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I'm moderately tech savvy, a little experience with most OS and comfortable with hardware. I've got some basic things working in Docker. I want to start self hosting my photo backup, Bitwarden, Jellyfish, Sonarr and Radarr, Pi hole, Home Assistant and replace Dropbox. But the more I dive into the hardware and setup the more muddled I'm finding myself.

I'm very concerned about power draw so the lower the consumption the better. I do want some parity, though I'm willing to I introduce that once it's set up. I'm not particularly concerned with transcoding but I guess it'd be a nice bonus.

Is a QNAP alone valid? Or perhaps I'm better off with a Pi and my huge GDrive while I learn? Or a NUC with better transcoding capability? I want to access my data internally, stream content to a Chromecast with Google TV.

My instinct is both a NUC and a separate NAS but I'e love it if anyone has some insight.

Thanks!

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[-] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 4 points 3 years ago

You can get the power consumption down to 5W by using the smaller versions. My HP prodesk g3 800 mini draws 5W and is perfectly capable of running docker, Jellyfin, etc.

And it was only 100€, which is pretty awesome.

[-] Elkenders@feddit.uk 1 points 3 years ago

Ooo that is cheap! What gen proc do you use in yours?

[-] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 2 points 3 years ago

It's an i5 6500t, and yes, it was a pretty good deal (local guy).

It's obviously an older chip, but it's still very capable and the machine has an m.2 and sata ports, so adding storage shouldn't be a problem.

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