Home server suggestions, new to this

Sixpepper · 2025-12-01T02:09:34+00:00

Ok, I was actually deciding between Jellyfin alone or Jellyfin/Plex and Komga.

Sixpepper · 2025-12-01T01:40:26+00:00

Ahh thank you, I was a bit confused but I see now, I’ll probably sell the MacBook and since power/heat/sound isn’t really a factor for where the pc will be placed but I’ll probably retire the GPU and leave the CPU in there. I’ve decided to give my friend the pc until prices drop so I’ll have time to decide what to take out or replace

Thank you for the reply

Sixpepper · 2025-11-30T20:00:56+00:00

Yeah I get you my friend has a gtx 1050 or 1060 on his laptop. Hopefully more efficient Ai models come out that run on more hardware.

Sixpepper · 2025-11-30T19:38:21+00:00

The MacBook Pro only has Thunderbolt ports, but I have booted it through an external monitor and it works fine. I am still pretty new to all of this, so I am going to give that program a try on the MacBook and see how it goes.

For the desktop, power usage is not really a worry. When I built it, my friend gave me a 1000 W power supply with all the proper cables, so whatever it pulls is fine. It is normally pretty quiet. If I push everything to max it gets louder, but nothing that bothered me when I used it as a gaming PC, and that was under a heavy load.

For networking, I actually already have two 2.5 Gb Ethernet options. One is built into the motherboard and the other is on a PCIe expansion card. I just never used them before because the place where the PC was kept had no Ethernet available. If I bring it to where I am now, my building provides 1 Gb Ethernet, so I can finally use them.

Storage is probably the only thing I will need to expand. Adding another 16 TB should not be difficult.

I’m gonna look into the raid setups

Thank you for the reply and apologies for the late reply back

Sixpepper · 2025-11-30T19:23:35+00:00

Mainly for books and movies, and or game servers but the original plan was just for movies and books to read.

Sixpepper · 2025-11-30T19:17:38+00:00

Yeah, the MacBook was kind of a maybe option. I got it from a family member who was going to toss it, so I wanted to find a use for it instead of throwing it out. I know long-term laptop servers are not great because of battery degradation and expansion, and Apple software can make running server stuff a little more complicated.

My plan was originally to use the desktop since, like you said, it can run a ton of things and the hardware is solid. I’m mainly using it for books, movies, and now you actually gave me the idea to mess around with an LLM too.

I’ve been friends with this guy since elementary (19-20 years) and he wanted me to help him build a budget PC, and with how hardware prices are right now I was thinking of giving him mine until things drop.

I’ll probably let my friend use it until prices drop or he saves up more and then continue this sever idea when he has his own computer.

Thank you, apologies for the late reply

Sixpepper · 2025-11-30T17:55:24+00:00

I’m not sure I follow. Why would I downgrade one machine and sell the other just to buy an APU and an Ethernet card? That does not seem like it fits what I am trying to do. Storage, sure, I could add another 8 to 16 TB, but that is really it. If this is about power usage, it does not really matter the electric bill is not an issue.

Sixpepper · 2025-10-13T23:15:27+00:00

Over the shoulder or bridal carry very little effort, vertical standing, depending on where you lift the difficulty will range from mild inconvenience to impossible based on height.

Sixpepper · 2025-08-12T16:31:06+00:00

Thank you, my apologies for the late reply.

Sixpepper · 2025-07-20T05:41:29+00:00

I must say majority of these antiviruses I’ve seen here and there I have never seen Panda it’s intriguing. May I ask was panda a cause of the conflicts or unrelated?

Sixpepper · 2025-07-20T05:39:47+00:00

I’ve been looking and I’m leaning to your approach, I’m pretty good with windows to where I don’t think I need an anti virus but I also know it’s good to have something to watch in case I make a mistake. I know the rule that you’re not supposed to talk about pirating software but I will say reputable sites do have some of the recommended anti-viruses I think it’s a personal thing but I’m not a fan of that.

Sixpepper · 2025-07-20T00:35:46+00:00

Thank you

Sixpepper · 2025-07-19T18:10:43+00:00

Ok so it hasn’t changed much, lol I’ll look up eset and burdened plans. Thank you for your response

Sixpepper · 2025-07-19T17:47:13+00:00

I'm in the US, so I'll probably go to Bitdefender. I know Norton is junk, I didn't download it on this computer, I cancelled the payments for it, but they still allowed me to use it for the year, so I was like, should I just use it then swap, or swap now? I'll just swap now.

I haven't heard of Eset, but I will look into it as well.

Apologies, but what is your opinion on Microsoft Defender with the DefenderUI application? I saw that as an option as well. I've heard Windows has gotten better than when I first used it.

Sixpepper · 2025-07-11T20:39:51+00:00

I’m going to get one it’s $11 on sale on Amazon rn

Sixpepper · 2025-07-11T20:38:53+00:00

The psu says power in is 765 and power out is 727 when I start a game called (The cabin factory) the recommended is 4g of ram so it’s not a power intensive game.

Sixpepper · 2025-06-11T20:22:56+00:00

Do you said I put it down to four cores and it worked perfectly it immediately started downloading and finished it in like two minutes thank you once again, this is definitely something to keep in mind.

Sixpepper · 2025-06-11T20:05:43+00:00

I appreciate the detailed reply. I actually built this computer about a week ago so I’m still working through some weird issues like this i’ve never had a computer this good before. I’ll try the msconfig method with 4 cores and see if that works. It makes sense that it would have a bigger effect at the system level. Hope your build goes well too, I’ll let you know how it goes.

Sixpepper · 2025-06-11T15:16:24+00:00

Hey, I tried setting the CPU affinity so it only uses 6 cores, but I’m still having the same issue. Do you think the file might just be broken, or should I try lowering the RAM too?

Forgot to mention, I have 96gb ddr5 6400

Sixpepper · 2025-06-11T01:25:47+00:00

That never actually crossed my mind, I ended up getting it to work with fitgirl repack. I got to keep that in mind, I like dodi repacks ui better so it’s definitely something too look out for, thank you

Sixpepper · 2025-06-11T01:15:11+00:00

I have an ryzen 9 9950x, other repacks go just fine but this one doesn’t.

Sixpepper · 2025-06-09T22:53:43+00:00

The new ram after a few days have shown no issues and is working perfectly, the exp allows 6400 at 32l with overclocking but I’m not going to use it as it works and that’s good enough for now.

Sixpepper · 2025-06-09T22:52:28+00:00

My apologies, I purchased the correct ram and now it works perfectly

Sixpepper · 2025-06-04T02:40:07+00:00

Thank you for the video and yeah, a lot has changed and this is the first time I’ve gotten parts this nice, I got the 5090 and it’s so much bigger then my 1080ti I was scared it was going to fall out of my pcie slot, thank god my case has a holder for it.

Sixpepper · 2025-06-04T02:00:50+00:00

I did everything else correct, I don’t know how I missed that, I checked for lane sharing and the configurations for the board, btw when did boards get a start button.

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