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Have an old NUC... (self.selfhosted)

submitted 7 months ago by Axisential to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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So, I have an old 3rd or 4th gen Intel NUC that's I used to use to run Kodibuntu back in the day. I'm thinking of repurposing it into a low power home server to run the *arr suite, Jellyfin and nextcloud plus maybe some other bits. Nothing too taxing that I can see.

Obviously I need hard drive space to go with this. Is a USB enclosure, directly attached, going to be fast enough? Or do I need to go to a NAS of some kind? Alternatively, my router has a USB connection for a HDD - would that be better?

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[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I run my stuff on a NUC 10 and yeah, it's kind of a bummer they have 1 slot inside for storage, right?

I have two external USB drives plugged into mine, one for media and the other for backups. That's plenty fast enough for my uses, including Jellyfin (movies and tv shows, a little transcoding) and about 10 other low-usage docker containers. YMMV.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

Same setup here, two USB drives dangling from my NUC. One of them is even notably slow for a USB drive. Still not an issue at all for home use. I'd probably need a dozen or more people all watching different things on Jellyfin at the same time before it even approached being a problem.