My planned Home Assistant server for reboot

Hardware
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Hi all. I am running HAOS on a dedicated NUC today. The same instance has been running for about 3 years now and so many things have changed over the years… I want to start from scratch with new namespaces, new structure and just get a very clean start. At the same time I am restarting my entire network with a brand new site setup in my Unifi system.

My strategy is to set up a brand new network + HA instance side by side with the existing one and then migrate over devices and settings one by one from the stuff I want to continue to keep going.

In order to do this the only way is to setup a brand new barebone server for HAOS and get that fresh install on it.

I have chosen this setup and would like to hear your feedback.

My planned Home Assistant server for reboot

Base unit

  • ASUS NUC 14 Essential Barebone – Intel N250
    • 4 cores / 4 threads
    • DDR5 support
    • 1× M.2 NVMe slot
    • 2.5G Realtek LAN
    • Wi-Fi 6E + Bluetooth 5.3

Memory

  • Kingston Fury Impact 16 GB DDR5-4800 (1×16 GB)

Storage

  • WD Black SN7100 1 TB NVMe Gen4 SSD

Radio dongles (Nabu Casa / Home Assistant)

  • Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2
  • Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2

Accessories

  • USB extension cable (1 m) for each dongle → improves signal quality and reduces RF interference (as my HA server sits in a cabinet on a 19" shelf)

The total cost lands on about €600.

What do you guys think?

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Your replacing Nuc for another Nuc?
Not sure that has any benefit.

other than that sound good.

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Yeah my plan is to migrate over from the current nuc to the new one to not have a disruption to the current HA. Once competed I’ll repurpose the current nuc for another job.

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You should use proxmox then as you could setup 2 instances with the same IP address and close one down and open the other whilst working on it and then go back to the original without having to run 2 setups and all the hassle involved in reconnecting stuff to each server.

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You can’t just install HomeAssistant on the new hardware, backup the old and restore it to the new?

Put your old one away as a backup hardware option in case the new one goes bad.

Simplez!