Hopefully these kinds of posts are allowed in this community, but if not feel free to point me in the correct direction.
I currently have a Synology DS218+ (I believe, it’s one of the 2-bay + models) that I’ve been using for several years now as a home server/NAS, but I think it’s time to replace it with something new.
I’m debating building something from scratch and just throwing Linux on it. Despite having built my last 3 computers, I’m still pretty bad at understanding specs and planning out builds. I was hoping you fine folks would be able to help give me some suggestions.
The Synology is currently running (and I would expect to move these over to the new build) the following:
Plex
Tautulli
FreshRss
Mealie
Calibre
Stash
Having something purpose built for this means I’d probably explore also hosting my own music library, photo back up, pi-hole, vpn, etc.
Does anyone have suggestions of builds, or at least specific minimums I should ensure?
I’ve actually heard of Beelink before, just didn’t think about them for this.
I’m assuming I can have Plex running on the Beelink and just mount the drive on my Synology with all my files?
I’ve definitely been hitting a bit of a CPU bottleneck on the Synology recently. It looks like the Beelink’s might use a newer version of the same Intel Celeron’s. Passmark gives a mark of 4078 vs 1197 for the mini PC one, so I’m assuming it will be plenty better but I’m curious if you’ve noticed any issues with it.
I recently added a used mini pc to my lab and it has a Ryzen 3550H, 16GB ram and 512GB nvme; it cost less than 100€ total, hits almost 8000 passmark. Just to give you an idea of what you can get on the used market, I wouldn’t buy a new Celeron pc myself.