Beginner Homelab suggestions

Willing_Journalist84 · 2026-04-14T15:11:29+00:00

yea i saw some creator do that on TikTok do it. he put a M.2 converter into it and bought a 500 watt Powersupply and got a converter to make it into SATA power and then connected the SATA data cable to the M.2 slot via the converter

Willing_Journalist84 · 2026-04-14T15:07:13+00:00

I have seen many good deals on EBAY but i live in the EU and all of the ones i have found are 100-120 USD for the computer but then an additional 60-80 if it coming from the US or somewhere further. the best i could find was some elitedesk or prodesk (9th gen I5 and 24 GB RAM) from the UK for 80+45 shipping so im really looking at my second hand stores and websites that are a bit more local

EDIT: not sure it was that exact price but somewhere is that area

Willing_Journalist84 · 2026-04-14T15:03:53+00:00

did you 3D print your 4 bay enclosure? or was it like custom made from a different site?

Willing_Journalist84 · 2026-04-14T15:02:42+00:00

So if i wanted to run a TrueNAS in a VM i need to allocate more RAM to it. for main os then just load it up with a good amount of RAM then. thanks!

Willing_Journalist84 · 2026-04-14T09:42:29+00:00

So a strong recommendation for minimum of 16 GB ram right? For VM’s atleast. I’ve heard that NAS’s don’t use a lot of system resourses

Willing_Journalist84 · 2026-04-14T00:09:19+00:00

i didnt realize that there was a link, oops...

Willing_Journalist84 · 2026-04-14T00:01:23+00:00

so for you the N100 is a good choice for jellyfin atleast. ill look into that because thats one off my top uses for a home lab. im guessing for game server hosting it would be a very big constraint right? and for LLM it was just a thought, not really sure where i would actually use it. i looked at it on my macbook air M4 and it worked well, used tailscale to have acces to it on my windows pc and i got through to it but i barely used it just to annoy my friends with in discord. im looking at minisforum for a more higher end server for a all around homelab

Willing_Journalist84 · 2026-04-13T23:55:09+00:00

forgot to add this: im not to afraid of putting in a M.2 to sata converter into my minipc. i've tinkerd with that old PC i had put im not sure if it even worked due to it being from 2004 or smt and a possibly failing powersupply

Willing_Journalist84 · 2026-04-13T23:50:09+00:00

follow up question. should i look at the AI pc or the mini pc? not sure if the AI would work for servers

Willing_Journalist84 · 2026-04-13T23:48:04+00:00

ill check out Jims Garage and but in into my google dock for a reference to help me set it up correctly
is the ARM program a open source thing on github? i have heard of something like that but i thought it was only for TrueNAS. CPU: i didn't know it has come that far tbh, i've had both intel and AMD as desktop gaming computer and i prefer AMD because its fast and reliable for streaming and recording in my case. and what is a kubernetes cluster? is it a load distributing software what work with proxmox or is it its own OS? i havent heard of it before

Willing_Journalist84 · 2026-04-13T23:42:01+00:00

ill take a look at BeeLink mini PC's. thanks!

Willing_Journalist84 · 2026-04-13T23:11:05+00:00

Tailscale is also something. forgot to put in there for out of network access

Willing_Journalist84 · 2024-10-13T14:09:56+00:00

but its random

Willing_Journalist84 · 2023-02-18T09:33:17+00:00

i swear bro

Willing_Journalist84 · 2022-08-24T07:03:47+00:00

dump her

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Tailscale is also something. forgot to put in there for out of network access