With all this migration i’ve been inspired to start self hosting some services.

I am looking for a mini pc to ideally run linux and host a media server with radarr and sonarr, pihole and some other stuff as i start getting more into self hosting.

Any recommendations / experiences that you can give? Or some general guidelines on what i should look for or things to avoid.

Thank you!!

  • WioxEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    Intel NUC is probably the best choice - silent, possible to have two SSDs, pretty low powered.

    Personally, I did settle with 13 Dell optiplexes 9020 SFF

    • @[email protected]English
      1•1 year ago

      If you buy used clean out the fan on em. Decent amount of them just get a caked layer of dust blocking the fan

    • @[email protected]English
      1•1 year ago

      I replaced my aging NUC with a Minisforum SFF box and am also very happy with it. Footprint is slightly larger, but actually find it much quieter. The NUC was basically silent 90% of the time too, but it had an annoying high pitched whine if you were doing something very CPU-intensive.

      Depending on model they can support up to 2 m.2s and a 2.5" drive.