I want to build my own cloud with Raspberry Pi, but I don’t know which hardware to buy.

Will it be enough if I buy a Raspberry Pi 5 and two SSDs?

  • burchalka@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    With raspberry pi prices and availability issues - I think the concensus in selfhosted community is to prefer a thin client, which would provide better performance, while being more reliable, and only slightly more power hungry

  • ArbiterXero@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Raspberry pi’s are decent budget starters, but each one will only really do one thing, and not well.

    Honestly, you’re better off going with someone ‘s old pc.

      • Num10ck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        1 year ago

        umm if you dont have room for a computer or its fan noise then maybe youre not in a position to build your own on site cloud service.

        • aelwero@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          A pi to host an SSD and run a plex server would take up as much space as two pair of socks in a sock drawer…

          Just depends on what “hosting an on site cloud” means. If it’s just backup storage and a local-only Plex server for one or two tvs, you could get away with the socks ;)

  • shootwhatsmyname@lemm.eeEnglish
    41·
    1 year ago

    If you’re simply doing cloud storage, a Raspberry Pi and SSDs will be just fine. If you’re wanting to run a bunch of processes all at once I’d recommend a Beelink or something a bit more dependable. I had Plex, HomeAssistant, AirPlay/Spotify, and NextCloud running on my rpi4 and performance was finicky. RAM was an issue and occasionally it would all crash. Raspberry Pi’s seem to do better with one or two tasks at a time in my experience. Can’t speak for the Raspberry Pi 5 though.