I’m trying to pick a home server and I can’t find any one who has used a Slice. The one I am looking at is a i5-6500T, 8GB Ram, 256GB NVMe. Any reason why people don’t use these as servers?
It’s fine, people use the Dell and Lenovo ones all the time. Just covers down to what they get
Tons of people use them for servers.
Most running jellyfin would be looking for more 3.5" drive space than a mini PC can provide.
Your main dividing factor in this regard is if you want to do transcoding or not. If so, you need to pick a CPU with good iGPU, and for Intel that starts on the 8th gen. Older gens work well for 1080p, but for 4k they aren’t great. I have a i5-7500 that couldn’t do 4k HEVC without lag (although I was using it as HTPC. Maybe headless would be enough?)
For anything else, mostly any computer will do. Most of the stuff you host will be idle most of the time, so your CPU only needs to be powerful enough for the apps you are using at the moment.