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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • I would target spending less so that you have money to upgrade and fix mistakes. Spend half your budget now and then in a few weeks or months upgrade or change what you don’t like. It is better to screw up cheaper.

    If you don’t have a ton of data you could also go all flash. You can get low performance (but reliable) sata SSDs for not to much money. If you only have a few TB of data. I have a few of these and while they don’t set any speed records they have been solid and power friendly.



  • A few questions:

    • How much data are you going to store?

    • What performance are you targeting? (Power draw and application performance)

    • What do you project for future growth? Are you sticking to containers or are you wanting to use VMs?

    • What are you targeting for cost? You can buy a used workstation for not that much money which might be a better deal depending on what the end goal is.

    I would highly recommend that you do lots of research on ZFS before doing anything. You will benefit from ram way more than you will from a cache. Also cache drives wear out fast do to high number of writes.

    I also would go for Intel if you are thinking about Jellyfin since Intel has better encoding. (At least on hardware more than 1-2 years old)