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Cake day: May 5th, 2024

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  • I cobbled together a bunch of second hand stuff from eBay. An i5-12500T is at the heart of it for hardware accelerated encoding, 32 GB ram, an HBA controller for the 4 SAS drives (2x 11 TB and 2x 8 TB). Stuffed all that into an old atx case with an old PSU. Added a tiny touchscreen display for troubleshooting.

    I’m pretty happy with this setup. I’m using Unraid and I’m running an arr stack, downloads are done via usenet. Also running jellyfin, Navidrome, Komga, Immich and Adguard.

    Im still looking for a good Filesharing service that’s easy to configure and allows user registration.

    I’m fairly new to all this. So it’s an exciting journey!




















  • You can still go with unraid and buy more, smaller drives. Buy used SAS drives and an HBA. I recently bought a refurbished Dell optiplex with 32 gigs of ram and some i5 processor off eBay for 100€. SAS drives are really loud and consume more energy than consumer HDDs, but they last very long and are way cheaper.