Thanks to @magnus919, I’m rethinking my wants and needs for #homelab upgrade. Do I really need an enterprise rig?
Currently, I have a few Raspberry Pi’s I’m tinkering with, but I am definitely ready to level up, to do more work with virtual machines, run a Minecraft server with zero lag, maybe host a mastodon server, plus the usual storage and streaming things.
Later, I want to expand with a setup specifically for machine learning, but that is its own project.
@theprint @magnus919 Need, or want?
For what you described, even a laptop is fine. But, nothing wrong with wanting moar power!
I run all my core services on a laptop. Minecraft, Valheim, Plex, *arrs etc. The only thing that gives it any trouble at all is transcoding 4K Dolby vision content, because the GPU is too old to use for acceleration.
I fire my rack server up for fun, but between noise/power draw it’s totally unnecessary. More bays is really the only win
@quasifrodo @magnus919 I do have an older laptop as part of my current mishmash of devices, but it’s only good under very low load or if I don’t care if it takes a while. I use it mainly for managing my pi’s and monitoring.
But yes, I also just want MOAR POWAH to do all the things. 😁