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What second hand PC/Laptop should I buy for home-labbing. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by Venomous27@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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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[–] jobbies@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I've had a lot of fun with used HP elitedesk/prodesks. Go for Intel, gen 6 i3/i5 or newer. Id push it to 16GB ram if you can manage it.

The SFF models (small desktops) are good if you plan on adding HDDs or anything PCIe in the future. If not go for the USSF (mini) models - they are very power efficient. All extremely quiet - you'll have to really push the resources to hear more than a whisper from them.

I've had 7 all together and been pleased with them.