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What second hand PC/Laptop should I buy for home-labbing. (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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[–] 1 point 2 days ago (2 children)

Not a Mac

I love using Macs, but I cannot get my desktop to not sleep, and when it sleeps, it disconnects its external hard drive (which is not bus powered, it has a dedicated power supply). The bus-powered SSD (Samsung T7) is fine though. I don't know if it's an Apple thing or an ARM64 thing, but I'm looking for a low-end 8th-gen Intel box that's limited to Win10 to put headless Linux on it, and terminal in from my Mac for server/homelab stuff. Macs are good for Unix type stuff since that's what they're based on (since OS X) but they don't seem too good as servers.

Could be PEBCAK but I dunno.

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