I settled for a meager Dell 3060 mini form factor PC (small thick book factor) for a NAS and a PiHole and it’s performing more than adequately. I am considering adding a media server and CI/CD to it because the i3 CPU and the SATA III SSD turned out to be performing much better than I expected (my ZFS pool is on external HDDs connected via USB 3.0 connectors).
That being said, I am still drooling over some of the R1000 / V1000 AMD mini PCs that have dual 10 GbE cards… But I am not willing to sink 2000+ EUR on a single machine.
