Trying to decide whether to get a #RaspberryPi or a budget mini pc as a home backup server, AdGuard DNS and home network firewall.

[fibrojedi@gamepad.club]

Trying to decide whether to get a #RaspberryPi or a budget mini pc as a home backup server, AdGuard DNS and home network firewall.

Some Pi setups are as expensive as budget mini PCs and all I'd have to do would be replace Windows with Linux on those.

I've run out of broken and old computers at home for this purpose as my last old laptop's screen broke and now has hard drive failure.

Ideas/Input?

Thanks.

#repost #technology #homenetworking

[crankyoldbugger@fosstodon.org]

@FibroJedi I'm pro-raspi, but right now the prices are crazy.

[jethrotombs@mas.to]

@FibroJedi . I run 3x Pi5s+SSD HATs. All run 24/7 via 12v to 5V buck/boost regulators from a 12Volt ex Alarm panel + battery. Standing load from 3xPis, router and fibre modem is less than 32W. Wireless is disabled and they run headless on a wired lan. Pi 1 is a normal apache2 webserver, Pi 2 runs home assistant + media server and Pi 3 runs nextcloud reverse proxied behind Pi 1. All run adblock and wireguard VPNs. The active cooling fans hardly ever run.
Nextcloud is slow even on a Pi5+SSD

[irgndsondepp@gts.da-miez.de]

@FibroJedi a Raspi is probably enough, but insanely expensive right now. A mini PC will serve you well and will then have some capacity left for when you inevitably put other stuff on it.

[0x0@hachyderm.io]

@FibroJedi
Used minipc.

[kiernian@infosec.exchange]

@FibroJedi if you're going to be using it for anything with any amount of disk write, go PC or use external disk storage.

Every single person I know who has used a raspi for pihole/firewall stuff burns through flash storage like crazy with those application types. The microsd cards/USB sticks/etc have a relatively short lifespan when used for something that writes to disk that frequently.