Where do you buy refurbished HDD?

Dude, relax!

Yes, I’ll have to buy a 10/15€ cheap Chinese adapter.

But can it run it though? Does it have enough power?

I wish it was possible to connect it to VGA servers to 🙁

Veeeery nice! I want one! (Well…maybe 2, or 3, or… 😁)

Edit: Do you know about other KVM maybe under those 69$ without screen? Personally I wouldn’t need it.

What do you mean by “suspicious”? What are your worries?

Ok, but is that “high load” something that the rpi 5 is capable of handling? I don’t think so.

At peak the sff PCs are going to be at least triple the ~30W of the pi 5.

Are you sure? I think that for the same tasks, the i5 (at least 9th gen) is more power efficient than the rpi 5. I was a pi guy, I had them all over the places, but like you, I’m now using SFF/tiny used PCs (when I don’t need GPIO).

Well, actually with 150$ you could buy a used business SFF/tiny PC with an 8th/9th gen i5 CPU and I don’t think that it will consume that much more than a rpi.

I’ll do some testing during the Christmas holiday. Thanks!

What kind of a card do you think that could do the job? There will be 2 maximum 3 people watching Jellyfin.

I’m assuming you’re talking about version 1 of the 2620.

Nope, V2.

Although the xeon is the weaker processor, if you’re planning on having those containers active together the larger thread count will potentially be more beneficial than the faster i7.

This is what I thought, before @poVoq@slrpnk.net pointed me to the quicksync of the i7 (I will have a Jellyfin container).

Also if you do any sort of media processing the 6700k has a gpu and quicksync built in that can speed these things up significantly.

This is a good point that probably will make the decision lean towards the i7, thanks!

So what was the question? It sounds like you already decided.

Why? No, I haven’t decided.

The i7-6700k is faster but it has less cores. The E5-2620 has more cores but the clock speed and memory are much slower.

So for a lot of containers that each do few things, it would be better to have more cores, correct?

I’m assuming the xeon comes with ECC ram?

Yes, it does.

Since you’re just looking to make a router the xeon would be my tentative choice.

No no, it willwork ALSO as router, but it will have about 15/20 Dockers containers.
It’s not that loud, but it will be placed in a dedicated small room under the roof.

Did you do that?
If yes, could you share some info about it?

Which firmware did you load into the ESP?
Firmware apart what did you have to do?

Cloudflare acting as a MITM

It is a MITM, but I think that for us self hoster ther’s nothing to worry about. What could they sniff? And it makes things easy.

Why don’t you use a Cloud flare zero trust tunnel? In this way you don’t need a public IP and open port on your router.