Kadath (she/her)

Depends what you consider a good price. Viofio is usually a good brand with good hardware and decent software support.

Glances has everything you require and it can also be self-contained.

Subsonic or similar?

Fair enough, but I wouldn’t host something I consider as an essential service on something that isn’t constantly powered.

Guess our use cases are way too different to properly compare. 😊

I feel you. I have a used Moxa E2210 for IOs. I prefer not to think how much I paid for that.

No shit. I have five Lenovo Tiny M720q with the i5-9500t and 32 gigs of RAM each in a XCP-NG cluster, another one as standalone Plex server (QuickSync kept on failing under XCP) plus an old Shuttle SFF with an old (2015, I think) Atom acting as standalone.

Power consumption is pretty much minimal, with NVMEs I don’t have to worry about slow data rates, nor sudden disk failures.

Most of all, all of these were cheap and easy to find. My two 8 bays Synology cost me way more, without even taking the disks in consideration.

Why would I even go for a RasPi or equivalent?

Depending on how heavy it is, you could use some blue tack. It comes off pretty easily without removing traces on the wall.