I just took my first step in the self-hosting world with Immich using an old LG Gram laptop with 256 GB of storage, and immediately ran out space.
I thought about buying a new SDD for the laptop, but if I’m upgrading, it might make more sense to just get some proper hardware for this.
But I’m not sure what I should get, exactly. For now, I plan on self-hosting AdGuard Home, Immich, Paperless-ngx and maybe a music server. Hopefully something simple, definitely something I can add more storage later as needed. What are some good options for this use case?
Unless you are adding hundreds of pictures to immich every day and you are planning on using their machine learning stuff a lot, I’d say you don’t need any new hardware. The services you want should run easily even on machines with 4GB of RAM. If I were you, I’d just get one 2TB hard disk, put it in an external case and connect to the laptop via USB and keep this setup until this bubble pops.
Google Takeout totalled almost 100 GB in photos and videos 🫠 but yeah an external HDD might just do it…
That’s is not a lot by any means, specially with video in the mix.