Also just nice to see a company that understands that a healthy community helps them business wise. So refreshing in an age of enshittification.

I have not had any problems on my end. I do know that for encoding, there are some quality issues with AMF when comparing it against Nvidia and Intel at equivalent bitrates that was only resolved with the latest 90xx series, but for Jellyfin purposes it works perfectly fine.

I prefer AMD over Intel because for 3D acceleration, AMD wins hands down. I also like AMD CPUs over the absolute power-hungry heaters that are Intel CPUs because it allows me to use lower profile coolers and cheaper PSUs.

You most likely want graphics for initial install and troubleshooting (like when your NAS loses connection for example). I would recommend a 5600G instead. Nice little APU that works great with Jellyfin transcoding. It’s what I have in my own DIY NAS.

I’m actually going the other way and building a proper server out of an ancient HP Proliant ML110 G2 that my dad gave me.

Haha, one of my top concerns at the beginning was form factor. I really could not find a decent 4-bay case at the time that wasn’t super hard to build in or a full-blown ATX. I think the closest I found was a Jonsbo N2, but it doesn’t give enough space for a decent cooler. What I ended up going with was total overkill, a NZXT H1 with a PCI-E NVMe expansion card that gave me 3 extra NVMe slots. So now I have a RAIDZ1 array made up 4x 4TB SSDs. The overall form factor is nice, but the performance is completely ridiculously overspecced. My rationale though is that the SSDs were cheap enough and I think they’ll outlast a regular HDD. I was annoyed at how my WD Reds died within 3-4 years back when I was still using my QNAP.

Now that locally hosting AI models is becoming a thing, I am kinda regretting going small form factor because I can’t cram GPUs in there. So now I am thinking maybe getting one of those 4-foot high small server cabinets and getting a few Sliger CX4170a’s and just building full PCs. I would probably move my main PC into that rack as well. But this is all just thoughts. Budget wise it’s a bit ridiculous, but one can dream!

Sufficient I suppose. Limited by the single USB 3 connection.

Dang, if they made an updated one with USB 4, that’d be sick. Heck, I wouldn’t even mind if they had multiple USB connections coming out of the thing, I just like the form factor.

Interesting! I am assuming each drive shows up as an independent drive that you can raid up however you want in software? Man I was looking for something like this, but at the time I was building my NAS, I couldn’t find something similar so I just decided to build a whole new machine with enough space to contain the drives themselves. Had I known, I might have gone with this and a NUC or something. How’s the performance?

I feel like containers work just as well for the “blow it away” usecase though and it doesn’t have the VM overhead.

Oh yeah. I bet you’re feeling lucky you didn’t switch to Synology given the recent drama where they’re locking features down to their branded hard drives, which we all know are just up-charged drives from regular vendors.

What drive bay enclosure are you using btw and how does it connect to your Mac mini?

Never heard of dockge. I’ll have to check it out! I’ve just been using podman and docker-compose scripts.

I think it’s a samba limitation. Maybe NFS works well for that case.

I used to do that. I had a QNAP NAS and a small Intel NUC running Arch that would host all my services. I would just mount the NAS folders via Samba into the NUC. Problem is that services can’t watch the filesystem for changes. If I add a video to my Jellyfin directory, Jellyfin won’t automatically initiate a scan.

Nowadays, I just combine them into one. Just seems simpler that way.

If you’re familiar with Linux, I highly recommend it. The flexibility is just great and you can setup whatever dashboards / management tools you need. No need to tie yourself to a specific solution IMHO.

If you’re going with Docker containers, a lot of the NAS OSes just hold you back because they don’t support all the options that Docker offers. You’ll be fighting the system if you need to do any advanced Docker configuration.

It was this nasty Intel clock drift bug: https://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?t=157459

Support was completely unresponsive and refused to do anything. Didn’t even acknowledge the issue AFAIK. I tried to add the resistor but my copy of the NAS didn’t expose the right pins so I couldn’t even solder them on if I wanted to. Then I tried mounting my drives into another Linux machine, at which point I realized they were using some custom version of LVM that didn’t work with standard Linux. I ended up having to buy a new QNAP NAS just to retrieve my data and then I returned it.

After that, I swore off proprietary NASes. If I can’t easily retrieve data from perfectly good drives, it is an absolute no go.

When my QNAP finally died on me, I decided to build a DIY NAS and did consider some of the NAS OSes, but I ultimately decided that I really just wanted a regular Linux server. I always find the built-in app stores limiting and end up manually running Docker commands anyways so I don’t feel like I ever take advantage of the OS features.

I just have an Arch box and several docker-compose files for my various self-hosting needs, and it’s all stored on top of a ZFS RaidZ-1. The ZFS array does monthly scrubs and sends me an email with the results. Sometimes keeping it simple is the best option, but YMMV.

That’s good to hear. I think self-hosting is one of the strongest use cases for Linux. I am a big self-hoster myself so I am glad to hear he’ll still pop in every now and then and give us the latest news in the space.

I hate to say it, but depending on manufacturers for this kind of stuff will always inevitably lead to these kinds of situations. This is why I always buy OpenWrt compatible routers and DIY my own NAS.

Over the years, I’ve experienced:

• Netgear refusing to patch bugs like their IPv6 firewall essentially letting all traffic through on the R7800
• QNAP shipping NASes with Intel CPUs that had clock drift issues so bad they essentially bricked themselves. They then refused to provide any kind of support for them.

After that I basically said, fuck it, I’ll DIY my own and have been much happier ever since. If you have the know-how and the time, DIY is the way to go for longevity.

I’ve been using my AMD 5600G’s iGPU to do hardware decode and encode in Jellyfin and it works pretty well. Only downside is that it doesn’t support AV1, but it works well with H264 and H265.

Fuck those guys. I really wish LG would support DP a bit more in their products.

You may want to consider dockerizing your services just for maintainability and isolation from your host. I recommend something like Nginx Proxy Manager to serve as the “main entrance” for your docker network and to handle Let’s Encrypt for you.

Yes and no. It’s great for hiding your IP and preventing DDOS attacks, but it does require you to use their certs, which means they technically have access to your data. Cloudflare is pretty trustworthy, but the risk is still there.

Definitely not crazy. The first trailer was way more frenetic and action packed. Second trailer feels more like PUBG or like a third person Warzone.

Nope, you’re running into the dreaded AMD HDMI 2.1 limitation. The situation just sucks.