I want self host a media server with jellyfin,sonarr,radarr,prowlarr and qbittorrent and immich and nextcloud drive on a truenas scale. What sff do you recommend ?that can accommodate 2 ssd, and 4 4tb hdd?thank you
I want self host a media server with jellyfin,sonarr,radarr,prowlarr and qbittorrent and immich and nextcloud drive on a truenas scale. What sff do you recommend ?that can accommodate 2 ssd, and 4 4tb hdd?thank you
you can get away with half that. i run my setup (similar to what you wrote) on a dell micro sff with an i5 6500t and 16gb ram that i paid 90€ for. not the snappiest, but works just fine.
I’m using the same, Dell OptiPlex SFF.
Has an M2 for the OS, put a full size 8TB drive in for data. I run multiple VMs in VMware on Windows (yep, I know, not the best approach).
It has 32GB of RAM, and it does fine simultaneously converting video and streaming it via Jellyfin. My data is locally replicated to two other systems: a NAS that’s too slow to actually host anything, and a low power machine just for replication.
What I would do differently: run Linux and use KVM of some sort.
Currently it idles at about 15w, peaks at 80w when converting. It’s practically silent at idle.
Paid next to nothing for the box (~$50), most costs are in the ram and drive upgrade.
This was my starting up machine. Of course, an nvme makes sense, especially running windows on it. I went for Proxmox, and now I have 4 different machines, a cluster of 3 similar sffs, and a chunkier boi with an i7, 64gb ram and a quadro gpu. This one was the most expensive, around 250€.
Beware, this is how it starts. From a single machine in my office, I went to a mini Datacenter in my cellar, with 4 “servers” (micro-pcs), two Nas devices, a raspberry pi cluster, a dell wyse cluster, new switches and access points, and so much more :))