Comment on CWWK NAS mini-ITX motherboard features six SATA connectors, three 2.5Gbps Ethernet ports
ptz@dubvee.org 5 months agoYeah, the arc encoders would be nice to have. My current setup struggles when it has to transcode AV1 streams. At least it can use HW acceleration for the encode phase.
Someone mentioned driver support may be iffy. Sounds like you didn’t hit any major issues there? I’d also likely be running Debian on it and using ZFS for my filesystem/LVM. Probably boot it from NVME and use all 6 SATA connectors for the pool drives.
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
yeah you just have to be aware that debian 12 might not by deefault, have the correct kernel needed for hardware acceleration, so youd have to go into debian testing to compile it yourself. If you attempt to cpu encode your way through things, you’d only get a couple of streams before it bogged itself down.
ptz@dubvee.org 5 months ago
Gotcha. Thanks.
I’m not 100% sold on running my media server on the NAS. It’s currently a separate box, and I’m still mostly leaning toward keeping it that way and letting the NAS just be a NAS.
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
if youre doing strictly NAS, yes, would highly recommend the cheaper cpu variants because that’s not required for it.