I have never homelabbed, and this is going to be my first experience. I want to set up a home server. My current goals are to set up a gallery using Immich, an ad blocker/DNS using Pi-hole, and a cloud service.

I want you to suggest what second-hand PC or laptop I should get. I researched a bit and found out that a PC is better because of 24/7 reliability, better cooling, no risk of laptop battery swelling, easy RAM and storage expandability, and low idle power consumption.

What I think the specs should be for me is 12 GB RAM and 256 GB storage. And my budget is 10k INR.

I want to hear your thoughts. Thank you! :)

  • notaviking@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 hours ago

    I bought myself an HP elitedesk G3 800, they come in three skews: mini, small form factor and tower.

    I bought the tower. There is so much room. Look at the Elitedesk G4 800 because there you get 8 and 9th gen intel.

    But I love mine, planning to put in three large HDD in her, already have two 2.5 SSD, I have been scouting ram and got relatively cheap second hand ram deals, with 32gb in the system. I am planning on getting the 7700t (the t variant is the low power draw version).

    But the thing is quiet and can be upgraded but also just plonked on a desk and left to run no worries

    • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 hours ago

      I have a G3 600 I got recently. It’s a solid HA and haiku system running on top of proxmox.