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Getting in a pickle over hardware (feddit.uk)
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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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[-] rentar42@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

as it has SATA ports

More. PCIe SATA controllers are cheap (even though you'll often hear "get a HBA and flash it", it's not absolutely necessary).

[-] appel@whiskers.bim.boats 1 points 3 years ago

Ah good point. Even more then :)

[-] CazRaX@lemmy.world 1 points 3 years ago

I currently have an HBA that breaks it into 8 DATA connections and was wondering if an 8 port SATA controller would be lower power usage and work as well. My HBA is a server one and rather old, it's a Dell H310 flashed. Then again I am thinking of replacing the MB and upgrade to a newer CPU that is more energy efficient than my current Xeon E3-1270 just can't seem to find the right one.

[-] rentar42@kbin.social 1 points 3 years ago

I'm far from an expert in HBAs and never used one myself. but it is my understanding that the major advantage is that you're extremely unlikely to get a janky one whereas Sata controllers could be bad (they are often cheaply made non brand products). if they work either one is fine in a hone lab setting.

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