My use case is a homelab kubernetes cluster, so I want multiple nodes for redundancy, but I don’t want to use too much electricity or generate too much heat. But for the sake of other readers, let’s keep it general:

What’s a nice little computer for a homelab, with its own power supply, ethernet, and room for 2 internal disks?

  • yaroto98@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    8 hours ago

    Irregular answer since everyone already covered the good ones: old phones with sdcard slots.

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      Be careful with old phone batteries if you’re going to leave it somewhere plugged in for months

    • nsnitko@infosec.pubEnglish
      3·
      3 hours ago

      Is there a sort of guide for this? I have a cracked old phone i’ve been looking for a use for.

      • yaroto98@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        You can go as easy as using termux, or as hard as using postmarketos. Plenty of guides online.

  • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    7 hours ago

    Bee-link and GMKtec make some tiny computers purposely designed to be home servers. I thankfully got a ME mini NAS before the LLM apocalypse and it is a beast that can expand up to 24TB. It comes with an Intel N150 that runs all my personal services and consumes almost no power at all. But they also make other smaller models (the ME mini is already minuscule for what it does) that can fit 2 M.2 disks and they all have their own power supply and ethernet connection. The only problem is that the prices have skyrocketed because RAM and solid state storage starvation.

    They are still, somehow, cheaper than Raspberry’s post-price hikes while being more powerful.

  • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
    5·
    9 hours ago

    ARM SBC or NUC with an N150 processor

    Edit: oh, 2 internal disks? What kind, nvme, 2.5" ssd, or 3.5" hdd?

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    9 hours ago

    A mini PC is likely a good fit. Depending on the one you have they will have space for an extra nvme drive or a 2.5 inch data ssd.

    You can load Proxmox and run as many VMs or lxc K8s workers.

  • cpbsy@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    31·
    9 hours ago

    I know Pi used to be the trendy answer, but I’ve been hearing about how their value/money isn’t what it used to be. What’s the latest advice?