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Home server / NAS scaling (feddit.org)

submitted 5 days ago by Senseless@feddit.org to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Currently I'm thinking again about setting up a home server. But I am unsure about the scaling. In the hope to get some input from experienced users I'm coming here.

Services that I intend on running:

TrueNAS SCALE
Jellyfin
*arr stack
Immich
Nextcloud
Bitwarden (maybe)

I've read the Jellyfin documentation which states i5-11500 (because the toolkit for 7-10th gen is deprecated, even though you could encode H.264/H.265) or newer for CPU based encoding or at least a GTX 1660. Because electricity is quite expensive here, I'd prefer CPU encoding. On the other side, office systems with 11th or newer gen are far more expensive. I've found a i5-6500, 16 GB RAM, GTX 1660 system for 180 Euro incl. shipping. There are a few 7th-9th gen systems with 16 GB RAM available that use on board graphics and are 80-120 Euro excl. shipping but I'm not sure if they suffice running the mentioned services and maybe a few more I don't know about yet.

I have two WD Red and a WD Green lying around, I'd like to use. From what I've heard so far, it's necessary to use a separate drive to run TrueNAS off of, which I'd need to buy separately.

Maybe you can give me some insights. Thanks.

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[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

~~I feel like by "scaling" they mean upgradability. So either vertical (adding more drives, ram, cpu) or horizontal (adding more boxes that loadbalance an increase of multiple parallel tasks/users)~~ hahaha ooops

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Makes sense. Your 2nd definition is what I take from the term scaling. Let's see if op comes back with any notes.

[–] Senseless@feddit.org 2 points 4 days ago

Jup, just responded on the other comment.

[–] Senseless@feddit.org 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

More like would a i5-8500 or i3-9100 be sufficient to run the mentioned services and encode up to 4k, no HDR though.

[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

It states here that the 9300 is quicksync enabled, so should have no problem with nvec @4k. How many streams? I don’t know that one.