If you’re hosting plex or jellyfin I’d recommend an old Intel processor with quicksync. I paid like 200 for my pc on ebay gutted it and put it in a bigger case for more hard drives. Runs 4k videos like a champ with no GPU installed.

Good news is that it’s slated to go stable some time this year iirc.

Probably one of the higher end models?

To be honest, I’ll be forever dubious of new products that seem to be in every other YouTube video. I returned this one after a day or two of troubleshooting. It also didn’t support openwrt if I recall correctly.

Thanks, this has been added to unraids community app store BTW so hopefully you get a good uptick in users from there.

I’d stay away from that particular one. We ui was slow af and whenever wireguard connected it crawled to a stop.

Whatever my installation CD had as default 😂. I’m guessing ext4?

Slay the spire is like 8 bucks and disco elsyium is like 4 but that’s about it.

Immich but it has a lot of breaking changes, good news is that going stable is on their road map for this year. They also joined FUTO.

As an alternative, Unraid. While it’s paid, it strips away a lot of the hassle you mentioned in your post. Has a built in shop where you just click, set up ports/shares and docker containers just spin up for you.

While I’m not a huge fan of their recent subscription model change, I do love their OS (I got I’m still grandfathered into the pre-existing perpetual license.

I wonder if something like hoarder might suit your needs and you can filter purchased based on tags

For 1k you can build a beast.

Just throwing out an option if you aren’t aware, gohardrives on ebay and on their site sell used Hdds. 10Tb for $80. The catch is they’ve been used in data centers for 5 years. The company will guarantee the drives for an addition 5 years and it could save you a lot of money depending on how much you want to risk it. I went with 3, one being a parity drive in case other goes bad.