Hardware for my new home server

Hardware
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I will go the route using proxmox for my new home server. What hardware are you using. Main usage will be HA and software around HA. Mariadb mqtt, frigate etc

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x86 multi-core APU, 16GB RAM, SSD for OS and HDD for data. Sizing is up to you.

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Thanks. i have a Beelink gtr5 with 64 gb ram and 8 cores. It has only an nvme and an ssd but size is more than sufficient

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I am using Beelink U59 Pro, 16 GB version, 500GB SSD, bought around 230 euro.

I am very pleased with the idle electricity consumption, 5 to 6 watts. Sometime it hits 12 to 15 watts, but rarely, probably when I work on it. Granted, this is a new HA with only a handful thing (Energy board, map, few ApexCharts, etc.), no devices yet.

HA is running on VM, inside Proxmox. I will install Jellyfin later on this mini PC :smiley:

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I understand that the gtr 5 is overkill but its here anyway waiting to be used. The new for me will be proxmox but I am retired and have a lot of time to learn. Its the journey that is the fun

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Mine is a tangential question…

Why?

I see Proxmox mentioned often, but I have yet to grok what is so compelling about adding another layer of complexity if the end target is to run Home Assistant. I run my Home Assistant on an Intel NUC i5 using the binary file from Home Assistant. I like the simplicity. I have other NUCs (bought used on eBay for less than $100 each) that run other programs and for general Ubuntu fooling around (some call it experiments).

So, what am I missing by not using Proxmox or other virtual environments?

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Well I want to have all on the same server. Not two machines. I have the same now but use virtualbox with debian as host. But now when I upgrade I decided to go the proxmox route. As I see it proxmox is much more stable than virtualbox. And its built on debian so I will be in familiar territory. I am sure there are many ways to do this, I have chosen this.

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If so, skip Proxmox and head for Linux containers using Docker and Docker Compose. Or Podman.

Portainer can be used when graphical interface is required.

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Docker is not interesting, even if HAOS is a lot of containers. It will be proxmox. I am just interested in the hardware, and I think I have planned correct

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Proxmox was new to me, and had a small learning curve. I have it running on a 7-year-old laptop where it’s been rock solid. One thing I really like is the ease of making and restoring backups of the whole environment. When there is a new HA release, I make a clone of my current HA VM environment in just a few minutes, then apply the release. If there are issues, I can just shut down the VM and launch the backup VM, again in just a couple minutes.

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I get old supermicro and dell rack servers

Dual i7 64GB or more ram for $30USD
6 drives 2-8TB each

I looked at power use of these vs NUC and i’m not sure the small benefit in use over large benefit of resources and stable hardware are worth downsize. I feel anything that is jot multibay will require i run a second server since frigate and plex require at least 6-8TB each.

Plex is becoming less needed each year because of streaming. Went from daily use, to monthly, i do believe given another 10yr i may stop using.

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I have a

HP EliteDesk 800 G1

Has not miss a beat got the montor bracket mounted under the desk put a M.2 NVMe PCIe 265G SSD 3 months ago

AdGuard Home (4.8.0),
EMQX (0.2.1),
ESPHome (2022.12.8),
FTP (4.6.2),
Grocy (0.18.3),
InfluxDB (4.5.0),
MQTT Explorer (browser-1.0.1),
Matter Server (2.1.0),
Node-RED (14.0.2),
Samba Backup (5.2.0),
Samba share (10.0.0),
Studio Code Server (5.5.2),
TasmoAdmin (0.23.0),
Terminal & SSH (9.6.1),
chrony (2.5.0),
motionEye (0.18.0),
rtl_433 (0.3.1), working on this now
Glances (0.17.2)

And shit it’s fast

Over kill yes but it control my house

Next upgrade mem to 16 I think

Only down side is AdGuard as that my DHCP server also so when it’s Down it down like when I did a SSD upgrade had to think out side the box get on the web have the work flow sorted now .

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Thanks. I have a plex running in my friends datacenter so that is ok. My cameras only record on motion so it will not take up that much space and if needed I can always connect an external hdd.

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I have this same machine. Can I ask if you are using Frigate? And if so have you managed to get hardware acceleration working. Thanks.