sata SSDs connected over Sata - 4 Drives connected to the HBA only difference are the mainboards: One is running a Gigabyte mu72-su0 and the other one is an AsRock c621a ws As i said none of them boot. They are giving me a graphis out but i cant get to the BIOS. The gigabyte is stuck at Mermory Initalization adn the whatever memory channel is populated (i tried all slots, only one stick, single 2666 non-ecc stick...) The As Rock is giving me Code E8 (or EB) on the Display of the board and on the screen only a simple 31 in the bottom right corner. I think i could messed up something with the RAM but what...? Every bit of help would ba appreciated, i am really depending on your help guys! Best greetings JD

Hi the server won’t update it sends a message something went wrong and the windows update is missing from the setting It’s stuck on this version Any idea how can I update it ?

I have an on old computer I have been using as a home server for Minecraft. This is the computer: https://www.newegg.com/gateway-dx4380-ur308/p/N82E16883113230 the only changes to the handwear is back in September I added another 16 gb of ddr3 ram and cleaned the cpu and cooler then applied new thermal paste and put the cooler back on. I moved the Server into another room and wired it up to the ethernet last month and it had been on since then. The other day I tried to remote into the server and saw it wasn't able to connect, and I couldn't connect to the Minecraft server either. I plugged a monitor in and and a mouse and could not get a display to show up. I then held the power button for about 10 seconds untill it powered down fully. Since then it hasn't been able to turn back on. Sepcs: A8-Series APU A8-5500 (3.20GHz) 8GB DDR3 + 16 GB DDR3 1TB HDD Windows 8 64-bit AMD Radeon HD 7560D

Hey guys new here! I’m looking to build a system to host game servers for my friends and I. It would be running single game server at a time for around 4-6 people max. Some of the games I’m looking to run are modded Minecraft, 7 Days To Die, project zomboid, and maybe ark survival. I have a system with a AMD RYZEN 3 3200G 4 core with 8 GB of 2400mhz DDR4 ram already. I figured this would be enough for Minecraft but for the other games, I wasn’t so sure. Currently, I have no set budget but I would like to keep it on the cheaper side. I plan on running windows 10 via an 2.5 SSD. Any suggestions and or resources to refer towards would be great . Cheers!

Hello, I was looking on the forum (and other forums) for a similar post, but didn't find anything similar to my case. I will start with the context, then my idea and then my question. Currently I have around 30 smart devices working in my flat (lights, stores, temperature sensors, etc) most of them are a mish-mash of Zigbee devices that I centralize on a single hub and then control through Tuya's Smart Life app. Plus a handful of wifi devices (humidifier, nest speakers, vacuum cleaner, etc). I centralize everything via Google Home. I'm often adding new stuff to make the house smarter, but I'm limited Smart Life's and Google Home's automations, and well, I'm not too comfortable about talking to a Chinese/Google server every time I want to turn my lights on. Also, I automatically backup my family's phones with Resilio Sync on an old laptop with windows 10 which stays on all the time. The computer also stores our old pictures (even some scans from before the digital era), and has a physical copy of our Dropbox and Google Drives (a few dozen gb) with important document scans. All these are important and are stored on the internal HDD, which is backed up by windows every night into one external HDDs (poor man's Raid xD). There's another external HDD with a collection of movies and music that I acquired before 2010 by less than legal means (the video quality is poor, and most of it is on streaming now), so I don't really mind losing them beyond some nostalgia from my broke student years. To access the media on our phones and TV, the computer also runs a local Jellyfin server. The HDD's are currently at about half capacity, but since I'm just storing new pictures and short videos, I don't think I need much more for now. As you may have understood by now, I would like to transition from Smart Life into Home Assistant (to have more powerful automations plus having everything local...). Also, I'd like to turn my hacky Resilio+Windows backup solution into a proper NAS server. Finally, we don't use Jellyfin much, but it wouldn't hurt to digitize all the physical media I currently (and legally) own and have access to it whenever and wherever I want. I know that you can have all that in a single machine, using the magic of Linux and dockers and such, and I've been checking online for how-to's. The problem is that basically every forum says something different, crapping on whatever solution is proposed elsewhere and saying that you'll lose your precious memories or that the proposed hardware is either not good enough, or too good for whatever anything somebody wants to do (my conclusion this far is that I either need a raspberry-pi, or a $2k investment on second hand server hardware...). So I would like to know if people here have something similar at their place and if they have recommendations for somebody trying to follow those steps. Which OS you decided to use and why? Is there's a newby-friendly solution you'd recommend? Do you have everything tucked in one machine or you have dedicated machines for everything? Or I'm good for now and I should just get a home Assistant Green? I think my old pile of junk (AKA, the laptop) is handling its two current tasks like a champ, and I'm sure it'll handle Home Assistant well, so I would like to use it as the guinea pig for this experiment. I could spend a few dozen bucks on hardware or software licences, but I would like to learn before investing on a permanent solution... Also, I'm all for giving old machines as much life as possible, so if I can keep using the laptop for something, I will. The specs of the laptop are: an i7 2630 (quad core/2GHz), 16gb of ddr3 memory, 512gb internal SSD, 1tb internal HDD + 2x 1tb external HDDs (USB 3), a Nvidia GT555M with a 1gbps ethernet connection. My specs are: intermediate coding skills (mostly python), a beginner's knowledge of Linux and CLI (I've been using it at work for about a month now) and almost zero knowledge about networking. I'm not afraid of learning new stuff, but I can't currently devote hundreds of hours of my life to learn a new skill. Thank you so much for reading this far and thank you for your recommendations as well :)

I work in a small school approximately 600 students and a 60 employee Our work varies from documents edit to management work to HR We have a local host HR program and a local question Bank and a exams bank we save and manage our students information and progress on our local server We are using a normal computer with i7 7th generation and a 8 gb of ram as a server for now we want to upgrade our network and our server setup For this type of work which is better a server with a Xeon or core processor Is the Xeon processor worth the extra money ?