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Previously I was using Samsung N150P (netbook) as my home server and it served me around 6 years. >> https://programming.dev/post/708584

Though after upgrading to Debian 13, additional 90 packages were installed just with the upgrade. I also had a little adventure with it :) >> https://programming.dev/post/708488

Anyway, this new mini PC I got is from 2016 and surprisingly it has 8GB DDR3 RAM (I’m rich now). It’s generally in good condition. Even though it’s Celeron N3000, this one doesn’t have hyperthreading so only 2 cores. Still it’s a real upgrade over Atom N450 CPU.

Since last year, I was planning to get a Raspberry Pi and moving from there. However thanks to AI overlords it got so expensive I had to bail from that fantasy. I got this for 40$ and with 8GB RAM I think it was a good deal.

I was already planning to change my home server to Alpine for a while but I just couldn’t touch a perfectly fine system because lazy. So this time I went with Alpine and I already love how small it is. I just installed a couple monitoring tools and packages like sudo along with Pi-hole so currently it has quite few packages.

Don’t worry though, I’m planning to use that RAM, with time. :)

  • CameronDev@programming.dev
    12·
    13 days ago

    It could be that I was using particularly shit SD cards, or putting too much continuous load on them, but I have killed a handful of them over the time I used them. I dunno, could be user error for sure.

    I have never managed to kill an SSD though, so I trust them much more.

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
      15·
      13 days ago

      Did you add the fs2ram stuff. Uses RAM for all the temp writes and stuff so SD card only deals with actual file storage access.

    • Maya S. Trojan@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      7·
      13 days ago

      I mean, I think you have reason to trust SSDs more anyway. They’re just physically designed for more wear and tear than SD cards are, even if I’ve never destroyed an SD card myself I’m aware of their lack of resilience compared to SSDs.

      And yeah, I always dropped the extra money for Samsung Pro SD cards, maybe that’s part of it, too.

    • alt_xa_23 [she/her]@midwest.social
      4·
      12 days ago

      In my case, I had swap space on the SD card, and suspect that’s what killed it. After replacing the card and disabling swap, I haven’t had any problems for the last couple years

      • CameronDev@programming.dev
        1·
        12 days ago

        4 Raspberry Pi’s

        Get a load of this cat flexing their wealth :D

        The isolation of services makes some sense, but I found that there was plenty of single points of failure anyway (power, internet, router, pihole), so not worth worrying about a few more. And the reliability of the nuc has mostly given me peace of mind. I do have a separate nuc for a NAS, though.