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What second hand PC/Laptop should I buy for home-labbing. (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 days ago by 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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[–] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

If it's just for storage, you can use a Pentium from 10 years ago without issues. My NAS currently runs on a Pentium G4560T (T suffix = 35W model), which is based on Kaby Lake (7th gen Intel). You can pick up one of these CPUs for stupid cheap, I think they go for maybe $5 or $10 here in the US. The NAS has not complained at all. That said, I am going to upgrade it to an i5-6500 I have laying around, but only because the i5 has vPro capabilities, which I utilize on my other machines.

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