New To The Home Media Server World

[trevb0t]

Hey all!

 

I've been building PCs for several years, but I've just never touched servers. I don't have a NAS, I've only touched Linux on my Steam Deck, and as far as the wide world of stuff that a home server can do, I'm entirely fresh.

That said, I'm becoming interested in setting up a server for my household, both to back up all of my family photos, kids videos, etc; and to begin backing up my legally obtained media.

 

My budget is low right now, but I do have a few unused older office PCs lying around, which I know CAN become home servers. The question is: are they going to be sufficient for my use case?

 

Currently on hand I've got some Dell OEM systems with i5-3470 and i5-4470s in them. I've also got an HP with an i7-7700. 

 

Really all I want to run is stuff like Jellyfin, Radarr, Sonarr, OpenBooks, NextCloud, PhotoPrism, and to operate as a basic NAS.

Is there anything within this line of operation that would require more than an i5-3470?

[ZeusXI]

47 minutes ago, trevb0t said:

Really all I want to run is stuff like Jellyfin, Radarr, Sonarr, OpenBooks, NextCloud, PhotoPrism, and to operate as a basic NAS.

Is there anything within this line of operation that would require more than an i5-3470?

Zimablade / Zimaboard exists for SBC. Easily can run dockers

Also, mini PCs from Minisforum do a good job and are low power. I have 4 of them for server use. 

[m9x3mos]

51 minutes ago, trevb0t said:

Hey all!

 

I've been building PCs for several years, but I've just never touched servers. I don't have a NAS, I've only touched Linux on my Steam Deck, and as far as the wide world of stuff that a home server can do, I'm entirely fresh.

That said, I'm becoming interested in setting up a server for my household, both to back up all of my family photos, kids videos, etc; and to begin backing up my legally obtained media.

 

My budget is low right now, but I do have a few unused older office PCs lying around, which I know CAN become home servers. The question is: are they going to be sufficient for my use case?

 

Currently on hand I've got some Dell OEM systems with i5-3470 and i5-4470s in them. I've also got an HP with an i7-7700. 

 

Really all I want to run is stuff like Jellyfin, Radarr, Sonarr, OpenBooks, NextCloud, PhotoPrism, and to operate as a basic NAS.

Is there anything within this line of operation that would require more than an i5-3470?

For a couple of users, the hardware you have will work fine. 

Jellyfin for GPU encoding might be a little odd as I don't know if it supports intel but it might. I don't use that app. 

Toss on linux mint and docker and you can start setting that stuff up. 

[trevb0t]

2 hours ago, m9x3mos said:

For a couple of users, the hardware you have will work fine. 

Jellyfin for GPU encoding might be a little odd as I don't know if it supports intel but it might. I don't use that app. 

Toss on linux mint and docker and you can start setting that stuff up. 

Would like a GTX 1050 make life easier in this regard? Would an older like GTX650? I've got both on hand, currently unused...

[m9x3mos]

Largely I have had better luck getting nvidia to work with transcoding in Linux. The 650 won't have the nvenc encoder for acceleration though, but the 1050 does.