[domrdy]

I've found Raspberry Pis to be too unreliable for my homelab needs due to constant crashing and random performance drops. Instead, I bought two used 2012 Mac Minis with 16GB RAM, 1TB on eBay for about $120 each. I installed Proxmox on them, and it’s been a much better experience. It's nice not having to deal with ARM. They look decent and, most importantly, are super quiet. So can even use them in the living room. Absolutely zero issues with this setup—boring hardware wins.

[srameshc]

This sounds interesting. Can you please elaborate on how you are using Proxmox ?

[domrdy]

I'm using Proxmox primarily to host a mix of VMs and containers that serve various purposes around my home and some utility software / local dev & testing servers. HomeAssistant, Plex, Pi-hole, Monica. Backup once a day to Google Drive.