I have a refurbished Lenovo Thinkcentre that I was running Truenas off of. Everything was working great, but it got hit with a power surge and after lots of trouble shooting it appears the motherboard is fried and I don’t trust my ability to soder and fix it.

No now I need to upgrade my setup. Wondering what is a good sub $300 computer I can order that will run Jellyfin, Immich, and a few light services off of? With Truenas you seem to need two SSDs. One to boot and one to run apps, so it seems like a mini PC will not work.

I have a seperate HDD drive bay with a few hdd’s in it full of shows and picture. Just need a PC to run my services.

I would prefer something I can order off Amazon or can be shipped quickly so I can get back up and running again.

  • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 days ago

    University surplus. I work for a university and we get rid of stuff all tfe time that is still very useful.

    • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      I got my home server (Lenovo thinkcentre, i7 6700) for $30 minus ram or storage at my local university surplus store a few years ago, and I have no regrets. Added a 256gb sata SSD, 16 gb RAM, 8tb HDD all refurbished for like +$150 when that was still cheap.

    • modus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Do they sell/auction them? If so, where? I’ve seen some things on municibid, but most of it is like “900 iPads, must buy all of them!” or “here’s a pallet of printers!”

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      one year my local uni got rid of a whole lab of G5’s. this was just about two years after they bought them.

      • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        Yeah I’ve found 2 year old Dell laptops that still had Accidental Damage Service still on them. Why the heck someone surplussed that is beyond me.