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Thanks for the reply! Yes, having a clear upgrade path was a big part of this. Just being able to move forward when needed without replacing stuff for a bit.

I’ll have to look at jellyfin I haven’t dug too deep on the media host yet. Thanks for the heads up :))

Looks like 4 sata headers. So prolly gonna grab some hdds.

As for my network. I have a decent router, though I can’t remember the model at the moment. I’m using a 1gig switch at the moment to split everything through my network. I’m planning to get that upgraded to a 10g next.

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ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Don’t spend money moving from 1G to 10G if you’re not close to saturating your 1G switch, given you’ve only got one real server then the limiting factor will be the NIC on the server and I can’t imagine an a520 Mobo with anything more than 1G. And buying a PCI NIC for it shouldn’t be a priority if it’s not strictly needed. You’re also going to be limited by your Internet speeds, the HDD speeds and a lot of other factors before you can actually really get good utilization on a 10G Port. I struggle saturating my 2.5G NIC and I run quite a bit of things and have done various benchmark tests and it’s not easy saturating even 1G with real world load. Not to mention all the new ethernet cables you’ll need since most don’t have 10G cables in their setup, but 1G capable cables are fairly standard at least.

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- Grenfur@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Makes sense! Thanks for saving me some time and money. I have gig internet as is so I know both my router and switch can handle it. Should be good with what I’ve got then for a while. Thank you kindly :))
  
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pete_the_cat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
10g is of course only useful when all your devices have 10g ports. I have 2x 10g NICs in my server and a TP-Link switch that has 8x 1g ports and 2x 10g ports, the only time I would use 10g is between my server and my desktop, and that of course cost me like $100 just for the 10g NIC for my desktop. 10g isn’t really that useful in a home network since most things are limited to 1g. I still can’t believe that my $2700 flat screen from 2017 only has a 10/100 port on it…

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- Grenfur@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Ahhh well then I should be good on 1g. Thanks for saving me some bucks though :)
  
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  - pete_the_cat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    No problem! 10g sounds great in theory and then you realize that 99% of your connected devices are limited to 1g and there’s nothing you can do about it.
    
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