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dan00

Selfhosting on old MSI laptop

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lemm.eeSelfhosting on old MSI laptop - lemm.eeHello preppers! As I prepare further and further for the digital and traditional collapse of society (/s), I finally got to the point of building my selfhosted server. At the moment I have a single bay Synology nas but it will soon find a new home (🗑️). I was thinking that instead of buying new tech I can be a conscious human being and recycle my old laptop. My old MSI PE60 2QD with i7 5th Gen, its a very capable machine and having the battery, I think, is better for a sudden loss of power. I replaced it because the hinge and screen broke but I never thrown it away. I wanted to wipe it and install some linux distro for selfhosting with, I think, Tailscale for access it remotely. I use it to store file, photos, music …normal cloud stuff. Before wasting hours troubleshooting, I’m sure there are brilliant people here that can give me tips or a link to a simple guide to follow. (Please don’t make me ask the bots). I’m sure this thread is already open somewhere and I’ll be happy to follow that and delete this, if so. Thank you lemmings.
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Frank Heijkamp

@dan00 The specifications of the hardware seems enough to run a couple of VM's and / or containers. Given you have a reasonable amount of RAM installed.

The choice of OS and packages depends somewhat on what it is you want to do with it. A headless Debian or Ubuntu install would be an obvious choice. I have Proxmox VE on a little Intel NUC that has some stuff running on it. Other people might choose things like OpenMediaVault, TrueNAS or Unraid.

Do you already have an idea what you like to do?

dan00

Yes I was thinking something like TrueNas or OMV would do the trick. I feel that a general headless distro could be harder to set up.

But what about the raid copies for example? Because i need to attach some external storage, is usb okay for this?

Frank Heijkamp

@dan00 USB is not ideal. A direct SATA connection would be better for system stability. USB HDD's will work but TrueNas and OMV might display warnings discouraging the use of USB storage. If you can manage to break out some PCIe lanes you can use a PCIe to SATA board, resulting in a more stable setup.

dan00

Got it… but I don’t know what do you mean with break out some PCIe lanes sorry ahah Like open the case and find a free PCIe port?

Frank Heijkamp

@dan00 That depends on what is available internally. I can not find exact specifications on the M.2 slot? I get the impression that it might be SATA instead of PCIe. Can you find out what interfacing the M.2 supports?

If it is PCIe you can use a M.2 to SATA adapter to create several more SATA ports to connect hard drives directly. This works better than external USB drives. Much more reliable.

Frank Heijkamp

@dan00 If the M.2 supports only SATA then you could use a different kind of adapter to turn that M.2 into a single SATA port and connect a large(r) 3.5 inch HDD outside of the laptop enclosure.

With PCIe you can create several SATA ports and create a small (software) RAID array.

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dan00

Laptop specs

I think it only supports SATA, but I should open it up and check it personally. Thank for the tips man.

Frank Heijkamp

@dan00 It feels like it supports two internal SATA ports, one on the M.2 SSD slot and one on the HDD slot. I can not find any specific data on the M.2 connector, it might therefore be SATA.

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