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Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy (www.howtogeek.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

Drivers? Are you running it on Windows? On Linux I just plugged it in and it worked, Jellyfin transparently started transcoding the additional codecs.

It fixed my issue with tone mapping, before this HDR files on my not-so-old TV showed the wrong colors.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I've not desktop environment on the NAS, it was plug and play in terminal. I did get an error about HSW/BDW HD-Audio HDMI/DP requiring binding with a gfx driver - but I've not yet even bothered to google it.

    I read somewhere the sparkle elf I have just ramps the fan to 100% at all times with the Linux driver and has no option to edit fan curve under Linux (suggested fix was install a windows VM, set the curve there and the card will remember, but after rebuilding the NAS and fixing a couple of minor issues to get it all working I couldn't face installing windows, so just left it as is until I have the time lol).

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    The host is running Proxmox, so I guess their kernel just works with it.

    It does run the fan way more than I'd like, but its noise is drowned out by the original AMD cooler on the CPU anyway, but thanks for the info, I may look into it... But I guess I'd have to set up GPU pass-through on a VM just for that.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Yeah, I can't say I've really noticed the fan noise enough to bother me yet, but wasn't sure if that's because I'm running some generic driver or others were just more sensitive to it than me. Jellyfin is at least fourth on the list of maintenance/upgrade tasks at the minute, as long as I can display the terminal at the minute I'm happy enough.

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