Currently running all my docker compose containers on my gaming PC. 15 containers in total. Mostly *arr stack, plex, immich, home assistant, actual budget and jellyfin. Running on Mint.

Want to get these onto a dedicated pc. I have a mini with a I5 10-600, 32GB ram. I’ve played with it a little with jellyfin, on Debian and don’t think I was able to get quick sync enabled with my testing, and one transcode pretty much maxed out the CPU usage. To use this PC, I’d need to buy a 4 bay USB HDD enclosure.

So, basically I’m just wondering before I spend money and time if the hardware is even capable enough for my usage. 3 concurrent streams is probably the most it’d ever see, ideally with no more than 2 transcodes. Immich, home assistant etc are all pretty new and just in testing for now, but would only have 2 users total. Mostly using Plex, jellyfin is also in testing so it’ll be ready if plex enshitifies too much.

  • @mrnngglry@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4•9 hours ago

    If you’re going to run the drives as individual drives in the enclosure, you should be fine but if you set them up as a RAID array, USB won’t work well. The connection is too unreliable and will cause issues. I’ve tried with a 10-bay USB-C enclosure using unRAID, Fedora, and Debian. I tried multiple cables. It just kept dropping the connection during large transfers.

    • ItsamelemmyOPEnglish
      1•7 hours ago

      Good to know. Storage space is expensive though and anything that’s using the big drives can be downloaded again if needed. So plan was to use online backup for the stuff I can’t lose like immich photos, actual budget etc and if a media drive crashes, I’ll just redownload.