Well TIL!!
neardeaf
joined 2 years ago
Honestly no. Remember Spectre & Meltdown vulnerabilities back in 2018? Yeah that security bug that only affected Intel CPUs until it was patched seriously told consumers and enterprise customers to “please turn off hyperthreading” to prevent exposure. Fucking LOL. Voluntarily cut my CPU performance in half!? Based on a theoretical exploit that was only found in a very specific and controlled environment before everyone started FREAKING out?
You do realize the vast majority of people would need you to explain what a “rented host” is, then they still wouldn’t comprehend it.
I’d love to read more about this, do you have a reference??
Same, I have it proudly sitting on my shelf above my homelab :(
You’re very welcome! Feed free to reach out if you need any more help :)
The main reason why I mentioned a NUC is it gets them familiar with distributed roles for each system, but you're right, I'd definitely go pure whitebox & setup unRAID that has a nice GUI for Docker for newbies to understand.
No worries, happy to help!
Main benefit is modularity, where you can use each system for a different use case that it's more suited for. Also if one system goes down/has issues, it doesn't necessarily make the entire thing unusable, just degraded. This also means you can upgrade different parts when necessary.
NUC = Runs services, no data (other than application data) is stored here, so if it dies, your data is still safe on the NAS.
NAS = Stores media/personal data. If it dies (dear god please have a 3-2-1 backup in place), the only services affected are ones that rely on the data being accessible from the NAS. This seems like a big drawback, but at least you ONLY have to fix the NAS and not have to recreate all the service configs.
If you're using proper Docker practices (defining all of your services in docker compose), then even rebuilding your NUC isn't that much of a headache. DOCUMENT YOUR JOURNEY AND MISTAKES!
Yes, NAS devices are expensive, but in order to have one that can TRULY be a good all in one data storage AND Plex server, you'd really break the bank to get one that runs an Intel CPU, since most NAS devices run a low powered ARM chip, or a very under powered Intel CPU.
The most cost effective way to do this when first starting out is to scrap, scavenge and buy used/old equipment. Chasing after the newest hardware for this stuff is tempting, and you'll eventually get there, but you gotta walk before you swim.
Seriously, ebay, pawn shops, facebook marketplace (yes, yuck, but I've gotten killer deals here) and friends/relatives getting rid of old "useless" computers will be their trash, your treasure.
I need my coffee to process this lol
Yes absolutely. Last time I checked, the Nvidia Shield is the only Plex client that can direct play any video/audio codec without causing Plex to transcode the media. You can watch media directly on Plex (as a client) off the NUC but I’ve never done it before. I’ve always had a server/client setup separately because all my server equipment is in the office.
Direct Playing/Direct Streaming is what you want to achieve most of the time if you can. The next best Plex client is the AppleTV, which I personally have myself and it’s so much better than my old Roku devices. Roku has kinda gone downhill quality wise for me.
Ugh man that Social Network Trent Reznor score is sooo gooood. I love “Arrival”’s score too
I don’t go too over the top like this but I make my wife her lunch everyday before she goes to work because I WFH and don’t have to immediately be on my computer before she leaves