Hi there !
Long time reader, first time poster here. I am planning on buying a tiny PC for virtualization purposes, mainly docker containers, and maybe a few VM's.
I can get a R7 5800U box ( T-Bao MN58U ) with 32GB RAM +1TB NVMe, 1Gig Ethernet + 2.5G Ethernet for around 390€.
Or Intel N100 ( T-Bao T8 Plus ) with 16GB RAM (soldered) + 512 SSD ( not specified if SATA or NVMe ) with dual 1Gig Ethernet for 180€
Some of the services I will be running are : Home Assistant, Pi-Hole, Plex Media Server, a VPN server ( either OpenVPN or Tailscale ) and a few other lightweight services.
My idea was to install Debian bare metal, with Proxmox VE and Portainer on top of it for managing my VM's and containers. I will also probably install Plex Media Server bare metal for better transcoding performance.
My main goal being power efficiency, which one would be better ? I have seen on YT that the idle power consumption is pretty much the same between those 2 processors, and nearly the same at full tilt, but not in these exact machines. Maybe if anyone has one of them, they could tell us how power optimized they are, and how much we can tweak them at the BIOS level for power efficiency.
I would directly go for the Ryzen based machine, because of the compute power advantage, but I am wondering if the intel one would be sufficient for my use case and save me 200€ in the process.
For the software stack, am I on the right path or would I be better off with a bare metal PVE install, with VM's dedicated for the Plex server and docker ? In the past I had both a real 19" server for my VM's and a lightweight computer for my dockers.
Side note : The Plex server will only serve as a transcode server for 2 devices, occasionally a third one, with the actual media stored on my NAS
Long time reader, first time poster here. I am planning on buying a tiny PC for virtualization purposes, mainly docker containers, and maybe a few VM's.
I can get a R7 5800U box ( T-Bao MN58U ) with 32GB RAM +1TB NVMe, 1Gig Ethernet + 2.5G Ethernet for around 390€.
Or Intel N100 ( T-Bao T8 Plus ) with 16GB RAM (soldered) + 512 SSD ( not specified if SATA or NVMe ) with dual 1Gig Ethernet for 180€
Some of the services I will be running are : Home Assistant, Pi-Hole, Plex Media Server, a VPN server ( either OpenVPN or Tailscale ) and a few other lightweight services.
My idea was to install Debian bare metal, with Proxmox VE and Portainer on top of it for managing my VM's and containers. I will also probably install Plex Media Server bare metal for better transcoding performance.
My main goal being power efficiency, which one would be better ? I have seen on YT that the idle power consumption is pretty much the same between those 2 processors, and nearly the same at full tilt, but not in these exact machines. Maybe if anyone has one of them, they could tell us how power optimized they are, and how much we can tweak them at the BIOS level for power efficiency.
I would directly go for the Ryzen based machine, because of the compute power advantage, but I am wondering if the intel one would be sufficient for my use case and save me 200€ in the process.
For the software stack, am I on the right path or would I be better off with a bare metal PVE install, with VM's dedicated for the Plex server and docker ? In the past I had both a real 19" server for my VM's and a lightweight computer for my dockers.
Side note : The Plex server will only serve as a transcode server for 2 devices, occasionally a third one, with the actual media stored on my NAS