Upgrade or sell

[PrivateZero]

I have an old Synology Disk Station DS214se (32-bit Dual Core 800 MHz, 256 MB Ram, 2 x 3TB HDD (max size and not in RAID and I got offline backups)) CPU and Ram is daily maxed out, to 100% load and it complains of low storage capacity.

 

I have upgraded my main desktop PC, form a Ryzen 1700 to a used Ryzen 3800x for 100 USD, since i am on the x370 chipset, in Collage and wanted to upgrade to Windows 11.

 

My question is, should i sell the old Ryzen 1700 for around 80 USD, or buy an compatible Motherboard for around 50 USD incl. vat, and upgrade with some storage. I have case, gpu, ram and psu. I would use it for a media and storage server, docker and VM's

[Noah0302]

Thats what I did with my old 2700, turned into a Proxmox-Server with TrueNAS (Nextcloud, Plex and PC Backups), Minecraft and TS Server, Firewall, Pihole, Mailserver and so on.

 

I love putting old hardware to use in a Server System, its gotten to a hobby of mine and I really love tinkering with it.
You can just do so much...

 

If you can afford it, I think it would be a good idea to convert your 1700 to a Server Build

[Sjaakie]

It would make a pretty decent server indeed, miles ahead in performance compared to the current NAS. Those units are great for serving files but for anything more they are a bit lacking.

 

Keep an eye on power consumption though. If you can run it headless without gpu I would (unless you really need it for transcoding or something).

[PrivateZero]

12 minutes ago, Noah0302 said:

If you can afford it, I think it would be a good idea to convert your 1700 to a Server Build

I can say, i will get a long way with a budget on 150-250 USD for the Server + old hardware. I was just afraid that a Ryzen 1700 would be overkill

 

My main use for the NAS today is media server (only storage, i would not dare to install PLEX), and sharing folders, i have my desktop, downloads, school folders etc. synchronized

[Noah0302]

14 minutes ago, PrivateZero said:

I can say, i will get a long way with a budget on 150-250 USD for the Server + old hardware. I was just afraid that a Ryzen 1700 would be overkill

 

My main use for the NAS today is media server (only storage, i would not dare to install PLEX), and sharing folders, i have my desktop, downloads, school folders etc. synchronized

Well CPUs are mostly overkill for servers, mine sits at about 3% on average, the max this week was 40%. Im more limited by RAM, haha

I would suggest using TrueNAS, if you dont want to virtualize with Proxmox or other hypervisors.

This TrueNAS, you still have the option to install Nextcloud for cloud access to your Files or other Plugins later down the road, if you feel like it and it has basic virtualization features.

Best part is, if you use an SSD for boot and HDDs for the storage pool, you can import the pool on a virtualized TrueNAS Installation aswell. Just have to pass the disks through to the VM.

 

 

So start out as small as you like, you can always upgrade down the road, just do what youre comfortable with.