New OS on ugreen DH4300
from Peluri96@feddit.org to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 02 Mar 08:57
https://feddit.org/post/26531726

Hello everyone,

i am thinking about getting a ugreen DH4300, however I don’t trust the company with their is so I am thinking about installing something like OMV on it. Has anyone here done that to this line of machines? I found no one saying anything about this online.

On another note. Currently I have a raspberry running my services. Would it even worth it to get that ugreen? Or should I just upgraded my pi with some hats or a DAS?

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MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip on 02 Mar 09:22 next collapse

Looking at the price of that Ugreen DH4300 (in the UK) it’s about 30% more than I paid to build my own server (Ryzen 5 3400g /w 16gb ddr4). If you can get second hand ddr4 for a decent price it’ll probably still be a cheaper option and allows you to do your own maintenance/repairs in the future.

Peluri96@feddit.org on 02 Mar 09:57 collapse

I was thinking about that as well, but I energy costs are a concern for me. May I ask how many watts your setup needs?

MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip on 02 Mar 10:26 collapse

My server is usually between 30w-40w (that’s about 20-25p per day electricity cost in the UK at 25p/kwH).

That’s with the aforementioned processor/ram, a Gigabyte A520M motherboard, 1 case fan, the stock cooler, a 120gb 2.5" SSD, 2 4TB 3.5" HDDs and 1 8TB 3.5" HDD (all drives always spinning).

It’s running OpenMediaVault as OS and 5 docker containers 24/7 (Flatnotes, FreshRSS, Kavita, qBittorrent and RecipeSage). Other than that I use it for media access from a MiniPC running Debian w/ Kodi accessing it via SMB (the server doesn’t transcode).

calamityjanitor@lemmy.world on 02 Mar 10:00 next collapse

Looks like it has an ARM CPU, a RK3588. Similar ballpark to a Pi 5 in CPU performance.

Installing another OS would be technically possible but not easy, you’d need a Linux kernel with the RK3588 drivers already in it. Then there are differences between it and other RK3588 SBCs that could cause problems.

Much like you wouldn’t want to install anything other than raspbian on a Pi, you’d be best off with ugreen’s OS even if others are technically possible.

CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de on 02 Mar 12:27 next collapse

I have one of their devices with an intel CPU. I didn’t even boot the OS. Just popped in the firmware and told it to boot proxmox. But it’s an i5 with 32GB RAM so a different scenario than you’re thinking of. Im still bitter about waiting for Black Friday to upgrade the RAM and paying double.

It’s LPDDR, I think that’s not upgradable, and not a lot.

Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz on 02 Mar 12:30 collapse

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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SBC Single-Board Computer
SMB Server Message Block protocol for file and printer sharing; Windows-native
SSD Solid State Drive mass storage

3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 8 acronyms.

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