HDD or SSD for a home server?

posted 2 months ago

Xylight@lemdro.id

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I’m new to this stuff so go easy on me.

So I want to get into selfhosting, and I’ve decided to get a Raspberry Pi 5. I plan to attach drives to it, from about 500GB-1TB. I’m on a budget, preferably under $100.

I want to host these things:

A personal lemmy instance
A samba server, to store files and backups
A mail server
A few other light docker containers

I was wondering whether I should get an SSD or an HDD for these. Lemmy would probably like an SSD because it uses Postgres, but an HDD would be better for storage since I get more GB per dollar.

What should I go with?

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CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work

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2 months ago

Is this really still true about images federating in Lemmy? In any case, I think the problem can be avoided by disabling pict-rs.

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