Hey all, been wanting to get into self hosting for a while. I won’t be doing a whole lot - probably just a Plex server and photo/video archives.
Maybe a personal assistant if I get really bored, lol.
At work, I’ve got a selected of taking either:
- HP Prodesk 400 G4 - i5 7th Gen
OR
- Dell Optiplex 7020
- Dell Optiplex 3010
- Dell Optiplex 3040 All Intel i5
Let me know if they’re all shit too, lol.
Many thanks
This is the way.
I will say, Jellyfin’s aggressive transcoding has brought even my relatively modern, 12-core AMD to its knees, but for everything else, more RAM has been more important than CPU or GPU specs for self-hosting. Before Jellyfin, I hosted the entire house on an ARM-based micro.
That said, the game changes if OP wants to do any LLM stuff. Memory is still important, but the GPU starts to play a bigger role.
If I could know only one stat for making a decision, though, it’d be RAM.