So I moved almost all services from my custom built
#TrueNAS to the
#Hetzner dedicated server. Now it’s just a TrueNAS with Plex and *arr stack.
And I started to think it is too powerful for its current tasks with Core i5-13400 10-cores CPU.
First I thought I’ll move media server stuff to my
#Synology DS423, which I’m not using currently. Then I suddenly realized that with this current CPU I was not having any issues playing 4K HDR movies, no matter how big was the source file. But with Plex on DS423 I had those issues.
So I started to think about a CPU with less amount of cores. And you know what? My Core i5-13400 has base power at 65 watts. And Core i3-13100 with 4 cores instead of 10, for example, has base power at 60 watts. So what’s the point?
I’ll leave my
#Plex server as is for now. I recently added a friend to the server and it handles two 4K movies (one with transcoding) simultaneously just fine. I’m proud of it ))
#homelab #mediaserver #diy #nas #synologynas #IntelCorei5 #overpowered #overkill