after much googling…

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LHvT2fRp7I6Hf18LcSzsNnjp10VI-odvwZpQZKv\_NCI/edit#gid=0

I’ll see if i can find it when I’m not on mobile, but there was a list floating around of low power builds. I think it was from a German forum.

I’d replace basically everything with a pair of n100 based things. They’d be faster, better at transcoding, and use less power. I’d you want a bit more grunt or ram, a i3 13100.

You have 12 hard drives, so that’s about 130watts (10-15w each). Can you consolidate down to 2 or 3 larger capacity drives?

If you are looking for marginal gains, move pihole and home assistant to containers or tiny vms on one of the other systems.

So i guess my recommendation, one of those chinese n100 firewall boxes, run proxmox, with *sense in a vm and pass through 2 or 3 nics, pihole and HA in containers. Build a i3 13100 based system with 64+gb ddr5, put 2, 3, or 4 large capacity drives along with a pair of ssds for guest storage. Virtualize everything else. My guess is that whole stack would idle at 50w or 60w, and could maybe draw 150w.

You might need more gpu than the igpu in a i3 13100, but a intel A380 would cover that.

Not the op, but… I wish there was a simple way to centralize users, uids, gids, group membership, and maybe even ssh keys across hosts. Ideally this would be as simple as install package on new host, point at server, wait. I’d settle for managing Windows users and samba separately.

It would also be really cool if there was some easy integration with proxmox LXCs to enable mapping a list(s) of uids/gids into unprivileged containers.

Really long term homedirs, and windows user folders. So my kids and i could just hot desk at any computer in the house. I’d settle for just mounting a drive with their files.

Whenever there is a proxmox kernel update. Every few years to dust them If i get new hardware.

I’m running proxmox + lxc for samba. Works fine. I’d say the decision is do you want a server that moonlights as a nas, or a nas that moonlights as a server.

I have not tried trunas (scale or core), i have data on an existing mdraid setup that i knew i could get working with proxmox.

Correct*, unless you vpn home. Please don’t run a publicly accessible dns server. It’s going to get used in a dns amplification attack.

*And even then only for devices that use your dns server. Many iot devices have hard coded dns servers to use. And with dns-over-https (DoH) they will get pretty close to unblockable.

unbound adblock is what I’m using. Hand it a couple of pihole lists and it fits the same thing without the fancy gui.

1. Like everyone else, raid is not a backup.

2. dont use hardware raid, use some sort of software defined thing, like zfs or btrfs.

3. the last suggestion i saw for zfs that seemed credible was to use mirrored pairs of disks.

So basically, buy a second 12tb drive, slap both in some sort of old desktop, setup truenas, and sort out a backup strategy.