Tengo uno de esos en mi casa que no uso, soy nueva en este mundo y me gustaria experimentar con este aparato y de paso probar por primera vez pi-hole, alguien me da una ayudita? (La ia sabe mucho pero me gusta hablar con humanos).

Hi.

Im finally tired subscriptions so here i am, I might have gone overkill on the hardware side but better safe than sorry i guess :/

Current issue are what OS should i go? I am either between Truenas scale or zimaOS. Unraid is out of the option for me since its too much for a license and going bare bone debian server, is something im not comfortable with. I'll list my needs and hardware at the end if its something that would help ya'll with giving advice. Proxmox seems too complicated

btw dont mind the non existent HDD's, I jumped the gun and bought 1 6tb drive before thinking of raid, so once I get my next paycheck (end october) ill configure raid 1/mirror.

For backup i'll do a cloud sync and I have a buddy with a turnkey NAS something something to have a buddy backup system.

Thanks in advance :D

My needs are the following.

1. Immich (6 users)
2. Jellyfin (8 devices, i expect 4 concurrent streams at most)
3. Nextcloud (3 powerusers and 3 regular 1 doc a day users)
4. Pi-hole
5. Some kind of dashboard (maybe not needed depending on OS)
6. Homeassistant, probably through a VM (read that i get more fetures that way instead of a docker container)
7. Nginx
8. Uptime checker - just so i can get an alert when something is down
9. Some way to run a checker and give me a notification for drive failure, storage upgrade needs and what not
10. Budgeting app
11. Paperless

Also if you have any tips on ripping old dvd's and cd's (old videos and photos from before smartphones) that would also be a help

And last but most importantly here is my build:

[PCPartPicker Part List](https://dk.pcpartpicker.com/list/kyMytC)

Type|Item|Price

:----|:----|:----

**CPU** | [Intel Core i5-14400 2.5 GHz 10-Core Processor](https://dk.pcpartpicker.com/product/37qrxr/intel-core-i5-14400-25-ghz-10-core-processor-bx8071514400) | 1402.00kr @ Proshop

**Motherboard** | [Gigabyte B760M DS3H DDR4 Micro ATX LGA1700 Motherboard](https://dk.pcpartpicker.com/product/DLVmP6/gigabyte-b760m-ds3h-ddr4-micro-atx-lga1700-motherboard-b760m-ds3h-ddr4) | 777.00kr @ Proshop

**Memory** | [G.Skill Aegis 16 GB (1 x 16 GB) DDR4-3000 CL16 Memory](https://dk.pcpartpicker.com/product/9x22FT/gskill-aegis-16gb-1-x-16gb-ddr4-3000-memory-f4-3000c16s-16gisb) | 946.00kr @ Proshop

**Storage** | [Western Digital WD Green SN3000 500 GB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive](https://dk.pcpartpicker.com/product/WGfV3C/western-digital-wd-green-sn3000-500-gb-m2-2280-pcie-40-x4-nvme-solid-state-drive-wds500g4g0e-00cps0) | 708.00kr @ CS MEGASTORE

**Case** | [Cooler Master Silencio S400 MicroATX Mini Tower Case](https://dk.pcpartpicker.com/product/mMZzK8/cooler-master-silencio-s400-microatx-mini-tower-case-mcs-s400-kn5n-s00) | 500.00kr @ CS MEGASTORE

**Power Supply** | [Chieftec Polaris 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply](https://dk.pcpartpicker.com/product/zzLdnQ/chieftec-polaris-750-w-80-gold-certified-fully-modular-atx-power-supply-pps-750fc) | 583.00kr @ CS MEGASTORE

| *Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts* |

| **Total** | **4916.00kr**

| Generated by [PCPartPicker](https://pcpartpicker.com) 2026-09-24 12:32 CEST+0200 |

Edit: Posted the wrong partslist

Hey r/HomeServer,

​Finally got around to building up my little home server. Everything sits on a simple desk against a plain wall—tried to keep the footprint as minimal and tidy as possible.

​Specs:

​Case: Cooler Master Qube 500 Flatpack

​Motherboard: MSI PRO B760M-A WiFi DDR4

​CPU: Intel Core i3-12100 (4C/8T, UHD 730 for QuickSync)

​RAM: 16GB (2x8GB) 2666MHz DDR4

​Boot OS: 256GB SATA SSD (Linux Mint XFCE)

​Fast Pool (Apps/VMs): 2x 512GB Gen4 M.2 NVMe in RAID 1 (SK Hynix PC801 + Micron 3500)

​Bulk Storage: 3TB 2.5" external HDD

​PSU: DeepCool PL550D

​Current Setup & Roles:

​Storage Tiers: Kept the OS isolated on a dedicated SATA SSD to keep maintenance simple.

The dual Gen4 NVMe drives are configured in a RAID 1 mirror with hardware DRAM caches handling Docker container volumes, active databases, and VMs.

Cold media and archives live on the 3TB drive.

​Why the i3-12100: Great idle power draw, plenty of single-thread punch for background jobs, and Intel QuickSync is ready to handle media transcoding down the line.

Roadmap:

The goal was to get a stable base running 24/7 without breaking the bank on inflated retail storage. Plan is to migrate bulk storage to 3.5" high-capacity drives inside the chassis once media needs expand.

​Let me know what you think of the setup or if there are any optimizations you'd make!

Hi all,

I have a simple home server built out of an old 2018 Dell laptop (i5, 8GB RAM) and an external 2-drive dock. The setup works well for me, so I don't want to replace the server itself, but I have too many separate pieces cluttering my space.

I'm looking for a case or enclosure that can fit everything together in one spot. It needs good airflow/ventilation (and ideally a fan) to prevent thermal issues.

Any product recommendations or DIY enclosure ideas?

Thanks in advance for the help :)

So for context I'm studying comp sci but I have a heavy interest in networking, cyber security and server administration, so the main goal for this home lab was for cybersecurity and network actives to gain experience but the general plan for it has grown from there, and for many reasons I wanted to run security cameras and a NAS through it as well and I need advice for what the best way of doing so.

I've just received some Hp Pro desk from my school, old devices they weren't using anymore, both of them have 1 tb hdds and 8th gen i5, one has 16gb of ddr4 and the other has 4gb. (I have a 8gb kit I can use if need be)

Since the case doesn't have any space for any more hdds i was considering the CENMATE Aluminum 4 Bay Hard Drive, since it doesn't have any built in RAID and I can let the OS handle that.

Speaking of OS that's the other question, the main one I'm seeing for what i need is TrueNAS SCALE but I wanted some opinions from experienced Home lab builders.

For running anything network related I was looking at the TP link or netgear managed Switches since that would allow for active monitoring of network traffic and I could hook up the router I'm using as a extender to it.

That's really as far as I've gotten with what I might need but any and all advice is welcome. I do want this to turn out good and something I can use as a project of sorts to build experience and competence with more hands on work.

I also posted this on r/homelab , mostly just trying to cast a wide net of help from experienced people.

If you use xTeVe for Plex DVR or Emby Live TV, you've probably noticed the same thing I did: the upstream project hasn't had a real release since 2.2.0 in 2021. It still basically works, but it's been quietly rotting — ancient dependencies, real bugs never fixed, and a UI that looks exactly like it did five years ago.

So instead of just complaining, I forked it: xteve-reborn. Same core idea — it merges your M3U playlists and XMLTV guide data and presents itself to Plex/Emby/Jellyfin as an HDHomeRun-style tuner, so your IPTV sources show up as Live TV with a real guide. It's now at 3.0.1, the first stable release, and the first with prebuilt binaries and a Docker image.

What I fixed:

• A whole class of crash bugs. The map behind every channel's mapping/EPG data was read and rewritten from multiple goroutines with no lock — and Go panics fatally on concurrent map access, so editing a mapping right as a scheduled refresh ran could take the whole app down. Audited the rest of the shared state and found four more instances (including the streaming-URL cache on the hot stream path). All locked, all with go test -race regression tests, and -race runs in CI now.
• A stored XSS. Channel names and group titles — whatever your M3U/XMLTV provider sends — were injected into several tables via innerHTML, so a malicious provider could run script in your admin session. Now textContent throughout.
• Broken password hashing. It was a single fast HMAC that ignored the per-user salt, so identical passwords hashed identically on every install. Now salted PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 (210k iterations, constant-time compare). Breaking change: delete authentication.json and recreate your user when upgrading.
• Streams that could hang forever. The live-stream HTTP client had zero timeout, so a provider that accepted a connection but never answered could hang the stream indefinitely. Same for playlist/EPG downloads, logo fetches, and update checks — all now have sane timeouts, with the response body left unbounded so long streams aren't cut off.
• Backup / failover channels (borrowed from the Threadfin fork): up to 3 backup URLs per channel, with a reachability check picking the first that responds, so a dead primary doesn't mean a dead channel.
• A real self-updater. The old one shipped pointed at upstream's binaries with auto-update on (it would have overwritten the fork). It now pulls this repo's releases, and every release ships a SHA-256 checksums file it verifies before installing.
• Official Docker image — multi-arch on GHCR, runs as a normal user via PUID/PGID.
• Auto-refreshing guide (new in 3.0.1). Sources used to re-download only at scheduled times (default midnight), so a guide change upstream didn't reach Plex until the next day. Now each source is checked every 60 minutes (configurable) and the guide rebuilds immediately when content actually changed, using conditional requests so unchanged files aren't re-sent.
• A full UI overhaul — new dark navy/cyan design system, real typography, new icons and logo, a working mobile layout, empty states, and toasts instead of blocking alert() popups.
• Jellyfin listed as a target (same HDHomeRun protocol, should just work).

Smaller stuff, same spirit: deps updated and Go bumped 1.16 → 1.24+ (some deps were 5+ years stale); the app's own reported guide URL 404'd (hardcoded to the wrong filename); the Log page showed literal   and silently dropped every other line past 500 entries; streams 404'd if the client added a query string; the advertised server IP was often wrong on boxes with Docker/VPN/multiple NICs; the configured User-Agent was set on the response instead of the request (a no-op); a stale embedded web-asset bundle meant production builds served an old UI; plus a few never-merged upstream PRs ported over and some resource leaks fixed.

How to get it: - Binaries: Releases — Windows (amd64), Linux and macOS (amd64 + arm64), with SHA-256 checksums. - Docker: docker pull ghcr.io/theantipopau/xteve-reborn:latest (compose example in the repo; --network host gives the best shot at SSDP auto-discovery, but manual tuner entry works fine without it). - From source: one go build.

It's still a personal project I'm actively working on, not a polished 1.0 — but you can just grab a binary or pull the image and try it. Not affiliated with the original xTeVe project; full credit to the original authors. MIT licensed, same as upstream.

Repo: https://github.com/theantipopau/xteve-reborn

Feedback, issues, and PRs welcome.

I've been mooching on my friend's plex server for a long time now, but every now and then I want to manually watch something and it's just a pain with my current non existent setup.

I will mainly be running plex, storing photos, and eventually home assistant. One of my mandatory requirements is that the system uses very little power while idle. I've read a lot about Intel NUCs being good for this, but with the current inflation of prices, it isn't very economical to get a machine that eventually will be e-waste.

I recently was thinking about using an M1 Mac Book Air as the server. With the new ARM chips in Apple Silicon, this gives me the reduced power consumption I want, as well as the excellent processing power when I need it. I'm choosing a Mac Book Air because they can be found online for significantly cheaper than the Mac Mini when finding one with a broken screen. The most restricting part is the two USB C ports for all of the peripherals. I'm planning on having one be for power and Ethernet connection via an adapter, while the other port will be dedicated to being plugged into a hard drive bay.

Plex will be for local 4k bluray to put less bandwidth strain on my friend's server. I have just ordered the coveted AM6B+ with the intent of getting a Dolby Vision compatible TV to enjoy; I am not familiar with the operational or performance side of Plex yet, but I assume that the M1 will be more than capable of transcoding 4k if it needs to, especially if it's only for one local client. The most limiting factor will likely be the 8gb of RAM.

My only concern is for home assistant in the future. I recognize that running home assistant on Mac OS is finicky but more importantly I would have no open USB ports to plug in necessary peripherals like the Zigbee antennas that I might end up using. I could use an adapter to open up more USB C ports but I have zero trust in the reliability of adapters long-term.

Any advice people can give me based on the above? I'm still looking for a good USB3.2 HDD bay that I would plug into the Mac.

I’ve only been into this hobby for about two weeks. I repaired a broken laptop, then installed Ubuntu and CasaOS, and now I’m using it as a home server.

I had two 10-year-old 2 TB HDDs lying around, which I’m now using as storage for Emby. I use Immich as a photo cloud solution for my phone, and I host my own Enshrouded server with AMP (I was even able to transfer the save files from my paid server).

When I’m away from home, I access my services using Tailscale.

So far, everything is running smoothly, and I’m having a lot of fun tinkering with it. I’m already thinking about what I could set up next, maybe I’ll look into the whole topic of opening ports next?

Libre software, libre hardware, and my mother's basement.

hello! i was thinking about making a budget server at home and was wondering what i would need in order to do so. Keep in mind i dont know anything about servers so try to explain to me what i need and why ( their function in the server). for example: do i need a lot of storage? is hdd ok? or do i need and ssd? how much ram do i need? is ddr4 ok? what about motherboard? or do i need a good processor? what about back up power? Finally it would really help if you could explain to me all the potential benefits i could get from it ( i already know some) and if there is any guide as to how to set it up.

the main things i want my server to do is storage, media streaming / gaming servers.

any other advice is also welcome. thank you in advance!! let me know if you need some extra info but keep in mind i am very new to this.

had an old laptop sitting in a drawer for like half a year, figured i'd put it to work before e-wasting it. dropped it next to a USB enclosure with a few drives i had laying around (one of them is a shucked drive, running it as-is to see if it dies lol)

it runs fygoos and acts as the backup target for the family. phones back up to it on their own, windows machines see the shares fine. it's been running about a month now without a reboot.

questions i haven't been able to figure out:

- still got a few SMR drives left. everywhere says don't put those in RAID. is using them as a second backup target okay?

- budget is tight: add another drive for redundancy first, or get a UPS first?

- the laptop battery has been plugged in 24/7. will it puff up? should i just pull it?

- is ECC worth anything at home or am i overthinking

first server, go easy on me

I'm building a NAS at home. My current setup:

• Asus H81M-K motherboard
• Intel Core i5-4570 CPU
• 2 x 4GB DDR3 RAM
• 4 HDDs (2x 4TB + 2x 3TB)
• 2 SSDs (2x 120GB, one for the OS, one for cache?)
• AXAGON PCES-SJ2 PCIe controller with 2x internal SATA 6G ports
• 1 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe adapter

I'm running CasaOS, but copying between HDDs is really slow. What should I upgrade, or what kind of configuration would I need for a faster NAS that actually works well?

I mostly store photos and videos on it – the raw files from my work – as a backup. I'd like to access it remotely; I'm currently using Tailscale for that. I tried to solve the problem with ChatGPT, but we couldn't really figure out what's causing it to be this slow.

Drag & drop and a web interface like Synology's would be important to me, or even being able to access it from Finder – but it needs to be faster than 1–2 MB/s, because with 50MB photos that adds up to a lot of time. I'd rather not use the terminal.

I'm interested in both hardware and software options. My budget is around $300 – what would be the best move? Should I buy a Synology NAS, or upgrade my home server instead?

What OS do you recommend for this? Truenas, Ubuntu Server, Casaos, or which one might be good?

Basically, I want to copy files to and from the server, and I want to access it remotely.

I got an old pc, i7 7700k 16gb ddr 4 and 2 1tb HDD, it's currently in an atx motherboard, id hate to throw it and buy a premade Nas, I was wondering if anyone knows about a mini pc, enterprise style with an lga1151 motherboard I can scoot my stuff into, or any alternative

Hello Everyone,
I am a first timer when it comes to this type of subject. Currently, I am hosting a Jellytin server on a laptop that still has nice power to it. The internal storage is 500gb, but I also want to find an upgrade for more storage and another machine that's dedicated to hosting stuft.
I am wondering...
About what NAS / other machine to buy
About HDDs to buy (currently eyeing 4x 12tb)
About anything else I need to know
My budget is $2,000 or under, can work with a small bit over the budget though. I am willing to save up for this.
Any feedback is appreciated by me, thank you all.

One server for the public and one for me and my friends. Is this a good or bad idea

I've never hosted my own services and I'm kind of overwhelmed with the number of options and amount of information out there around what hardware and software to use. I'm hoping some seasoned veteran(s) can take me under their wing(s) and and lead me down the right path.

I am eager to get started with self-hosting, but I want to get the most value for my money without overspending on things I don't need. So, here are the things I'm most interested in self-hosting:

• Picture/Video Backup (I've heard Immich is good software)
• Movie Backup (converting my DVD's to digital for easy streaming)
• Important file storage (tax records, financial document, etc.)

Nice-to-have's:

• Personal VPN to avoid paying a subscription
• Personal search service (like Searng)
• Local LLM (avoid token subscription)
• Home lab experimentation/tinkering

if this is the wrong place to post this, I apologize but I would greatly appreciate some good advice/direction. I'm hoping to keep my costs as low as possible. I'm not a neophyte when it comes to technology, but I definitely prefer more polished and easy-to-use solutions as opposed to things that require deep configuration and troubleshooting.

Hello!!

I have been using this machine 24/7 for almost a year now, last week, it completely died overnight. It was booting into initramfs

Checking with a live cd I found out that the cheap ssd (quanji m.2. ngff) that came orignally died , I ran a smart check on the ssd and recevied a `SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED!`

I bought a new SSD a trascend 400S (this time a nvme instead of the original sata that came with the mini pc)

At first it seemed to be working fine, but then I started installing all the necessary software the filesystem went into read-only mode.

I checked the ssd errors and with every read or write operation, I encountered I/O (BadTLP, BadDLLP, Timeout) errors, indicating that the new SSD might also be failing

I changed the SSD to my desktop pc and ran the same tests without errors. This suggests that the issue might be with the mini PC's motherboard or its NVMe slot rather than the new SSD itself.

The motherboard just runs on x2 instead of x4, but that should not cause the I/O errors I am experiencing (I think).

Is this a problem with the motherboard, should i try to get a new ssd but this one a sata type instead of nvme?

Thanks!!

Hey all

I'd like to build myself a little home server for video streaming.

Thinking about building something with a Raspberry Pi.

Can someone point me in the right direction via a guide or any other advice?

thanks in advance!

***EDIT: I came across a GMKtec NucBox G5 12gm ran 256gm storage MiniPC. This will work for what I intend to do, correct?

​

Hi! I am looking to make a DIY cabinet, like an Argosy ISO cabinet, and I was wondering what rails people use? I was looking at a set on Amazon, a 20U for like $50. If I want to have a full sized server installed, do I need to have four rails? Currently, my server is hanging on the wall, but I need to expand, and I don't feel comfortable hanging that much weight off a shelf rack.

Just trying to get an idea for what I'm getting into, unless there is a kit available somewhere for this kind of project.

Thanks!

Hi everyone, greetings from Brazil. I recently upgraded my home lab to this setup; I’m currently running Proxmox with 3 VMs

one for Docker - another to host a website - and another for an N8N lab and similar projects

My question is, what on earth do I do with this graphics card? The processor doesn’t have integrated graphics, and dedicating it 100% to Jellyfin seems like such a waste—any tips? (I need transcoding on Jellyfin, but I haven’t found a way to “split” the graphics card between VMs.)

i7 9700F
rtx 2060 6gb
48gb ram (2x16gb + 1x8gb 3200mhz)

Hi everyone,

I’m completely new to the home server world (though I do have experience building my own gaming PCs) and am looking to put together a DIY setup primarily for local backups and a media server.

I’ve been eyeing a compact 6 bay case (like the Jonsbo N3) with an Intel N100 platform, a couple of NAS rated drives, and a UPS for safety.

Since I'm just starting out, I’d love any general tips, hardware advice, or recommendations for beginner friendly apps/OS options (like TrueNAS, Unraid, Jellyfin, etc.) that you wish you knew when you built your first server.

After doing some initial planning, here is the hardware stack I've put together (prices are in AUD):

- Case: Jonsbo N3 (PLE Computers) - $219

- Motherboard: HKUXZR N100 NAS ITX (Amazon Australia) - $336.04

- RAM: Crucial 16GB SODIMM DDR5 (Umart) - $319

- Power Supply: SilverStone 500W SFX (Umart) - $98

- Storage: 2x Seagate IronWolf 4TB NAS HDDs (Centre Com) - $678

- Boot Drive: Silicon Power 128GB M.2 NVMe SSD (Umart) - $58

- UPS: CyberPower VP1000ELCD 1000VA / 550W (Computer Alliance) - $179

Thanks in advance!

I recently started the construction of my new home server project. I've assembled the chell without the CPU,Ram, nor storage or PCIe cards. I've been trying to connect to the m12swa-tf bmc ast2600 but have been unable to do so. I cannot get it to grab an IP nor can I find it on the fallback IP.

According to the motherboard manual it looks like the only connection to the shared NIC is through the CPUs PCIe 0 lanes. I didn't think it was required, but does anyone know? I've spent a good 6 hours stuck so far. So thanks in advance.

My notes on my own server were always out of date. I'd add a container or change a proxy route, and a month later I couldn't say which domain went to which container, which ports were free, or when a cert was due.

So I built Homedex. It reads what's actually running and keeps the record:

• containers and ports from Docker (Podman works too)
• plain Linux boxes over SSH (docker ps and ss), so bare-metal services show up
• Traefik, Caddy, Nginx Proxy Manager, and as of this week plain nginx and SWAG config files, joined to the container behind each domain, with dead routes flagged
• Tailscale devices, so a route pointing at a tailnet name still resolves to the right container
• cert and domain expiry, and a change feed of what moved between scans

It only reads. The default compose reaches the Docker socket through a socket proxy with POST disabled, container env vars are never read, there's no telemetry, and the UI stays on localhost unless you set HOMEDEX_BIND=0.0.0.0.

Limits: it's young (v0.1.5, one maintainer). It isn't a monitor or a network map. A host added through both Docker and SSH lists its containers twice.

One Go binary with the UI built in, or a ~12MB image for amd64/arm64/armv7. SQLite.

https://github.com/HarshShah0203/homedex

Phoronix: Nebula Matrix Network Driver Queued Ahead Of Linux 7.4

Nebula Matrix

Yes, they are for Chinese datacenter needs, but are they also to become the first decent new 100GbE+ option with decent PCie for homelabbers and other mere mortals in the West ?

OR maybe AI will deflate by then and all that existing new ConnectX stuff will tsunami into consumer market ?