Yup and I read TFA and it's not clear: "The death and rebirth of my home server" and, somehow, his Raspberry Pi is his server!? Running RAID, I'm Mich (immich), Jellyfin, etc. all from a Pi is amazing.

Don't get me wrong: I've got like seven Pis, 4 NUCs (but only one "recent" N100 one) and even though two of the Pis are up 24/7 (one runs the unbound DNS and the other, well, serves as a router/firewall to isolate my main PC from the rest of the machines) my server, as in the machine that has disks in RAID (ZFS), runs VMs, containers (including Immich and Jellyfin), etc. is a Xeon with ECC RAM.

I had no idea a Pi 4 was that beefy.

Now of course booting off a microSD card: yuk (I know, I know, there are read-only trickeries that can be achieved).

> The important stuff mostly lived in external HDDs and the configuration lived almost entirely in my NixOS configuration.

Yeah NixOS or what-have-you: if you have server, I'd recommend you have a plan B for when it fails. My little infra at home is mostly automated: it's all scripts provisioning the VMs, setting up cloudinit for the first boot, etc.

As long as I've got backups of my config/scripts and of my data, setting up a new server really doesn't take long (heck I did it not long ago, mostly to be sure the "death and rebirth" procedure of my own server was sound).

I personally prefer my 10+ years old Xeon with ECC as a server than my N100 NUC but then the Xeon consumes more energy... YMMV.