If anyone owns this device, what’s the maximum amount of storage I can insert into the 2.5" SATA bay? I keep looking online, but I can’t find it.
If anyone owns this device, what’s the maximum amount of storage I can insert into the 2.5" SATA bay? I keep looking online, but I can’t find it.
My home server simply serves files to the local network so I don’t have experience in what I’m about to say, but I know Plex people often like to have a GPU for transcoding content to a format more suited to streaming after they download it.
My view is that you need a GPU somewhere or the system won’t boot, but if you need actual GPU compute then integrated graphics just won’t cut it, quick sync or not. I recommend having an integrated GPU in general as they’re usually not that much more expensive and don’t use a PCIe slot, and of course that’s one less part than can fail.
If you’re hosting for yourself only I don’t think you need an external GPU at all unless you want to do machine learning tasks.
My main use case is sharing with friends and family, so honestly I might just go for the G4. I don’t plan to use Plex tho, Jellyfin is what I’m going with. Gonna try to go the exclusively FOSS route if I can. Once again thank you for all the help.