Want to make a small home server/lab, get jellyfin QBittorrent and other plugins on it to have media hosted by myself, also to make my own Inviduos instance because a lot of them are being targeted right now, shifting IPs works but they still persist.
Have a rasppi4 that I used for some projects, but I think for the amount of storage that I want to put initially and then upscale would be too hard on that little thing. Plus transfer speeds. Also the processing power probably wouldn’t be great for them big movies.
Would want to get a case with the big HDD/SSD cage, some motherboard, a chip that can handle 4K processing and then RAM with expansion(albeit I will start with 8 to 16 gb), then a good power supply so I can handle the bill. So in general I’m looking at old office equipment to get stuff cheap, and efficient in electricity use.
Now to the question, I’m looking for good marketplaces in EU that have that sort of stuff. Anything will be good and if you can give several it would be even better. Thanks a lot!
Your most cost effective move is gonna be finding several generations past gaming cases that had huge hard drive bays for some reason, getting a 6th(?) gen intel motherboard and processor off some offices junk pile and slapping it into that big fucker case.
Things to look out for in your motherboard search: sata ports obviously, but also at least two pcie slots that are like 4x or above. Those are gonna let you slap in additional cards with sata ports and eventually when you go full brainworms, a sas host and expander card.
Don’t do a raid for your data array. Accessing data has to spin up all the drives at once and that means your aging power supply will falter sooner. Some kind of jbod like mergerfs with a daily parity calculation like snapraid will be easier on the system and work just fine.