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?

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    -16 months ago

    I would just go with a 2012 Mac mini, they can be upgraded to 16 gb of RAM and have 2 slots for SATA SSDs. On my work we’ve just used one to install a complete K8s cluster on it for demo purposes. People are amazed of the power from such as small form factor, quiet too!