EQI12

honestly those are all pretty light workloads, you dont need much. a beelink ser5 or eq12 would be plenty - they go for like $150-250 on amazon and have decent cpus. or if you want even cheaper, grab a used lenovo thinkcentre tiny or dell optiplex micro off ebay for like $80-100. either way 16gb ram

A BeeLink U59 Pro has worked well for Home Assistant and Frigate in my setup - you can use an mini PCIe Coral TPU in the slot under the NVME. I use a BeeLink EQ12 for Opnsense without issue. Both are powered from a single GaN USB C quite happily. Emby & other apps live on my NAS as I wanted discreet

for under 00 the Beelink EQ12 or similar n100 mini PCs are hard to beat right now. you get a quad core, 16GB RAM, 500GB NVMe, and they idle around 8W. throw Proxmox on it and you can run a handful of LXC containers for your common services. if you want more storage options, an older Optiplex SFF wit

I dont know much about exact models or brands so i told chatgpt thinking to answer to your question: got you — here are mini-pc picks i’d actually buy for “nas + plex” (low idle, quiet, quick sync ready): asus expertcenter pn42 (n100/n200, fanless, dual 2.5gbe). rock-solid brand, silent, and the rar

I run a small <20 player server on a beelink eq12 in a vm proxmox container with 2 cores and 2gb of ram. It runs great. Only mods are geyser and floodgate. Check out papermc, it's a lot better with resources.