I am currently looking for Thin Clients on ebay to use as my main server instead of the RPi 4 with an external USB drive.
I found decent offers for:
- Dell Optiplex 3020M with i5-4590T 4GB RAM 120GB SSD
- Dell Wyse 5070 with Celeron J4105 or Pentium Silver J5005 both with 8GB RAM 64GB SSD
Given the current prices of new hardware my questions are:
- Should I go for 8GB RAM?
- Or are 4GB RAM fine and I should take double the storage?
Things I want to run on this server:
- Karakeep
- FreshRSS
- Paperless-NGX or Papra
- Immich
- Booklore
Because I plan to mostly use podman I tried to check for virtualization and all three suppoert Intels VT-x technolgy, will that be fine for my use case?
At some point the benefit of extra RAM isn’t there anymore compared to what the CPU can actually run. With a CPU like that 8GB is probably sufficient and 16 would be merely nice to have for some additional caching.