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I have never homelabbed, and this is going to be my first experience. I want to set up a home server. My current goals are to set up a gallery using Immich, an ad blocker/DNS using Pi-hole, and a cloud service.

I want you to suggest what second-hand PC or laptop I should get. I researched a bit and found out that a PC is better because of 24/7 reliability, better cooling, no risk of laptop battery swelling, easy RAM and storage expandability, and low idle power consumption.

What I think the specs should be for me is 12 GB RAM and 256 GB storage. And my budget is 10k INR.

I want to hear your thoughts. Thank you! :)

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[โ€“] notaviking@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I bought myself an HP elitedesk G3 800, they come in three skews: mini, small form factor and tower.

I bought the tower. There is so much room. Look at the Elitedesk G4 800 because there you get 8 and 9th gen intel.

But I love mine, planning to put in three large HDD in her, already have two 2.5 SSD, I have been scouting ram and got relatively cheap second hand ram deals, with 32gb in the system. I am planning on getting the 7700t (the t variant is the low power draw version).

But the thing is quiet and can be upgraded but also just plonked on a desk and left to run no worries

[โ€“] Eldritch@piefed.world 1 points 1 day ago

I have a G3 600 I got recently. It's a solid HA and haiku system running on top of proxmox.