Hello everyone,

I am looking for a new home server to replace my existing hp proliant microserver gen8.

Requirements:

  1. Reduce power consumption. It currently runs at around 60 watts at idle, I would like to reduce that.

  2. Enough performance for various docker containers

  3. Enough power for 4k HDR video transcoding for a jellyfin container, whether graphics unit in the CPU or an additional graphics card doesn’t matter

  4. At least 4 SATA ports and space for 2 m.2 SSDs

  5. 16GB of RAM is a minimum

It doesn’t have to be a ready-made solution, I have no problem putting everything together myself.

Edit: Budget is ~500€

  • Dr. JenkemAEnglish
    121·
    1 year ago

    I don’t know for certain, but I think you’ll ultimately have to decide between either low power consumption or 4k transcoding. I doubt you’ll be able to achieve both.

      • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
        73·
        1 year ago

        Wow, that’s pretty slick. Thanks, you may have just solved one of my project plans.

        At that price/performance, it would supplant 4 Raspberry Pis I was planning on using for a variety of tasks.

        I’ve been lazily running a gaming desktop as a “server” for far too long. Trying to reduce power consumption now.

        • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          It’s pretty sweet. I went the other way, starting on a Pi 4, moved up to a cheap ($110) Celeron N3350 device, then finally this little beast when I started getting HDR content and needing to transcode with tonemapping. 4 times the RAM, double the cores and it’s just way faster in general.

          It’d also be perfect for light desktop use IMO

      • Dr. JenkemAEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        And you’re able to transcode 4k with that? 1080p with hardware offload isn’t surprising, but 4k really requires some extra horsepower.

        EDIT: Maybe I’m wrong, seems like quicksync even on a Celeron has gotten pretty good.

        • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Yep, 4k to 4k tonemapping, even, which was one of the use-cases my previous Celeron N3350 server couldn’t handle (it got ~14 fps)

      • GerPrimus@feddit.deOPEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        That would be conceivable, but I would like to pack my existing HDDs in a case if possible

        • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, in my case I host my hard drives on a cheap ARM Synology NAS and an external drive plugged into an M1 Mac Mini running Asahi. Just have an external SSD plugged into the Jellyfin server as a cache/transcodes drive

      • 8tomat8@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        This is really good, do you know if I can plug my 4tb m2 ssd in there? If yes, I’m moving tomorrow😁

        • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I haven’t personally opened it up, but it does internally use a replaceable m.2 NVME SSD according to the info that came with it, so you should be able to.

          • 8tomat8@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            It does. What concerns me is the sign “up to 2TB”. And I don’t understand if it is a limitation of preinstalled os or hardware.

      • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
        34·
        1 year ago

        Wow, that’s pretty slick. Thanks, you may have just solved one of my project plans.

        At that price/performance, it would supplant 4 Raspberry Pis I was planning on using for a variety of tasks.

        I’ve been lazily running a gaming desktop as a “server” for far too long. Trying to reduce power consumption now.