Raspberry Pi 4B/5 or old laptop for private Nextcloud?
Hello everyone,
I would like to set up my own private Nextcloud at home, which I and someone else can access even outside of my apartment.
This raises the question for me whether I should
- Raspi 4B/5 (4 or 8 GB RAM?) or
- I use my old Medion Akoya E1317T (4GB RAM possibly replaceable and 1TB HDD) for this
- or should I use something completely different?
According to notebookcheck, my installed AMD A4-1200 (2 cores, 1GHz with 3.9 TDP) consumes 4-8 watts as a complete system in idle and 12-14 watts under load.
The advantage of a laptop would be that I already have it, and at most I'd have to buy additional hard drives and RAM. Additionally, the battery would already provide a built-in UPS, something I wouldn't have to implement with the Raspberry Pi. However, I'm concerned about the underpowered processor and the power consumption.
I would deactivate the screen and everything else I don't need. I'm concerned about low power consumption, the lowest possible acquisition cost, and ensuring the system runs stably. My internet connection is limited to 100 Mbps download and 40 Mbps upload anyway.
Or are the electricity costs so high that a cloud from Apple and Co. is more worthwhile?
The data should be backed up as RAID 5 if possible, otherwise at least RAID 1.
I want to create backups there once a week and store them long-term (before anyone tells me that clouds aren't backups: Yes, I still plan to move Nextcloud to an external hard drive monthly). Otherwise, I'm happy to upload stuff to it, etc.
Perhaps smart homes will also be interesting sooner or later. But that's not a must and is a thing of the future.
Does anyone know anything about this and what would you recommend?
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that should be possible with a Pi. Needs to connect all hard drives via usb. But you probably have to do that with the laptop.
Of course you should have Linux skills.
External access can be tricky, as many Internet providers now use DS-Lite and you no longer have open IPv4 address, only ipv6.
Vodafone cable makes it like that.
Thank you for replying first.
And do you think the Pi uses much less power than the laptop? And then the 4B or the 5? How much RAM? The more, the better I guess?
I would have put the hard drives on it via USB hub or directly through a Pi SATA hat. Is RAID 1 or 5 for both?
And is it possible to access my network from outside via DynDNS?
dyndns doesn’t help.
a pi 4B with 4 GB should be enough. If you don’t use it in parallel with X people, it’s not so resource-intensive.
If the data from the laptop are really so low, you will not save as much power with a pi. But a notebook is actually not designed for a 24×7 operation and could possibly cause problems. And it’s much bigger.
For RAID 1, you only need 2 disks, but you lose the capacity of a complete disk.
For RAID 5, you need at least 3 data carriers, also lose the capacity of a complete data carrier.
In both systems, the failure of a data carrier is unproblematic if a 2 fails. However, all data carriers are then lost. (apart from an external backup)
But you should deal with software Raid on Linux.
I’d take the laptop for it. 4gb RAM is enough. Thank you