Great news! I started my selfhost journey over a year ago, and I’m finding myself needing better hardware. There’s so many services I want that my NAS can’t handle. And I unfortunately need to add GPU transcoding to my Jellyfin setup.

What’s the best OS for a machine focused on containers and (getting started with) VMs? I’ve heard Proxmox

What CPU specs should I be concerned about?

I’m willing to buy a pre-built as long as its hardware has sufficient longevity.

    • Bronzie@sh.itjust.works
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      1 hour ago

      I run a 4 bay and a N100 NUC.

      The Synology is almost a pure storage machine. Works really well with Proxmox on the side. Not a single file has made it kneel yet, and I’ve thrown some high bitrate badboys on it.

      Is not upgrading the drives an alternative?

      I feel like you sacrifice a lot of practicality removing the NAS, such as automatic backup from phones and very easy remote access.
      Personally I also prefer separating data and software, so I don’t lose it all if a component fails.

      Just my .02

    • borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      23 hours ago

      I have a 6 bay, so yeah that might be a little limiting. I have all my personal stuff backed up to an encrypted cloud mount, the bulk of my storage space is pirated media I could download again, and I have the Synology using SHR so I just plug in a bigger drive, expand the array, then plug in another bigger drive and repeat. Because of duplication sectors you might not benefit as much from that method with just 4 bays. Or if you have enough stuff you can’t feasible push to up to the cloud to give piece of mind during rebuilding I guess.