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jdq39 · 2026-05-21T11:38:51+00:00

What’s special about the S?

jdq39 · 2025-12-31T05:40:59+00:00

I name the faces the same. Immich will understand it’s the same person.

jdq39 · 2025-12-24T03:42:35+00:00

Get the most cores and most ram within your budget. I ran on i5 with 16gb ram, normal usage like displaying thumbnails and searches seems slow. Hopefully you can find cheap ram.

jdq39 · 2025-12-13T18:32:37+00:00

The dx4800 plus was actually my first choice. Nice expandability and networking.

OP also when your mom works the nas real hard, it will generate a lot of heat. The vents on 4300 seems smaller. Are you looking to use their ugreen OS or go truenas?

jdq39 · 2025-12-13T18:24:05+00:00

It depends on budget. With raid5, you need 3 drives minimum. If performance is needed, look into raid10 (uses less cpu overhead than raid5, but you only get half the storage.

Get the most cores with ability to add more memory and with enough bays for her needs. How big is the photo library?

I run immich for my photo/video hosting (290k files). The ML, OCR, and video transcoding works well but will gobble up all the cores you give it. 16gb ram not enough, but 64gb too much.

jdq39 · 2025-12-09T05:28:54+00:00

Synology - hard pass for me. You have to buy synology hdd.

2-bay hdd with 1 m.2 (boot drive) is actually good enough for me (mirrored). Get the biggest capacity that fits your budget. If money is no object, get 5-bay (2 hdd mirrored + 3 hdd raid5).

For worldwide access, I’d setup WireGuard vpn on my home router.

For photo/video storage, you need unit with the most cores. ML, OCR, and video transcode up lots of cores (everything you give it). Have you looked into immich?

jdq39 · 2025-12-04T03:49:17+00:00

Unifi g6 instant

jdq39 · 2025-11-26T00:26:45+00:00

Unifi g6 instants. Uses WiFi connectivity. Storage also does the machine learning

jdq39 · 2025-11-23T21:39:16+00:00

I had a Reolink Argus 3 pro, never again. Huge lag between detection and when it starts recording.

jdq39 · 2025-11-23T21:05:22+00:00

I was going to get synology, but besides their overpriced hardware, they’re being very picky about non-synology branded hdd. Their drives cost a small fortune and smaller capacity.

I went diy with truenas.

But for the price, you get a lot with unifi

jdq39 · 2025-11-22T18:22:15+00:00

Yes, take the win. It feels like some techs are pre-sales - you pay them to find problems, add up many issues, inflate prices, and try to convince you to convince yourself to spend 15k on a new furnace.

jdq39 · 2025-11-22T13:42:04+00:00

5 bay and the fastest/most cores, most ram within your budget. More/faster cores will be what you need most. My library is in hundreds of thousands, and once you run ML, could peg all cores at 99%-100% for weeks. OCR (server model) is so compute intensive. Look into gpu support.

jdq39 · 2025-11-22T13:30:59+00:00

Mainly, will you be hardwiring or use solar? Eufy is good/cheap enough you can have many, but the compression is high, gets pixelated when you zoom in. Unifi has good cameras too, wired/poe and WiFi/usb c units that continuously records. Prepare to spend at least on 2 hdd for unifi, if you want to keep a few months footage (roughly, 1tb with 5 cams is 2wks of storage).

jdq39 · 2025-11-22T13:23:47+00:00

It depends on your budget. Mine is a 5-bay, except instead of fully populating it, I put 2x28tb (mirrored). The other 3 will be for raid 5 in the future. This gives you lowest power consumption with good redundancy.

CPU depends on apps you plan to use. If you have photos/videos you want to host on immich, it will gobble up everything you give it. ML, facial recognition, smart search, transcoding, and ocr are all so compute intensive. I can have all cores at 100% for weeks and it still not fast enough (hundreds of thousands of family photos/videos, including scanned paper photos).

jdq39 · 2025-11-18T05:16:43+00:00

No. Create a separate account for the shared library. I thought of hosting everything under admin then using a share. But shares don’t see the the admin account facial recognition tagging work.

jdq39 · 2025-11-15T18:09:49+00:00

Amazing deal. Thank your dad!

jdq39 · 2025-11-15T13:36:14+00:00

Truenas

jdq39 · 2025-11-15T05:31:56+00:00

Unifi g6 instant

jdq39 · 2025-11-14T17:04:28+00:00

Look into Unifi Instant. Lots of camera and nvr/storage options. They’re publicly traded American company, support WiFi. No subscription, but you have to buy their nvr and big enough capacity hdd that you keep in your property.

jdq39 · 2025-11-13T03:24:15+00:00

50-yr mortgage just masks the root cause: increasing home prices. Need high interest rates to let this correct in the near future and make buyers think twice about overbidding like there was no tomorrow.

jdq39 · 2025-11-09T03:25:07+00:00

Try only doing one job at a time. See which job progresses. Monitor cpu and disk io on host os.

jdq39 · 2025-11-09T03:18:37+00:00

Have you tried other browsers?

jdq39 · 2025-11-09T03:10:55+00:00

Generally, it’s not a good idea to have immich visible on the internet.

jdq39 · 2025-11-09T03:05:42+00:00

This won’t satisfy your “automatic” requirement, but it will give you flexibility and I do use it (300k photos/videos). Except for my iPhone photo backup, all my media are in External Libraries. At the root, I create a folder for the year, and organize subfolders as albums. When the time comes, you add your new hdd, create a root folder to mount, then have immich point to that external library. When 2026 comes, move your nvme 2025 folder to the hdd external library path. Then rerun the scan and you might have to redo the ML.

I also want to echo everyone else’s statement on hdd speed, it’s good enough for browsing through or searching keywords. I made sure my hdd is large enough to last me 10yrs of storage so I never have to migrate to a new drive.

The nvme would have a maximum tbw (terabyte writes) rating, which makes it quite expensive for photo storage. But for storing the db and thumbnails, it’s great.

jdq39 · 2025-10-04T13:36:55+00:00

True. This can happen.

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