MangoPenguin

I set up Plex/Jellyfin specifically to get away from having to manage media manually, it tracks watch states, gets subtitles, transcodes for me when I'm traveling, and does all of that for family too.

MPV is neat but its just a standard media player app like VLC, not really anywhere near the same concept as Jellyfin.

Seeding works fine without port forwarding. Just won't be connecting to as many peers.

Right? A burrito is $10+ and they wonder why people don't go there as often.

For normal use like that 16GB is generally just fine. Some games can use enough that you'll need to close Firefox and other RAM hungry programs though.

As far as needing more than that, people who do heavy design work or edit videos and that kind of thing generally do. For example 32GB running Fusion in Davinci Resolve can be a bit limiting sometimes with higher resolution or 10 bit footage.

That ones actually fine IMO because they advertise Mbps which is fairly clearly different from MBps (b vs B, bit vs byte), and very easy to convert between.

Another day, another unreal engine game with massive performance issues.

Oh I see what you mean yeah, I've never used NFS before with it.

Yeah it sounds nice but too much time investment for me.

I can install PBS client on any system but it requires manual setup and scheduling which I don't want to do. When used with Proxmox that's all handled for me.

Also I don't think Proxmox cares about storage either, I just use ZFS which is completely standard under the hood.

Thats bad practice though, external drives in Linux should be mounted with no write caching just like they are in windows.

No backup utility like PBS though, thats why I haven't switched.

Intel AMT also works for out of band management on consumer hardware.

I don't think I've ever had a quality brand PSU go out on me. Software RAID like MD or ZFS works fine on basically any hardware, and I wouldn't use hardware RAID these days anyways.

I used to worry about that stuff and use enterprise hardware, but its just so expensive for decent performance, and so power hungry.

Like try and match even a budget i3-12100 or similar for single thread performance (needed for game servers mostly) and you really can't with used enterprise gear. Plus that i3 has an iGPU that can handle a ton of transcoding tasks, and ML for stuff like immich search or frigate object detection. And it uses about 10w or less most of the time.