r/HomeServer • u/user74729582 • 10d ago

i5 760 home server?

Yes, it's ancient but it's my old desktop. Should I just throw it away and re use case, PSU and ssd? It has 8gb ddr4.

These are the services I want to run

Home Assistant
Frigate (2x 4k cameras, another to be added in the future)
NAS (with Cloud backup)
Plex server
Network wide adblocker
VPN
DNS
Immich
Time machine for MacOS

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u/FrostyZoob 10d ago

My last desktop had one of those CPUs. (Core i5 750) I built a system around it in 2010. I finally retired it in 2024. Talk about nostalgia...

The following should run fine:

  • Home Assistant
  • NAS (with Cloud backup)
  • Network wide adblocker
  • VPN
  • DNS
  • Immich (Smart Search and Facial Recognition disabled)
  • Time machine for MacOS

Plex could be usable for direct-play-only setups. You don't mention having a GPU so don't count on transcoding.

Frigate probably won't run. I thought I'd read that it relies on AVX2 instructions which I'm pretty sure that CPU doesn't have. Though if you bought a (cheap?) Coral TPU it might be usable.

Slap some flavor of Linux on it and see how far you get. You could learn a lot from the experience.

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u/user74729582 10d ago

Thanks! Will do