jerkrl 4 Posted 1 hour ago Posted 1 hour ago Hi there and thanks for any help in my search. I'm looking to expand the compute power in my setup. Currently I'm running an Synology DS720+ for file storage, backups etc. Lately that has evolved in also deploying some dockers: Immich, Joplin, Emby and the “arr - stack”. The DS720+ can handle that quite easily, except for transcoding more than 1 stream at the time. And that's where my search originates. I expect to deploy more services (like Headscale, Nginx, maybe Adguard) in the next year, yet I don't expect those to be very compute heavy. At the moment, the main reason to look for more compute power is to be able to transcode 3-5 streams simultaneously. I intend to keep my storage on my Synology, and I'm looking to have a separate homelab server for the mentioned services. Also, I intend to buy a solution for the next 3-4 years of use. I will run a Linux distro, maybe on proxmox. Looking at 2nd hand sales, I'm considering two options: SFF/ mini PC or a laptop with dedicated GPU These two are for sale right now in my area: - Beelink SEi13 Pro mini-pc Intel Core i9-13900HK (14 cores, 5,4 GHz), 32 GB LPDDR5, 1 TB NVMe SSD - Lenovo Legion 5 AMD Ryzen 7 5800H, NVIDIA RTX 3070 (8GB), 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD, 16” QHD+ (2560×1600) 165Hz screen The laptop has a screen and battery (so sort of a UPS) and the main reason to consider: dedicated GPU. The Beelink sips power and has 32GB ram already installed. I expect the Lenovo to initially cost about €50-100 more than the Beelink. Also, I expect to Beelink to have lower power cost of about €20/yr Is this overkill for 3-5 simultaneous transcodes? What would you do/recommend?
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