I’d like to buy an ex company PC to serve as home server, as an upgrade for my raspberry pi. It should run some selfhosted services like Frigate and Immich, and perhaps Jellyfin. I was thinking to buy an 9th gen Intel or later ex company PC. It should be energy efficient as well.

I tried looking at Trademe but you can’t filter on CPU generation. I could search on the exact Intel cpu number but that seems too restrictive. Pbtech is too expensive what I saw. I haven’t tried Marketplace but guess that’s the same. Some reddit post suggested Dell Optiplex, but no idea how their type numbering works.

Any tips?

  • @Viper_NZ
    3•6 months ago

    I’d recommend looking for one with vPro.

    With it you’ll be able to connect to the console of the desktop just like a proper high end server (video, keyboard & mouse interaction via VNC as well as remote power on/off)

    For years my plex server was a Lenovo m93p Tiny for this reason.

    • @sylverstreamOP
      3•6 months ago

      Thanks, didn’t know vPro. Was planning to run Linux on it and access it via Putty, similar to my rpi. Perhaps I’ll run Windows on it but with the way MS goes with Windows I’m less inclined to do so. Linux seems a better choice to me.

      Will look into vPro, looks cool.

      • @Viper_NZ
        2•6 months ago

        You can mount ISOs remotely too so it’s completely headless.

    • @AWOL_muppet
      2•6 months ago

      I never used this, despite all my work gigs - dunno why, it sounds neat!