Comment on Need help deciding on hardware
Fermiverse@feddit.de 1 year ago
I went for the ASRock J5040 board, 16gb ram a 500gb m.2 as system using a PCI adapter , 2x4tb ironwolf as ZFS mirror pool, 350 W power supply all in the node 304 fractal case for 550 euro altogether.
Runs proxmox as hypervisor for VM or Container. 6 LXC running motioneye, plex, pyload with openvpn, syncthing, rclone cloud backup and openbookshelf.
Typical power usage is around 20W
That said it could also run on PicoPSU
Infernal_pizza@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Do you ever wish you had more processing power or does it do everything you need?
Fermiverse@feddit.de 1 year ago
Not yet. All of the LXC containers run on 2 cores of the 4 and 2gb of RAM and 512MB swap where reserved. I can address more power if needed.
As none of my services run constant on full power the low power of the CPU is not a problem. I serve only my home with it.
zingo@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I have been running a Synology NAS, 416 play with a Celeron n3060 (I think) dual core with 8GB ram.
It runs all my docker services (around 20) with no issues. Containers are more RAM bound than CPU. Uses about 40-45 ℅ of the RAM.
The only limit is when transcoding as suppose to Direct playing a movie. Then it really taxes the CPU. But I don’t really watch movies so its a non issue.
So a NAS doesn’t need a beefy CPU if used as a file server. Can be tricky if you run Plex on it though.