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Can a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8 GB of RAM handle my needs? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I recently bought a domain from Porkbun (thanks to all of the comments on this post!) and I want to self-host some services myself. I currently have a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ and I'm not quite sure if it can handle these things:

  • A matrix homeserver
  • A lemmy instance
  • A website with static HTML pages
  • Privacy-respecting frontends (Piped, Redlib etc.)

I am thinking about getting a maxed-out Raspberry Pi 5 with a whole 8 Gigabytes of RAM. Is it worth it? I need a machine that is quiet, doesn't draw that much power and is overall pretty good for the money.

Edit: I bought this Mini PC instead of the Raspberry Pi 5. Thanks to all the comments!!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've noticed the same thing. Every Intel N100-based machine costs ~200€ on Amazon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I got a Dell Optiplex for £68 on eBay to replace my pi4b Home Assistant.

It's running Home Assistant plus a Windows machine Arr stack with Plex and transcoding, a music server, a NAS storage and Adguard at the moment and I still have ram to spare.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What are you using for the NAS enclosure?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nothing as of yet, just a stack of disks on top of a pc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ah bummer. I've been wanting to retire my mid tower in favor of one of the Optiplex micros that I have but wanted something that could hold the 9 HDDs currently inside of it that wasnt a $1300 NAS but haven't found a good solution.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I'm sure there will be some kind of rack you can get that is cheaper than $1200

Edit like this https://amzn.eu/d/a75EKlh

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately I'd need some sort of backplane with it to connect it to the micro PC. I have looked at DAS options but they seem pretty uncommon and mostly relegated to no-name Chinese manufacturers on Amazon which seems risky due to questionable quality.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what a backplane is, but my HDDs are connected via usb3 cables with power chords. I'm sure there's speed constraints but it's what I've done.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

A backplane is what provides the HDDs power and data connections. A DAS is basically the drive caddy you linked to earlier with built in internal connections for each drive that then connect to a PC via a single wire.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How does your music server work?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Logitech Media Server aka Squeezebox. It works mostly on plugins. The server runs on almost anything and connects to a client software on a pi in my bedroom and 3 Google Home Minis I have dotted around my house.

It's a work in progress at the moment. I have it connected to YouTube and Spotify but I'm working on pulling all the music off my old iPod I have in the car, sorting it from the mess Apple made of the files and putting them on my NAS.

Last night I was trying to get LMS to see that music. But alas I couldn't work out how to mount a Samba share to the container so today I'm gonna be trying FTP instead.

LMS is great but it takes a lot of tinkering to customise to what you want.