Outgrown my Synology NAS, time for a proper dedicated machine (sh.itjust.works)

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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.

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[-] [email protected] 35 points 5 days ago

Depending on how many bays your Synology is, you might be best off getting a nuc or a mini pc for compute and using your synology just for storage.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

That's the route I took too. NAS for storage and simple docker containers, Minipc for compute/GPU.

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