Technology Home Media Server

[Khastle]

I'm making a home media server currently and I was wondering if anyone on here has experience with making them? This will be my first one and I'm quite happy with what I have planned so far. I'll be using a NV3 Kingston for the SSD OS, two mirrored Seagate Ironwolfs mirrored 4tb HDDs for my Jellyfin media library, 32GB of Corsair Vengance DDR4 3200mhz ram, and will all be processed by Intel N100. Case I'll be using is a Topton R1 Pro which looks like a futuristic air freshener but I've heard good things all things considered. For the OS I'll most likely be using Proxmox or Ubuntu server.

I'd like to hear your thoughts on my build below and also advice ans tips if you've built your own server in the past.

 

[Bibr]

Summon @krop (stop lurking you fag)

32gb might not work

Maximum RAM for Intel N100?

I'm searching for a low-power board for my own home server, but there is something I don't understand about the Intel N100: ASRock states it supports 32GB of RAM Intel states the maximum RAM is 16GB

superuser.com

Intel n100 specs state that it supports up to 16gb and it's a luck factor if 32gb stick will run. IMO anyway 16gb will be more than plenty for this tast. IMO raid 1 is a waste of space, unless you plan on storing there some of your heckin lost media and some valuable personal files.
Drives will be new, or something refurbished from ebay ? You can get some real cheap decomissioned drives there

 

[Khastle]

Summon @krop (stop lurking you fag)

32gb might not work

Maximum RAM for Intel N100?

I'm searching for a low-power board for my own home server, but there is something I don't understand about the Intel N100: ASRock states it supports 32GB of RAM Intel states the maximum RAM is 16GB

superuser.com

Intel n100 specs state that it supports up to 16gb and it's a luck factor if 32gb stick will run. IMO anyway 16gb will be more than plenty for this tast. IMO raid 1 is a waste of space, unless you plan on storing there some of your heckin lost media and some valuable personal files.
Drives will be new, or something refurbished from ebay ? You can get some real cheap decomissioned drives there

Oh wtf it said it could on the listing wtf!!!!

 

[Khastle]

Summon @krop (stop lurking you fag)

32gb might not work

Maximum RAM for Intel N100?

I'm searching for a low-power board for my own home server, but there is something I don't understand about the Intel N100: ASRock states it supports 32GB of RAM Intel states the maximum RAM is 16GB

superuser.com

Intel n100 specs state that it supports up to 16gb and it's a luck factor if 32gb stick will run. IMO anyway 16gb will be more than plenty for this tast. IMO raid 1 is a waste of space, unless you plan on storing there some of your heckin lost media and some valuable personal files.
Drives will be new, or something refurbished from ebay ? You can get some real cheap decomissioned drives there

Was unable to cancel but seeing reports with the Topton that it works fine so should be ok

https://forum.marianabay.com/redirect?to=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmVkZGl0LmNvbS9yL01pbmlQQ3Mvcy8zekRFTXZOY0Zy

(Idc its Reddit, site is good for tech support)

 

[Khastle]

Drives will be new, or something refurbished from ebay ? You can get some real cheap decomissioned drives there

Hate to triple post but forgot to reply to this part: yes they are new, used HDDs are hit and miss and since this is gonna be a server that'll be on for long periods I didn't want to risk getting something used and it fucking up in the first month, comes with a year's warranty anyways which should be more than enough to see if the drives will work well in the long run as I hear if a drive is bad it will usually fuck up in the first year.

 

[Bibr]

Bro desperately needs to stay as top 1 poster of the month no problem fam
This whole 32gb of ram thing is something that I found by accident. IMO if manufacturer of this PC claims "up to 32gb", then it's gonna work.
If those drives are new i seriously wouldn't bother with mirroring them. Once you start to hoard data, space will be an issue, and it's not like you can put third drive there

 

[Khastle]

Bro desperately needs to stay as top 1 poster of the month no problem fam
This whole 32gb of ram thing is something that I found by accident. IMO if manufacturer of this PC claims "up to 32gb", then it's gonna work.
If those drives are new i seriously wouldn't bother with mirroring them. Once you start to hoard data, space will be an issue, and it's not like you can put third drive there

I'm only mirroring as I get way too paranoid over disk failure and that assurance that if one dies the other will be fine puts me at ease, yes another friend said the same thing that if you don't have lost media on there (which tbh I don't) then mirroring seems silly as almost everything can be redownloaded if the worse does happen anyways, but thats effort if it does happen and also I get too overboard with data hoarding ngl lol, I like having that file limit there so I don't get too autistically obssesed with creating the best media collection in the world.