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Ooooh.
I’ve just spent the day installing Synology DSM on a passively cooled micro pc with a Pentium N3510 and 4gb of ram.
I haven’t had a chance to test performance yet. Certainly not 4K capable but that’s okay. If it can handle 1080p I’ll mark it a win.
Sonarr and Radarr in dockers on DSM.
12tb USB attached HDD.
I’m not sure if this will be a permanent setup. Will depend what the 1080p performance is like.
But I had the box sitting in the cupboard and I’m really keen to cut ties with streaming services
I’d have loved to go all 4k myself, but I just don’t have the storage capacity for it atm. plus, even with my 4K tv, I just don’t see such a huge difference between 4K and 1080. I have a small apt so I don’t have a huge tv. if I did, I’d notice I more, I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeh I’m similar. I’ve found that yeh it looks a bit better but at 10x the storage it starts being really cost prohibitive for a small benefit.
On a side note, I’ve got the server up and running and it crushes 1080p. No performance issues at all.
Absolutely insane from a 7.5w TDP cpu. Seven POINT five watt.
I’m still rocking a 2011 iMac for my server a a ghastly 350W. I hate it. it’s slow af, but kills it for my needs, which will hopefully last until I can afford to replace it. it’s been my server for the last 12 years… I ran a - get this - a Pentium 4 4GHz before that as my Plex server!