Recommendations for a newbie

[Brebst]

Hi!

 

I want to build a server and a NAS for a home media center. I have a been trying to use Jellyfin, radarr and so on, on a really small and old mini computer I had laying around, but it’s not strong enough.

 

Does anybody have some recommendations for what parts I should buy? I want to run a home assistant, some VM’s and Containers, and as mentioned, the media part. 
 

preferably I want the server and the hard drives in two different cases.

[Needfuldoer]

16 minutes ago, Brebst said:

preferably I want the server and the hard drives in two different cases.

Why? That's an unnecessary complication. I'm running a "real" server with a dozen hard drives, and it's all in one 2RU chassis.

 

Anything that's Skylake or newer should be fine as a home server for the foreseeable future. If you want tons of RAM for relatively cheap, Haswell or Broadwell era LGA2011-3 workstations can take registered ECC DDR4 and don't cost much more than scrap value these days. (Though LGA2066 is coming down in price too, and those Xeons can take the same cheap RAM.)

[Brebst]

7 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

Why? That's an unnecessary complication. I'm running a "real" server with a dozen hard drives, and it's all in one 2RU chassis.

 

Anything that's Skylake or newer should be fine as a home server for the foreseeable future. If you want tons of RAM for relatively cheap, Haswell or Broadwell era LGA2011-3 workstations can take registered ECC DDR4 and don't cost much more than scrap value these days. (Though LGA2066 is coming down in price too, and those Xeons can take the same cheap RAM.)

A friend of mine said that keeping them separated was the best way to go. I have no idea why tho, I'm kind of new to all of this 

 

Do you recommend have just a normal PSU (like the ones in gaming computers) or having redundant PSU's?

[jaslion]

6 minutes ago, Brebst said:

A friend of mine said that keeping them separated was the best way to go. I have no idea why tho, I'm kind of new to all of this 

 

Do you recommend have just a normal PSU (like the ones in gaming computers) or having redundant PSU's?

I think there's like about 5 layers of context missing why you should split.

 

Psu just a regular single is fine at most get a active ups.

 

Sounds like either a ryzen 5600g based pc or some random older office pc with 6 cores will do well enough here