I’ve been planning out a proxmox server for when I eventually have money. (Shut up. It can happen. Shut up!) but I saw something today that got me thinking. Minisforums makes some pretty nice shit at a reasonable price. The entire minis market has actually become pretty great while I wasn’t looking.

I need proxmox hosting opnsense, frigate, jellyfin, homeassistant, BitTorrent, immich, sunshine, steam, and i2pd.

So there are obvious advantages to building my own shit with a trip to microcenter. But maybe these micro machines could actually handle this shit anymore. Opinions?

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    17 hours ago

    Almost my entire (excessive) setup is a bunch of used, off lease tiny/mini/micros.

    Most ive bought for about $100, then tossed some minor upgrades to like an m2 ssd, maxing out ram, etc, so under $200 altogether historically. Clustered with proxmox, so I even have high availability.

    Yes, minis are great. Just do storage elsewhere, which can be a NAS or a generic box you load up with drives.

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        16 hours ago

        Lots of ppl deploy sunshine on n100 mini PCs with quicksync, you dont really need a gpu that way.

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          16 hours ago

          An N100 is not going to do what I want to punish this thing with. I have an N100 build going now. It’s good but it is what it is and it’s not going to handle steam games.

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            16 hours ago

            If you’re talking about streaming steam games at 4k, then maybe. But at that point build a dedicated machine.

            Sunshine works fine with n100 quicksync for 1080p streaming, plus frigate. I’m running both of these on an 11th gen i5 with a coral tpu for frigate.

            Not sure what your “punishment” is for hardware, but your current list really isn’t that demanding.

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                7 hours ago

                IDS, L4 firewall and video streaming from the same machine? It can be done.

                Should you do it? That’s a lesson I’m gonna leave to you to learn yourself. For personal growth.

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                  4 hours ago

                  With 2 pinned CPU cores, pci passthru of an Intel dual port NIC, RAM disk for logs, it should be fine. I see no issue.

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        17 hours ago

        I’ve got three with quadros in them.

        There are definitely options. No youre not shoving a full size GPU in there, but there are options.

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            17 hours ago

            Depends on the model.

            I can say for jellyfin transcoding, the igpu is plenty. The quadros only get used for transcoding and some misc cad use and other such things.

            Given the recommended GPU w/ HDR specs for Sunshine - Intel HD Graphics 730 or higher - thats easily accomplished, even used. I couldn’t say how well it runs though as I don’t use it myself.

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              17 hours ago

              I wish SR-IOV support was more common. I suspect I will end up with an Intel GPU most things and an AMD GPU on passthru for the games. So needlessly inefficient.

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                17 hours ago

                I mean, thats what my quadros are. There is an Intel igpu plus the quadro, I find it more efficient because I can dedicate them to tasks more easily.

                I agree sr-iov being better adopted would be great, but I also realize I’m not really a candidate either, I find the split approach best for my needs.