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Workplace retiring some PC's - thinking of grabbing one to do my first self hosting on - which one of these should I take? (specs inside) (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago by MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net to c/selfhost@lemmy.ml

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Hey all, been wanting to get into self hosting for a while. I won't be doing a whole lot - probably just a Plex server and photo/video archives.

Maybe a personal assistant if I get really bored, lol.

At work, I've got a selected of taking either:

HP Prodesk 400 G4 - i5 7th Gen

Dell Optiplex 7020
Dell Optiplex 3010
Dell Optiplex 3040 All Intel i5

Let me know if they're all shit too, lol.

Many thanks

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Whatever has the most RAM.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 5 points 1 month ago

This is the way.

I will say, Jellyfin's aggressive transcoding has brought even my relatively modern, 12-core AMD to its knees, but for everything else, more RAM has been more important than CPU or GPU specs for self-hosting. Before Jellyfin, I hosted the entire house on an ARM-based micro.

That said, the game changes if OP wants to do any LLM stuff. Memory is still important, but the GPU starts to play a bigger role.

If I could know only one stat for making a decision, though, it'd be RAM.