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Looks good to me.

The board has 4x m.2 slots apparently. So if you were willing you could get 2 extra nvme drives and use them as your cache instead. (Assuming the other 2 already purchased are for raid1 OS).

Have fun!

I never understood why people use unraid, mostly because I never understood the “parity” features, or honestly between you and me the lack of proper parity. But I have a Synology, so I can’t talk (price wise) and I have raid 5 everywhere so parity is a joke here too :p

Top tier post!

How are the noctua fans? I’m always worried they are not going to be powerful enough to push/pull air through to make a dent for the HDDs

Yep. Keep the WAN port dhcp Client enabled if you can, just one less thing to worry about.

Also take note that when you change the static IP of the new router it would conflict with the old one (and dhcp might fail). So you might need to set your local clients IP. Take note of the configuration it has and the steps to set it manually.

The rest all sounds right.

Your router’s IP can be anything. Choose any internal IP address on your subnet.

You can have 2 routers on the same subnet just make sure you disable DHCP on the new one while you perform the setup of everything else.
Then when you want to switch over, toggle on dhcp on the new router and replace the cables and you should be fine. You’ll know it’s working when you plug into it and get a default route of the new router.

Depends upon what you’re using it for as always. X5650 has a rating of 5716 and has a TDP of 95W.

You have two, so you pull up-to 190W @ 100% CPU.

Depending on your workload these types of CPUs may be more inefficient than the i5. because they have less single thread performance. You didn’t specify which i5 gen your CPU was.

You can get some cheap ddr3 eec ram off eBay to double it if you want but 24 is a nice amount for apps and zfs cache (if you go that way)

Double nic is good for exactly your type of setup. Iot devices on a separate vlan. (Your video cameras)

If it has more space HDD space or is better specs than your i5 and you don’t mind taking the extra power hit & possibly heat/sound. Then it will be a great nas

Bazarr is failing? It shouldn’t be unless it needs better sub sources, or they are not available (yet?)

You can also do whisper integration in bazarr! https://wiki.bazarr.media/Additional-Configuration/Whisper-Provider/

I keep getting side tracked and not responding.

Get a consumer card with lots of vram if you are doing ML. That is about your only requirement.

Anything second hand could be worth the money in the end. But I would spend some extra to get a newer card so you can use bigger models rather than getting a 300$ older card.

Edit: a Radeon 7600 has 8G of ram US$280. Plenty of space for those ML.

Hahaha. I was referencing the Lemmy communities listed on https://browse.feddit.de. looks like ours is the only one with content ☺️

Hmm, I was thinking if they had 3x2NVMe drives, then they could have a total read/write bandwidth of 900MB/s (assuming a 300MB/s throughput, and assuming the 3 different raids/pools each are completely independent).

Where as if they make it one ZFS pool, it would be 300MB/s because all 3 “apps”, would be accessing the same “pool”.

Though, this may only be relevant to HDDs not NVMe’s as I havn’t had the privilege to have NVMe’s in a zfs/raid/etc.

Technically, you could get worse throughput because it would act as “one drive” rather than 3 drives.
But if you know that your writes are inconsistent and all 3 are not writing at the same time, I think it could be fine.

I’m a z2 when it comes to pools (2 parity drives) because I’m scared of losing the data on a rebuild if 1 dies, so even with 6 drives for me, I would only have +1 drive worth of extra space in your case.

I would do it if I need space, and I didn’t have any extra slots available for expansion

We are :P

Tiff wrote a post here on self hosting it: https://reddthat.com/post/19103

Also nearly everyone is using docker for Lemmy and as long as unraid lets you run docker commands you should be fine.

Docker compose is (now) part of docker. It’s a way to describe all the containers you want, and then docker goes and does it. You should 100% learn docker compose, and Lemmy already has a compose file in their repo. So you should be able to copy paste and say docker compose up -d

Well, there are only 2 unraid communities so far including this one. So I believe!