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Small, Mighty, and Affordable: Mini PC Home Server
Small, Mighty, and Affordable: Mini PC Home Server
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I'm currently using 2x lenovo and 1x hp elitedesk, from like 2015-2018 in a proxmox cluster.
When you set these up, you can add on a 2.5g Usb network adapter, then set up your interfaces in a failover bond. Set up your onboard works as your backup connection and your 2.5g works as your primary connection. If you have some kind of outage, you have three different ways to recover: Power state recovery, wake on lan (using on-board mac address), and scheduled power on. Combined with High Availability, if one goes down, you can recover essential services on a second one when the primary goes down.
Critical services have high availability (failover to a second machine) and run from the local storage
Anything that's not critical runs off the nas over the 2.5g connection. In my experience, this has been good enough to run remote desktop machines using windows 10/11, to the point of using steam for homeplay to on-network mobile gaming. I'm not going to be playing twitchy games, but anything turn based or chill is doable without a problem.
What I'd really like is the ability to add on a Host Bus Adapter to give me a full nas experience on one of these. I ended up breaking and going with an asustor to provide my storage capability, specifically because it gives me a 4x m.2 slots, and back end is seemingly open.
Thanks for your video. I concour, I am fond of the idea of using those mini pc for servers.
They are lower power consumption and cheap and reliable. Thank you for sharing this video.
One thing I would like like to point out is that when I was looking for a mini pc, I looked at all of those offerings like Dell , HP, and Lenovo.
3 makers have their different approach to the mini tiny micro pc.
But the one that I liked the most was the lenovo m720q or m920q or p330 tiny. Is in the sweet spot of price, and have a PCIe port that you could populate with a 10Gbe network card or whatever you want. It brings so many new opportunities on what to do with the mini pc.
Thanks