Can a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8 GB of RAM handle my needs? (lemmy.zip)

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I recently bought a domain from Porkbun (thanks to all of the comments on this post!) and I want to self-host some services myself. I currently have a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ and I'm not quite sure if it can handle these things:

A matrix homeserver
A lemmy instance
A website with static HTML pages
Privacy-respecting frontends (Piped, Redlib etc.)

I am thinking about getting a maxed-out Raspberry Pi 5 with a whole 8 Gigabytes of RAM. Is it worth it? I need a machine that is quiet, doesn't draw that much power and is overall pretty good for the money.

Edit: I bought this Mini PC instead of the Raspberry Pi 5. Thanks to all the comments!!

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[-] Lifebandit666@feddit.uk 1 points 6 months ago

Nothing as of yet, just a stack of disks on top of a pc

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 1 points 6 months ago

Ah bummer. I've been wanting to retire my mid tower in favor of one of the Optiplex micros that I have but wanted something that could hold the 9 HDDs currently inside of it that wasnt a $1300 NAS but haven't found a good solution.

[-] Lifebandit666@feddit.uk 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'm sure there will be some kind of rack you can get that is cheaper than $1200

Edit like this https://amzn.eu/d/a75EKlh

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 1 points 6 months ago

Unfortunately I'd need some sort of backplane with it to connect it to the micro PC. I have looked at DAS options but they seem pretty uncommon and mostly relegated to no-name Chinese manufacturers on Amazon which seems risky due to questionable quality.

[-] Lifebandit666@feddit.uk 1 points 6 months ago

I'm not sure what a backplane is, but my HDDs are connected via usb3 cables with power chords. I'm sure there's speed constraints but it's what I've done.

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 2 points 5 months ago

A backplane is what provides the HDDs power and data connections. A DAS is basically the drive caddy you linked to earlier with built in internal connections for each drive that then connect to a PC via a single wire.

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