I agree on this comment. I run a couple of these and they work great. If you want to go even cheaper I have setup my sibling with this one running proxmox with a Plex and WireGuard lxc and an HAOS vm. It will hw transcode just fine as long as you are the only user.
Love proxmox. Been using it for nearly a decade and while it has its pain points it has been rock solid for me for the past 4 years.
It has been a bit over 3 weeks and everything has been really smooth. I forgot to mention last time but I got the R86S-N with the N305. This was due to research showing that the N100 would not be able to hold 5gbits throughput and I wanted to have some wiggle room in case I upped the number of firewall rules.
Getting consistent 5.5gbits down, 5.6gbits up on speed tests. Steam download peaks at 213MiB/s and holds around 190MiB/s(but this could be the max I can get from steam🤷).
No issues with the R86S-N, no random reboots or forced reboots. Opnsense install was quick and didn’t cause issues.
Ended up buying this, arrived this week, and have it all setup. Was pretty simple to get it configured. Now just need to wait another week for google fiber to be installed.
I have the same SSD thought, except every time they come down HDD prices also go down.
Personally I don’t think I will be getting anything over 5gb fiber so as long as it can do 10gb combined then it should be okay.
I think I like this option the best. I’ve got a month before I get back home and have the fiber installed and the shipping from Ali express lines up.
Let’s be real here, for a gas station Casey’s has damn good pizza.
That was my first thought, get a few of them and create yourself a scootermox cluster 😂
+1 this. I went further and have a 3 node proxmox cluster with a mix of beelink and minisforum pcs. If I find that I need more cpu power I can add another node to the cluster and drop the weakest link and proxmox handles moving all the vms/lxcs
At $50 a month using cloud services you could buy a very beefy mini pc but that also means you have to manage it. I’d say that it took about a month of setting up everything to get to a point where I only log into proxmox ~1-2 times a month.
Thank you for the info. I set my instance up yesterday as well and my goal today was to do this.
Does that still allow other Plex users the ability to play remotely without having to use Plex relay?