mumus

Hi guys. I thought I'd share my experience with this little gem. I have been running one (N40L) 24/7 since 2012. Amazing little box. Other than the occasional OS update, its uptime has been an amazing 100%. The original HDDs when setup are still in use. Those are four WD 3TB (1 red for parity and 3 greens); one 2TB Seagate Green I had from a prior build; and, one 2.5" 1 TB WD Blue used as a cache drive. My 11 TB array has now less than 10% free space. I guess it is time for an upgrade. So I started with buying HDD. (Good enough offers so I couldn't resist). I now have 6x WD My Book (4x 10 TB and 2x 8 TB). They all are WD Whites and are now pre-cleared. The main use for my shoebox is to serve - without transcoding, though if I found a 1050 that'd fit, I will squeeze it in to assist with - a few kodi boxes using the Emby docker. (Although I have started looking into Jellyfin). Other dockers used are Sickchill, Deluge VPN and Let's Encrypt for connecting two remote kodi boxes. The server has 8 GB of RAM and only less than half is used. So I am considering giving the server more to do and adding nextcloud and OpenVPN but I don't know whether the CPU has enough stamina. I might have reached the limit of this box. What do you think? Are you guys getting more out of them? Should I consider building from scratch, in which case, the Ryzen 5 2600 looks appealing (I saw one for 100 euros new yesterday) even if I currently have no use for VMs... Voila, my 2cents using this box. Comments are welcome, especially if you use it differently or have found a more recent replacement.