Is this NUC any good for running HA?

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I have a friend selling one cheap, is it worth buying to run HA?

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It is an i3, even an older model i3 will run HA fine.

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Thanks for that!

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Running Proxmox on a Celeron NUC for the last few years with a 480GB SSD and 8GB of RAM. Have a Debian VM with Docker (Home Assistant, Node Red, Mosquitto, etc.), a container for Unifi, a container for PiHole, and then another VM that is just OpenVPN and Wireguard.

Runs great, super fast, and lots of processing power left over. If your goal is just home automation, the NUC you posted will work great. Don’t expect it to be a good Plex server or something its not designed for though.

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It would work well for automations. I’m running all-in-one celeron n4000, 8 gb of ram with an SSD. It’s smaller then a nuc and it was cheaper at the time I got it.

However, I’m running with a minimalistic Debian install. I’m not sure how well docker would work.

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Any NUC works great for HA.
And i would say NUC is also the bets choice for HA.

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I do have the same setup running HA under an Unraid VM as HAssOS. Works like a charm!