I want self host a media server with jellyfin,sonarr,radarr,prowlarr and qbittorrent and immich and nextcloud drive on a truenas scale. What sff do you recommend ?that can accommodate 2 ssd, and 4 4tb hdd?thank you
Used tiny/mini/micro.
Get the gen of Intel CPU you can afford purely for hw transcoding. 6th-8th gen is good, newer gets you more, even av1 becomes an option.
If you have a NAS, great, store videos there. If you dont, I’d upgrade the t/m/m with an m.2 and (config dependant) you can usually stick a 2.5" in there as well.
Proxmox for the OS, run lxc’s for the individual services you want, or make a docker LXC and run them in there. Personally I just make an LXC for each service.
Are you looking to build your own server?
If you’re thinking about building one, the Jonsbo N4 is a compact case (~20L) that fits up to six 3.5" drives and two 2.5" drives/SSDs. It’s a nice choice if you want something small but expandable. Just note that you’ll need to pick out your own components, and there are some limits when it comes to power supplies and CPU coolers.
What’s your budget?
As low as I can , a couple of hundred of euros
you can get away with half that. i run my setup (similar to what you wrote) on a dell micro sff with an i5 6500t and 16gb ram that i paid 90€ for. not the snappiest, but works just fine.
I’m using the same, Dell OptiPlex SFF.
Has an M2 for the OS, put a full size 8TB drive in for data. I run multiple VMs in VMware on Windows (yep, I know, not the best approach).
It has 32GB of RAM, and it does fine simultaneously converting video and streaming it via Jellyfin. My data is locally replicated to two other systems: a NAS that’s too slow to actually host anything, and a low power machine just for replication.
What I would do differently: run Linux and use KVM of some sort.
Currently it idles at about 15w, peaks at 80w when converting. It’s practically silent at idle.
Paid next to nothing for the box (~$50), most costs are in the ram and drive upgrade.
I went a bit more then a couple hundred, but if you buy some parts used, you can probably get something close to this. It’s super quiet, very low energy use, just works up there on the cabinet in my home office.
Edit: the case is a bit bigger, not exactly sff, but still small enough. The important thing is that it fits 6 big drives and could fit a few more ssds (currently it has 4 + an ssd), and even more important, low power = low electricity bill, low noise = I forget about it.
It runs jelly, hosts my photography hobby, has a few play services I rarely use.
