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  1. I've updated the topic to not mislead people and made it shorter.
  2. Hi everyone, TLDR: I just want to warn all homelab enthusiasts that APUs like the 5600G or 5700G, and apparently also the newer 8000G series can have issues with some PCIe cards, when paired with some motherboards. In my case, with a 5700G + B550 + E10M20-T1 (Synology), the card is not detected at all. I expect the same with the QM2 cards from QNAP with an integrated NIC. When buying the Cezanne 5700G, and using a B550 motherboard, I saw that PCIe was going down from PCIe 4.0 to PCIe 3.0. What I didn't know is that the bifurcation options also go from x8/x8 x8/x4/x4 x4/x4/x4/x4 to x8/x8 x8/x4/x4 This apparently breaks compatibility with cards like the E10M20-T1. Beware ! Maybe it is not linked at all, but the coincidence is too big. It's sad, because this config makes for an excellent Ryzen SFF homelab machine with very fast NVMe storage, avoiding IPMI powered server MB by having an APU with a graphics output. It certainly helps with the budget, as server grade stuff is expensive. For now, I'm using a 5900X without graphics, because luckily AM4 boards can boot without a graphics card installed.
  3. TLDR : I have an unRAID server from which I want to remove everything that is not Plex related. A new server will host that. I thought that SCALE+Truecharts repo would mimick unRAID's community apps but with the power of ZFS and SCALE's own kubernetes, but it seems it's not really like that. Should I switch to Proxmox + ZFS + VMs hosting kubernetes or dockers ? Any thoughts ? END TLDR I have an unRAID server that does everything (plex + private cloud + docker host + ...). I had tried FreeNAS (now TrueNAS core) but preferred the ease of use of unRAID + community apps. I am now in the process of splitting my setup into 3 physical servers/NAS : Plex server : unRAID, big storage, no ZFS, fake unRAID raid, standard HDD speed ok. Data is not so critical, the unRAID mentality is perfect for that. Small mainstream NAS : hosts all the non critical sonarr + radarr + prowlarr + ... as a docker-compose. Allows 24/7 services to destroy only the same 2 old HDDs. All data can be lost here. Got the NAS for real cheap from old job. Could be the target for some backups in the future in a 3rd dedicated HDD. The soon to be new toy : a server with fast storage, lots of memory, modern CPU.... Can host important data, cloud service (nextcloud & Cie), or really any service I want to run in a "professional spirit". That means backups, snapshots, high availability and what not. For 3., I thought that TrueNAS Scale would be perfect : ZFS + loads of RAM Snapshots Apps now running not as jails but as modern kubernetes docker pods ! The dream, right ? Long story short, I though that SCALE+Truecharts would be the equivalent of unRAID's community apps but for SCALE, but it seems it's not exactly that (and they are migrating everything right now, a nightmare if you would have critical services up and running). Also, the welcome on their Discord was as cold as winter itself... I wanted to do something with an app they don't officially provide and basically was told to do my own server, not SCALE. Would it be better to have ZFS through Proxmox, and host your own docker containers / kubernetes cluster inside VMs ? Any good guides ? Pro : all the power of CLI and following most of the doc you find online Con : you loose the ease of use of a nice GUI, which is nice when you are doing basic stuff, which is 90% of the time EDIT : I am not currently a kubernetes expert, but I have the IT knowledge to follow any CLI guide on that subject, or read any doc about k8s, k3s, helm charts, ...
  4. By GSync mode, I mean Fullscreen <-> Windowed Fullscreen. The second mode used to be Fullscreen AND Windowed, so... I'm asking because: 1. The result doesn't appear on the first page of Google, so I guess not many people are asking (or even here with the search). 2. It can happen that a game doesn't support Fullscreen but exiting the game would cause you to wait 30 minutes - 2 hours to log back in (hi Blizzard potato servers)
  5. I think my go-to setup would be a 3 server setup. The same idea as jaslion but with a twist. A media server with the minimum specs possible to not explode when transcoding must happen. If money is available, might use a P2000 GPU for that. The server is focused on having high TB storage. May use unRAID since hosted media is not critical and it allows to still have the data on the other HDDs in case of a failure. A smaller more powerful server with faster storage, that is suited for a wide range of docker/VMs. Most don't require as many GB/TB as a media server, so a good thing since NVMe is more expensive than HDDs. In case you end up with 1TB of baby videos on the Nextcloud docker,/VM you can always offload that on the media server A very low powered server with only basic storage for any 24/7 non "critical" services that may cause the server 2. to wear down the storage quickly for nothing. This could be any service that involves sharing data almost 24/7 (p2p, decentralized nodes, ...)
  6. So this one doesn't serve any data to the VM one ? It only hosts like basic files/pictures/videos ?
  7. Playing devil's advocate here: when your professionally treated setup only hosts services than run for 1 or 2 users, it becomes tempting to start aggregating everything into one server. Maybe the issue comes from here. You may not want a dedicated server for GIT and a dedicated server for the GIT PostgreSQL DB (each optimized for the usage), since 3 users would login 3x per month working on ~10 projects maximum (example). But then again someone with money to throw in his/her homelab could do it. I guess it comes down to budget and time.
  8. Hi, I wanted to have your opinion in a homelab context. Imagine you have a few services you want to run, let's say media oriented services (plex, jellyfin, sonarr, torrent, ...), IT oriented (proxy, git, cloud, vpn, ...) and some others. Let's say it's not just one Synology with a few Word documents and a few Plex movies (simple case). What would your strategy be ? I don't think there is a good answer btw : 1 "LTT sized" server to rule them all You just build a bonkers server with loads of drives, loads of CPU cores and decide on the go where to allocate all that storage + processing power. I can imagine that server running proxmox or linux directly. 1 storage focused NAS + cluster of servers/NAS around You build something like a storage oriented NAS then share the data where needed to other lighter/smaller servers : media, IT stuff, .... The various servers can be smaller, less power hungry and less expensive. 1 server per purpose with its local storage Each server is a NAS with its own storage. A media server would have big capacity HDDs, the one with IT services may have fast NVMe drives and they don't share storage. One other NAS could be dedicated for backups. Let me know what is your strategy to organize your homelab !
  9. Is it any good ? Can we expect Elgato to not have a monopoly anymore? I've seen good and bad reviews. I guess that users actually using it is better for feedback. Btw, I called it 6 years ago (same for Elgato Steam Deck+), but it took streaming to become mainstream so that they would release devices where you can control multiple audio levels without using an old-school mixing table.
  10. Thanks everyone for taking the time to answer. Yeah, I had in mind that eARC > ARC > optical, if you look at the bandwidth available. Maybe I forgot a crucial point in my explanation: I already have a cheap entry level soundbar, so upgrading is only valid to get more audio channels & "fake" Dolby Atmos. So, if I don't have eARC and use ARC instead of passing video through the soundbar, will the downgrade to lossy codecs defeat the whole point of upgrading? I'm not an audiophile. The soundbar is aimed at movies, not music. I feel like if I plug the SHIELD to the soundbar and passthrough video to the TV, it would work great, and I don't mind a few more millisec if playing AAA type games (non competitive). Also the gaming part wouldn't be affected that much by ARC vs eARC, so I could plug the SHIELD to a eARC soundbar directly but plug the rest to the TV that would use then ARC for gaming, which is fine for regular "gaming" DD5.1.
  11. As the title suggests, this means plugging the TV with the soundbar without using eARC, which means that the sounbar receives most of the inputs and must perform video passthrough properly (especially 4K HDR). Any red flags on doing that ? Added latency for gaming ? (something breaking couch gaming, not competitive gaming) Any issues with Plex and 4K HDR (nvidia shield or similar) ? Also bonus questions for the enthusiasts around here: LG vs SONY vs SAMSUNG high end sound bars? The Sony HT-A9 is really interesting, but I don't plan on buying a Sony TV just to get back the center channel. Any thoughts on that ? Thanks for your time !
  12. Soooo, you are telling me that I had proper 10gbps internet at home before LTT got proper 10gbps for work (11:30 in the video) ? mhhhhhhhh
  13. Thank god content creators like Linus are finally starting to complain about the state of TDPs of modern chips... Call me a boomer, but I don't want more than 100-150W and on my CPU and 200-250W on my GPU. 250W for GPUs used to be only for high end Ti cards.... Also, if a card goes from 200W to 300W and is 1.5x faster, I don't call it a better card. I just call it a factory super-overclocked card... 400W is already a lot of heat (and energy) and with heat waves becoming more and more common in the summer, I don't want a 800W tower heating an already super hot room... Yeah sure AC exists, but I think we know deep down it's not the best solution (I won't go down that rabbit hole in an online forum...). Not convinced ? LTT is making videos about putting your PC in a grow tent, so... Yeah we are there already
  14. Pro Tip : if you game a lot with a powerful rig, especially now with 3080s+ TDP, when choosing you first apartment, avoid small studios that have big sliding glass windows directly pointed towards ~South, it is gonna be hell, especially with the heat of the computer (having outside blinds helps a bit reflecting the sun but then you really are the cliché of a nerd living in the dark).
  15. Though I would still be interested to have any explanation about this ! Did Turbo Boost change THAT much while I was "not watching" ?
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