I plan on building my first home server primarily to function as a NAS. I’d love to video edit from it. Ultimately, I may stream home videos from it and may look at utilizing it in other ways as I learn to a home servers capabilities.

I’ve had the i3-12100 recommended a number of times. However, for the sake of power efficiency and upfront cost, however, I’ve been looking at i3-7100T. Would this be good enough for the needs I’ve outlined? I understand it would be significantly less powerful, but I want honest thoughts on whether it’d be sufficient for a video editing NAS?

  • Cyberz0id@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    My current server is a i3-10100 with jellyfin, truenas and a docker VM with 45 containers running for the last 4ish years.

    Beyond initial booting or starting a docker stack, the CPU load is low. However if I’m pushing lots of data at gig speed to the nas, the CPU can hover at 80% or more. (Encrypted dataset)

    If you’re buying new, i’d go with an i5 at least. If you’re only going to have a few services an i3 will work.

    That said… I’ve outgrown it and currently waiting on its replacement server to show up.