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! :)
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.
This hasn’t helped? It worked for my macbook but after restarts I still need to open the lid.
sudo pmset -a disablesleep 1