I’m trying to start out self-hosting and was looking for some good servers. I have a budget of ~100 USD and am in the US. I was initially going to get some type of raspberry pi but they seem to always be sold out here

  • terribleplan@lemmy.nrd.liEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I tried to move to my storage onto a bunch of ODROID HC4s in a cluster of some sort, but found them to be quite unreliable. Also, needing one machine for every 2 disks was going to be a nightmare from a space (they are not space efficient or designed to be racked), networking, power (PSU and wiring), cost (~$100 per unit including overhead for networking and wiring), and management perspective. I am running 32 disks and always growing, I just bought a Supermicro JBOD that has 36 bays in 4u plus the SAS cabling and card I needed for well under the $1600 the same number of HC4s would cost.

    • Freeman@lemmy.pubEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Yeah I just use iscsi from a nas for storage. Specifically using cheaper sata SSDs.

      Have considered moving to 10gbe and nvme SSDs for the bandwidth increase but the lab does fine as it tbh.