AOOSTAR WTR PRO 4 Bay NAS (N150, 4x 3.5", 1x NVMe, 2x2.5G, HDMI/DP/USB-C) US$260.94 (~A$402) Delivered @ China Box AliExpress

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gizmomelb on 13/06/2025 - 11:36 aliexpress.com (3310 clicks)
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nice N150 based mini pc / NAS with 4x 3.5" SATA bays, 2x 2.5GBe NICs, 0GB RAM (add your own DDR4 (much cheaper to buy locally than select 16GB from this vendor, and drives of course).

Perfect for a home NAS - use UnRAID, TrueNAs, Synology (use auxxxilium to install DSM 7.2), whatever you want - could also be used as a desktop for daily email, web browsing, youtube and torrenting.

Yes this can easily run Home Assistant, yes this can easily handle OPNsense and yes it will easily handle video transcoding in Jellyfin (and probably Plex, I don't use Plex so don't know) - hell install Proxmox and then you could run all of them in containers / VMs and just have the one box connected to your NBN handling network security, HA, storage, media streaming etc. (though I'd probably go the extra and buy a 32GB SODIMM from a local vendor, this aliexpress vendor charges nearly $100 AUD for a 16GB SODIMM to be pre-installed, not worth it imo).

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          Waffles on 24/06/2025 - 14:17

          +1

          @Mikael: Confirming that Plex can see the transcoder and when I play content explicitly transcoded the cpu spikes at the start but then settles down. Thanks @gizmomelb

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            Mikael on 24/06/2025 - 14:36

            @Waffles: Yeah I see that too but doesn't hw (gpu) encoding. Just the CPU.
            On my old setup with a Nvidia card i could see hw transcoding on dashboard. Ahh, there is updates on unRaid. Going to upgrade tonight. There are more support for Intel gpu.

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        gizmomelb on 24/06/2025 - 22:26

        @Waffles - no worries and glad you confirmed it worked, I've seen a number of people having the issue with igpu and n150 under proxmox and I've suggested they all they updating the kernel but none of them ever tried it, or if they did they didn't confirm it worked (I've got an N150 but I already have a jellyfin instance running on an Intel n5095 based system, so haven't tried it myself sorry).

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          Mikael on 25/06/2025 - 02:39

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          @gizmomelb: Updated unRaid to 7.1.4. inserted under Docker settings. For Plex.

          Add device
          Name. —device /dev/dri
          Value /dev/dri

          Apply.
          It now showing hw transcoding and using much less CPU power.

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            gizmomelb on 25/06/2025 - 12:17

            @Mikael: luvvly jubbly! now we just sit back and wait until NBN is given the free upgrade and we get 500/50 NBN as 'standard'.

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              Waffles on 25/06/2025 - 13:01

              @gizmomelb: Ahh, I missed that I should see a (HW) tag next to transcode. I'm not seeing that. I suspect that running a few streams will still cause issues. I'll try to get to some debug logs to see what's going on - it's still definitely closer than it was.

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                Mikael on 25/06/2025 - 13:42

                @Waffles: @gizmomelb
                Not sure if similar settings for you. Look 3 posts up what i added on my Plex Docker to get it working. After inserting that I can see Intel igpu on Plex transcoder settings.
                Running one or two should be fine. But if more you gonna use all CPU and it will freeze.

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                  gizmomelb on 25/06/2025 - 15:08

                  +1

                  @Mikael: @Mikael — I'm running jellyfin in a docker (under Synology) so different settings. One thing I will say is that the majority of my media is already HEVC encoded (I keep the high def audio at DTS/Atmos/TrueHD) and transcoding almost never occurs for any of my users (except audio transcoding for those who don't have soundbars / surround sound).

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              Mikael on 25/06/2025 - 13:44

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              @gizmomelb: Got 1000/50 already. Think that be 1000/100. But got a new udr7 so ready for the 2000/200 speeds. Pending price lol. Of course they need to upgrade NTU/D.

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  puffinfresh on 02/07/2025 - 18:21

  It's now $390.53 including (the usual excessive) GST. Use code AUCD20

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