Well, after reading more…I got the AMD, with reading that the CPU is much more powerful than the Intel one and it can handle transcoding w/o a problem…so I backtracked on that initial thought.
I guess I’ll be an all AMD house again. I asked a friend on a trip timing and realized I’ve been running that mini-pc for 7 or 8 years, it’s probably time it gets put out to pasture.
Apparently transcoding would be better on the intel, there’s links with videos about it on this thread and comments in that regard on different thread on reddit. But, hey, idw ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Where did you get yours from ? (do you live in the US?)
It’d be so nice if you could report your experience once you’re set up 
Cheers !
Yes (and that’s why I originally favored the Intel), but I decided with it being just me (no family), I typically don’t use it enough to make much difference as long as it can handle it the occassional load (heat being the enemy of electronics to some extent). The extra cpu could do other things (thus the AMD).
I ordered the server from Amazon, because other places didn’t seem to have anything in stock but the no RAM/no SSD models and the prices were identical.
I ordered the drives from NewEgg as the best pricing seemed to be there.
I’d be happy to report back perhaps in late February when I’ve had time to install it, migrate the drives, and see what it can do.
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Golly gee, Newegg is on top of it, the drives package is already picked up and in UPS possession. Too bad I can’t play with it till the server arrives (est mid Feb), though Amazon often updates dates to quicker.
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Yes it’s about 37% more powerful. From what i have read on it.
That’s quite a bit of potential there (37%)!
Appreciated!
I’ll probably end up getting something similar (if not exactly similar 
), I arrived at the same conclusions regarding the CPU.
Overall I think this ain’t a bad deal if you weight dollars / consumption / horse power
For a NAS usage exclusively it is probably overkill in terms of specs, but if you compare to any “turnkey” setup on the market it’s a fraction of the price and you don’t end up stuck with proprietary software.
And of course if you want more than a NAS, the question doesn’t even arise…
Yeah, while storage is the main thing…I want it to work for me…and this will certainly give me more CPU/RAM to explore new things. Who knows, maybe I can do something to tie into house automation.
I think it would be (much?) more than that in multithreading
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/5157vs4788/Intel-N100-vs-AMD-Ryzen-7-5825U
Well, it’s just benchmarks I guess, but still, 8 cores 16 threads vs 4 core 4 threads, and 3 times the clock speed, you would expect it.
More consumption of course, but still very low, and not even sure there’s that much of a difference when running the whole system.
Anyway, if the price is cheaper and if it’s not to run 50 VMs at the same time, I assume the N100 is perfect.
Yes it was referring to single thread scores.
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Ok, I was thinking (yes a very rare activity it seems) about my disk usage. I don’t really know that much (bare minimum really) about zfs, so…help me? Please beat some best practices into me!
Here’s the quick recap of storage: 4 4-TB drives in a zraid1 configuration (one disk parity), which should yield approx 12 TB of usable storage.
Here’s my current storage usage total on my crappy shoestring system (6 TB) mostly media for jellyfin, but also a digital photo vault (300 GB photos). Everything is currently in one pool (because I did the very simplest configuration-one stripe). I think I would like to do better in the upcoming configuration and would like some input.
I was thinking the majority would go to the jellyfin media, since that’s what is taking up most of the space now. A photos repo (thinking 1/2 a TB would probably last me my lifetime as I don’t take as many photos as I used to). And possibly considering a Nextcloud space (my various cloud storage options currently take up less than 4GB, so is it even worth it for a single persons usage? Should I just lump it into the photos?)
Do I need to continue what I’m doing and just have a single mass out there to utilize striping + one parity drive? Or can I subdivide it in some logical fashion?
With regard to network functions (minor) DNS caching (unbound) NTP service, I’m guessing it’s poor taste/form to configure that into the TrueNAS base and would be better in some other fashion. Well, actually checking in a virtual machine, they do have chrony installed, so I should be able to use the host for NTP sync. Hate to run a whole virtual machine just to cache DNS? Thoughts?
Any other must haves/should have on the app list?
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