Good point on the expansion. But o am not too bothered about it, as I have always done by moving data around. Takes a while, but leaves you with a set of disks with the old data still there, and it saved my ass a few times in the past. Now I should be fine with good backups, but you never know.
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I was impressed that HDDs where drawing so much, compared to overall CPU usage...
And its over 20% saving.
Yes, pennies, but nevertheless interesting.
My energy cost is about 0.6€/kWh, so not trivial, but I actually run it on PV, so not really a money factor, more an energy efficient consideration.
I got put off by how complex that was and that you need to do exactly what you described. So no, I didn't.
I managed telegram tough, and still that was not the most pleasant experience.
I did a few.months ago. Quite a mess, but got it to work at the end of the day.
My experience is described here https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=services%3Asynapse
There is no real need for GPU, since its not ideal to use GPU for storage. GPU transcoding is better suited for streaming, and it has lower quality than CPU transcoding.
Anyway, just enable it by setting the proper ffmpeg flags as stated in the readme and there you go.
Well, you need to set the specific ffmpeg flags as stated in the readme... If you already know them, its easy.
Glad I helped!
Let me know how it goes! Happy to help if I can.
IMU, GPU encoding is for streaming: it aims at fast, not so great, output quality without CPU usage. Exactly what you are getting.
Don't use GPU encoding for storage... CPU encoding is much better.
Edit: since its aimed at streaming, GPU encoding only needs to achieve real time performance, no need to go any faster. CPU encoding instead can go as fast as your cores can push.
Using unbound on opnSense with blacklists. Works wonders and do not require an additional device.
Yes I follow the 3 2 1 rule, one local backup on the hdd, one on another disk at home (connected to a openwrt router) and one offsite on my vps.
I was using ssd for backup because I was dumb... I guess...
Because needed extra space and added mindlessly the hdd without realizing I should have moved to a more efficient approach.