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OK, I'm going down the TrueNAS route and it's all you fault.

I think it's escalating into a beefy home server. I've been looking at the System76 lineup.

Any recommendations?

Will be NAS, Node, Plex, etc. Might put a GPU in there to play with local LLMs.
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utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 2y ago

I think diy with AMD and ECC ram is the way to go.

Install proxmox as hypervisor, run truenas in a vm, although this can be pretty complicated and annoying, might be simpler to just get a dedicated device with truenas running bare metal

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utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 2y ago

Truenas has this annoying thing where the host reserves a GPU, so without integrated graphics you can't actually pass it to your Plex instance, kinda fail

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Nathan Day 2y ago

What does truenas need the GPU for?

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utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 2y ago

It doesn't need it but the software blocks you, it's so stupid 😔, apparently no fix that I could find

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The Fockin’ Fury 2y ago

I went this route with TrueNAS running in a Proxmox VM and the HBA card with the entire array of spinning disks passed thru to TrueNAS. I chose Intel because of its video transcoding capabilities (media server is one of my use cases). 70 different Docker containers running including my LN node and Nostr relays. I also roll without ECC RAM because I’m a fucking maniac. But the system is rock solid and was super rewarding to cobble together.