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.
For video encoding, I run an 8th gen Intel i5 8500t. The quicksync is good enough for nearly anything 1080p.
Not sure what you mean by the “scaling”.
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 ooopsMakes sense. Your 2nd definition is what I take from the term scaling. Let’s see if op comes back with any notes.
Jup, just responded on the other comment.
More like would a i5-8500 or i3-9100 be sufficient to run the mentioned services and encode up to 4k, no HDR though.
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.