I’m considering setting up a home lab and truly self-hosting my own services. Unfortunately, my budget is limited to around $100-$150. I’m wondering if the HP Elitedesk mini PC is suitable for this purpose. I’m particularly looking at the HP Elitedesk 800 G3 or G5 models. Unfortunately, finding these devices in Dhaka has been challenging. So far, I’ve found a G3 on bikroy.com, but it comes with a 6th gen i7 CPU.

Edit: I ended up getting Elitedesk 800 G5 with i7 9th Gen CPU, 32 GB (Kingston) and 1 TB Nvme (a Chinese brand called Kingspec). I’ll get a new ssd later. The price was 35k BDT ($300 approx). The bios was locked. But I managed to unlock it by booting without cmos.

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  • 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.comEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    notice the bit about pushing it… say transcoding all the streams etc. I don’t know what or how it will be used… thus saying should be fine. Everyones mileage varies no talk about network either, far too many variables to consider thus saying it should be fine!

    • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      20 hours ago

      notice the bit about pushing it… say transcoding all the streams etc.

      6th gen Intel CPUs support quicksync. This is a non-issue for most self-hosters.

      I don’t know what or how it will be used… thus saying should be fine.

      Here are some stats for my particular HP Elite 800 G3 Mini (i7-7700T/32GB RAM) over the last 18 months, running various VMs and LXCs with varying services (including the VM running my media stack from which my kids stream music and shows quite frequently):

      Peak CPU usage is never more than 50%, and the vast majority of memory usage is just cached. Actual memory usage by each VM or LXC is far lower. The IO delays…that was user error (my NAS was having issues at the time).

      Don’t get caught up in having a completely un-stressed machine. Too much overhead means wasted potential.

      Everyones mileage varies no talk about network either, far too many variables to consider thus saying it should be fine!

      Fair, but we’re talking about the actual machine on which the services will run - not the network. If the network is garbage, then the $150 machine isn’t going to matter a whole lot.

      • 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.comEnglish
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        20 hours ago

        Pretty pictures don’t always translate into another users experience though do they, but I appreciate you wanting to argue just because you can

        • Bakkoda@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          19 hours ago

          8th gen Intel igpu and it’s transcoding streams and supporting a very active immich stack. I have 12 containers and 8 VMs.

        • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          19 hours ago

          OP has a budget of $150. I doubt they are going to be running a full suite of self-hosted replacement services right off the bat. The machine in question is perfectly suitable for quite a lot of things.