mrln_bllmnn

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What's your opinion about computers with non standard parts? in c/homelab@selfhosted.forum
[–] mrln_bllmnn@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

It really depends. I've seen PCs that use nonstandard parts just so you must use original parts, and systems which made use of new things like 12 volt only PSU really early and had great designs for easy access in a compact machine.

Should I assign all VLANs on a single port? in c/homelab@selfhosted.forum
[–] mrln_bllmnn@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

I use 1 port for management net without vlan, one for WAN and four as a LAG group for all my vlans to go to my switch.

Would an i3-4150 and 6GBs of memory be enough for a simple Plex and media storage server? in c/homelab@selfhosted.forum
[–] mrln_bllmnn@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

My plex Container has four Cores and 2 GB RAM. Works fine with just one Core transcoding 1080p24 HEVC.

(Ryzen 7 5700G)

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NVENC on PCIe 2.0 x1? (alien.top)
 

I recently upgraded my proxmox host and went with a Ryzen 5700G for GPU accelerated media enconding. Turns out my media server does recognize the iGPU but doesn't use it not matter the video format.

While CPU encoding works just fine with the performance at hand, I'd still prefer hardware acceleration and I am thinking about getting a PCIe x1 to x16 riser (or just removing the blocking part of an x1 slot...) to install my old Quadro P600 for NVENC, which worked fine in the previous hosts x16 slot when I didn't have a high bandwidth network card.

The board (MSI B450M PRO-VDH PLUS) has 1x PCIe 3.0 x16 used by an Intel X520-DA2 and 2x PCIe 2.0 x1 currently not in use.

My question is if the limited bandwidth of PCIe 2.0 x1 will influence the NVENC capabilities in a significant manner and if you have recommendations for trustworthy adapters which won't start a fire, preferrably available to buy in germany.

What useful containers are you running? in c/homelab@selfhosted.forum
[–] mrln_bllmnn@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Nginx proxy manager, Heimdall Dashboard, Hedgedoc, Your Spotify, pwpush, unifi controller, dmarc reporting tools, zammad and vailtwarden.

Ways to get started on a budget in c/homelab@selfhosted.forum
[–] mrln_bllmnn@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Get a used PC, haswell or newer. Those can be found for less than 50 €. Upgrade it to 16 gb ram, install proxmox.

What are the top five home-lab projects that helped you better understand I.T. and get some hands on experience? in c/homelab@selfhosted.forum
[–] mrln_bllmnn@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Setting up my own OPNsense router, setting up my own mail server (testing in homelab, then moved to DC as production), Univention Corporate Server as active directory for centralized authentication.

Does this worth 60 dollars and can it run a home server? in c/homelab@selfhosted.forum
[–] mrln_bllmnn@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

I've thrown out my Q6600 in 2020 and that was more than overdue. Deploying any Core 2 doesn't make sense in 2023 since you can get haswell and newer generations fully built (office PCs) for < 50 €.

How much electricity would this build cost? in c/homelab@selfhosted.forum
[–] mrln_bllmnn@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

I run various haswell i5 hosts, one of them has 84 watts tdp.

i5 4460, 4x 4GB, 1x sata ssd, 2x dual port gigabit lan pcie card. Whole thing draws < 50 watts with 10 % cpu load.