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Double Check - Hamiltro - 2024-10-22
I am looking to re-do my jellyfin/nas setup.
My current setup is a Frankenstein for sure.
Surface pro 3 (i5-4300U with 8GM of memory) running ubuntu with jellyfin on top. Then my "NAS" is a Asus Tinker Board (https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Tinker-board-RK3288-Mali-T764/dp/B06VSBVQWS?th=1) with external 14TB HDD hooked up over USB 2.0. When I get 2-3 users it starts getting unstable.
New System
N100 with 6 Sata ports (https://www.amazon.com/Industrial-Motherboard-Threads-Processor-Network/dp/B0CQZH8X2P)
16 GB of memory
4 - 14 TB drives in RAIDZ1 (data) (part of me wants to go 6 14TB drives in RAIDZ2, I know this is over kill and I am only 53% full on my one 14TB drive)
I have a spare Samsung SSD for OS drive or should I go with NVMe mirrored. I figured I would use the OS drive for cache also
OS: TrueNAS Scale
Currently I see about 2 to 3 users. I am sure that once I get a more stable setup I could see 4-5 users at once. I was not sure if the N100 would be enough. With that being said I would like to start migrating to 4k so more transcoding would be needed too. I think only one of the users would be able to use the 4k natively.
Should this be fine for a new system. I do plan to run an {stuff we don't talk about - TDP} along with a few other small containers. Is 16GB enough I have read where you can get 32 working but according to Intel the n100 does not support 32.
Thanks for double checking my proposed new build
RE: Double Check - TheDreadPirate - 2024-10-22
If you were only doing 1080P content, the N100 would be plenty for 4-5 users. With 4K in the mix, and probably HDR too, the N100 isn't enough, IMO.
A lower end CPU with a dedicated GPU would be sufficient. And definitely 32GB of RAM if you want to do things besides Jellyfin.
RE: Double Check - Hamiltro - 2024-10-22
Seems I would be better off and following "Techno Tim" jellyfin build (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLSWyTmM2r)
Intel Corei3 14100 CPU: https://amzn.to/3Zmaq2k
ASUS ROG Strix B760-I Motherboard: https://amzn.to/3XvqkVH
Corsair DDR5 RAM 64GB: https://amzn.to/3zbZD06
It only doubles the build $$$ but I would rather have it work great and somewhat future proof for a good 5-10 years
RE: Double Check - TheDreadPirate - 2024-10-22
Also consider an Arc GPU. HDR to SDR tone mapping is VRAM intensive. And iGPUs don't have a lot available to them.