T320 self hosting setup advice?

T320 self hosting setup advice?

Hey everyone!

I joined this hobby to regain data control and comtrol of media while also reducing my monthly costs.. (which I'm realizing with my need to tinker isn't gonna reduce much) but I started with a sff thinkcentre. that had to use an external bay for HDDs. i was in debian 13 with docker.

I recently got a t320 for 350 cad running the 4 core 4 thread Xeon processor and 32gb of ram. and 4 of the 8 bays with caddies. just trying to avoid buyers remorse while I've done research I would like the communities suggestions and advice and thoughts on the platform! 😁 what upgrades would you make initially?

based on what I've seen proxmox is the way to go so far but open to suggestion. what would you throw in a vm versus what you'd throw in an lxc?

my current stack of services right now:

Jellyfin

navidrome

audiobookshelf

arr stack

tandoor recipes

tailscale was bare metal to make connection easy

homepage and deckhand

paperless and Stirling pdf

nextcloud is a service i want to add

and while I know this is a divisive topic making use of local models:

ollama with open webui

n8n

maybe openclaw or I like to hear how the community implements it.

feel free to answer all or none of these questions. I am working on it on my own but like hearing different points of view. and please tell me I didn't make a bad purchase haha....