EQI12

honestly those are all pretty light workloads, you dont need much. a beelink ser5 or eq12 would be plenty - they go for like $150-250 on amazon and have decent cpus. or if you want even cheaper, grab a used lenovo thinkcentre tiny or dell optiplex micro off ebay for like $80-100. either way 16gb ram

For what you get now with the RAMpocalypse the Atom Celeron N150 mini PCs from a reputable brand aren't making much sense. As an example after a few weeks of use a friend of mine returned there MINI S13 for a Beelink EQi12 Core i3-1220P. The EQi12 brought dual channel memory, dual NIC and dual 2280

beelink s12 / eq12 is the sweet spot for that stack. n100 transcodes 1080p without breaking a sweat and handles 4k hevc-to-h264 via qsv. go 16gb ram minimum — immich's ml container alone wants 4gb when it's generating clip embeddings, and nextcloud preview generation can spike pretty hard if you've

i ran into this exact choice last year. for most homelab stuff nfs is totally fine - just keep it simple. the single point of failure risk matters less than you think unless you're running critical production. glusterfs or ceph add complexity. if you want to keep power low, those n100 mini pcs work

I started with USB coral on Beelink EQ12 (N100) then with an HP Elite Desk 800 G3? (i5-8500), then a dual coral on pcie, and a month or two ago an Intel Ultra 5-125h ($500 mini pc PELADN Mini PC,Core Ultra 5 125H Mini Desktop Computer, 32GB Dual DDR5/512GB M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSD). I have 9 cameras. I was

for under 00 the Beelink EQ12 or similar n100 mini PCs are hard to beat right now. you get a quad core, 16GB RAM, 500GB NVMe, and they idle around 8W. throw Proxmox on it and you can run a handful of LXC containers for your common services. if you want more storage options, an older Optiplex SFF wit

The beelink eq12 is great, (1220p version).

I bought a beelink EQ12 and it's solid solid, probably 2-4x overkill for me. https://a.co/d/03R95oeh (if the stupid short link doesn't work let me know and I'll use a computer that doesn't hijack my links into apps to get a clean one later)

for remote access with 4K content, hardware transcoding is what makes or breaks it. the good news is you don't need to spend much — an N100-based mini PC (beelink eq12 or s12 pro) runs around $150-200 and handles jellfin hardware transcode with intel quicksync no problem. for storage on a budget i'd

A $50 wired only router. You already have a dedicated WiFi AP (I think). So just put the ATT (in full passthrough mode) ==> router ==> switch/network/AP. I used a ubiquiti ER-X for what feels like a decade. It was, and probably still is solid. A popular replacement at the same price point was the TP