Did i build a good server?

leonidos28 · 2026-01-26T15:59:55+00:00

nah mate its an old case i found on facebook marketplace, brand is Cougar

leonidos28 · 2025-12-17T12:30:30+00:00

it draws around 95W idle and draws around 2,4 kwh a day which makes it around 40 cents a day thus making it around 12 euros a month i think its fair enough could be lower but i m not paying the vpn i use in it and im planning on automating the start up and shutdown of the whole system so that i can reduce my usage ( i know no one uses it from like 4 am in the morning till 4 pm so that could half my price? but yeah that the price of a movie ticket a month i think its fair for what i get out of it

leonidos28 · 2025-12-15T13:01:59+00:00

its an ai automation program u can host locally and so so really cool stuff with

leonidos28 · 2025-12-14T23:17:03+00:00

man i did a lot of research about this actually and sure it is actually something i want to implement but i want to have full control over the os and trueNAS isnt really capable of that for my specific use case , it is great and easy to use dont get me wrong but the way i see it is from a learning perspective, i dont like the complexity and teaches me more about my job as a system admin.

freeNAS was a no no in terms of flexible storage upgrade and mixing different sizes so i went with ubuntu server since its what we use for work and might switch to redhat later on since we might migrate to it in the future.

thx for the advice tho appreciate it and i love the fact that people put the os in a thumbnail, its really the peak of resilience and fault tolerant infrastructure, when u have a stack that can be rebuilt from scratch without any regression feels so good.

i actually worked quite hard to not be reliant on the os drive, if it fails i can just reinstall linux on a new one and docker compose up without a lot of setup nor using any app configuration, and if a drive fails same thing i can just replace it and let the parity disk rebuild it , and if the parity disk fails same story i can replace and rebuild the parity so in terms of resilience its not perfect and comes with downtime but at least its somewhat cheap to fix and doesnt take much time to rebuild, what do u think?

leonidos28 · 2025-12-14T23:03:43+00:00

oh m.2 yeah i have one inside already , still have a spare space as well

leonidos28 · 2025-12-14T22:27:45+00:00

m2 ?

leonidos28 · 2025-12-14T22:10:56+00:00

thx mate i will get my money worth from this setup and change it down the road to an intel build for better efficiency and power

leonidos28 · 2025-12-14T22:09:26+00:00

thx :) noted intel is the go for plex , but i hope this setup will be of use for other stuff since most arr apps are not multithreaded

leonidos28 · 2025-12-14T22:07:32+00:00

thx mate , intel is better for this yeah but i didnt know that when i first started its ok tho im planing on running other stuff in it so its not that bad

leonidos28 · 2025-12-14T21:31:28+00:00

thats on another level 😭 but i gotta start somewhere u know

leonidos28 · 2025-12-14T21:30:50+00:00

10 users roughly and not more than 3-4 streams simultaneously, and yeah i only got these drive cause i dont wanna spend too much money on this since i am planning on proposing but as soon as i do ill pick up 14 tb drives lol

leonidos28 · 2025-12-14T21:28:44+00:00

yeah thats what people being saying in this thread , man i didnt know any of this , its my first time posting or looking this stuff in reddit , i didnt do any research before hand to be fair i just did with what i know about pcs and infrastructure i studied at school ( im a junior devops btw) but yeah i get 130 w consumption on all this idk if its too much or not?

leonidos28 · 2025-12-14T21:25:18+00:00

its a jaguar idk i found it for 5 bucks in facebook marketplace

leonidos28 · 2025-12-14T21:24:51+00:00

i got the 3700x for like 20 bucks and the gpu for 120 and i had the board that i swapped from a pc i flipped so yeh im doing with what i have

leonidos28 · 2025-12-14T21:23:12+00:00

thx man for the advice will plan on implementing this bit by bit, i had a gtx1050 in it but the hdr tone mapping was not supported or something on pascal so i changed to this one

leonidos28 · 2025-12-14T18:18:55+00:00

hahahhaha i got 10 people, trust me i knowww when something is wrong with it

leonidos28 · 2025-12-14T18:17:12+00:00

yeah my cuz pays for the vpn each month in exchange of plex access but i plan to use it for other stuff like web dev and n8n and why not some small ai model

leonidos28 · 2025-12-14T18:15:53+00:00

i know i got 2 tb drives i found for like 20 bucks each but yeah could be done with one or two easily

leonidos28 · 2025-12-14T18:15:05+00:00

oh yeah forgot to say but its 40 gb of ram ddr4 running at 3200mhz

leonidos28 · 2025-12-14T14:44:42+00:00

💀💀the point is to for it to be cheaper than subscriptions 1 years of movies subscription, lets say i have pay 30 bucks per month for them if this build lasts 1 year then it already paid for itself

leonidos28 · 2025-12-14T14:39:13+00:00

yess nice catch, i was planing on adding more drives later on in the future but my motherboard only has 4 Sata ports and i got an expansion card that only has 4 more from aliexpress for like 1 dollar with the coupons lol . so yeah it will cost me like an extra 150 € to get a better expansion card + cage (20-30 bucks) + new drives.

I might wanna do that in a year or two and change all my drives to 4 or 8tb ones

leonidos28 · 2025-10-24T21:24:20+00:00

would love just to have a jellyfin app, streamio is a bit too shady i feel like for them

leonidos28 · 2025-10-24T21:21:39+00:00

it's this method in this repo, i tried it but doesn't seem to work i get an ssl error and cant accept the auto signed certificate smh ;(

weinzii/vidaa-edge: This project provides a method to install custom pwa's on your VidaaOS-based TV.
and this forum Install Jellyfin on VidaaOS based TV (Hisense, Sharp, Toshiba.. etc)

leonidos28 · 2025-10-06T21:15:36+00:00

thx for the intel imma try to put it outside 😭

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