I’m moderately tech savvy, a little experience with most OS and comfortable with hardware. I’ve got some basic things working in Docker. I want to start self hosting my photo backup, Bitwarden, Jellyfish, Sonarr and Radarr, Pi hole, Home Assistant and replace Dropbox. But the more I dive into the hardware and setup the more muddled I’m finding myself.
I’m very concerned about power draw so the lower the consumption the better. I do want some parity, though I’m willing to I introduce that once it’s set up. I’m not particularly concerned with transcoding but I guess it’d be a nice bonus.
Is a QNAP alone valid? Or perhaps I’m better off with a Pi and my huge GDrive while I learn? Or a NUC with better transcoding capability? I want to access my data internally, stream content to a Chromecast with Google TV.
My instinct is both a NUC and a separate NAS but I’e love it if anyone has some insight.
Thanks!
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. If that device goes down, nothing will work. It’s better to have more smaller devices that serve fewer purposes, or have two big devices that serve redundant services.
I would take small steps. Get a nuc or pi and put some services on it. Test drive it. Get another device when needed.
Don’t jump straight into to deep end. Take it step by step.
Cool that’ll mitigate the learning curve too, thank you.