Need advice to buy a NUC
reddit / selfhosted

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iQuickGaming · 2023-11-16 20:01

hi, i currently have a Raspberry Pi 4 and im hosting Home Assistant,
PiHole, NextCloud and some small projects i made. I would like to host
Jellyfin, Bitwarden and some other stuff aswell. Also my storage is
literally 2 USB sticks of 32 GB each in a RAID 0 config.
I'd like to buy a NUC or something similar to be able to plug some
HDDs and configure them in RAID1 so i have redundancy, i also need
some 1080p encoding capabilities and it doesn't have to consume too
much power. Which NUC would you recommend?

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pooamalgam · 2023-11-16 20:13

It's not a NUC, but it seems like an [Odroid-
H3+](https://ameridroid.com/products/odroid-h3?variant=40896197820450)
would probably work well for your needs.

It has two SATA ports for HDDs and the N6005 CPU would be able to
handle 1080p encoding reasonably well.

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thekrautboy · 2023-11-16 20:16

Try subs that actually are more about hardware, maybe /r/HomeServer
/r/Homelab etc.

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iQuickGaming · 2023-11-16 20:17

i forgot about those. Thanks a lot

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Sajberspejs · 2023-11-16 20:22

I don't think a nuc is a good idea. Get something with a few sata
ports.

You probably want at least one for the OS and and least 2 for your
raid 1.

But remember raid 1 is not a backup, it's higher availability. You can
still loose everything without a proper backup.

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GregPL151 · 2023-11-16 20:57

Used thin clients can be found cheap, offer good performance and you
can always make a cluster out of them if you need. Or used mini PCs if
you need more performance.

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sk1nT7 · 2023-11-16 21:09

HM90 Nuc by Minisforum. Fits two 2.5" disks as well as an additional
NVME onboard for the OS.

1. Install proxmox on the NVME
2. Create a TrueNAS VM and passthrough the SSD's into TrueNAS. Let
TrueNAS handle the mirrored ZFS pool
3. Profit

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triksterMTL · 2023-11-17 01:21

I got a Synology NAS and run several Docker containers, including HA
(that was on a Pi before).

It works great!

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