Is a NUC better or similar to a N100?

Is there a percentage of the TDP which is usually the idle power draw?

Best would be below 100€. 200€ would be possible but I’d have to save a bit.

So back to beelink on amazon?

How much was it?

Unfortunately tere doesn’t seem to be a market for used Tiger Lakes yet.

What do you think about a i5-7200U? It has a Intel 620 iGPU.

Alright so I checked the docs but I’m not fluent with video codecs. For av1 you need basically a new integrated gpu, right? But for x265 (is that the same as H.265 in the docs?) a kaby lake should be fine if I read that correctly.

So maybe a i5-7200U should be capable enough?

Edit: And to answer your question about the RPi: it seemed to me that I had to reduce the quality to watch a film without stuttering and in the future I might want to stream on a projector so I want the highest possible resolution.

Okay and what about longevity of the drives? That should just depend on the number of writes, right?

But an M.2 is usually more expensive than a normal 2.5" SSD. Is it better to boot from a M.2 HAT than from USB?

What about enclosures from Sabrent? That should be a reliable manufacturer, no?

Is this command to check the health of the SSD/drive in general?

Thank you, I think I will go with this and a SSD from crucial to start off and then add some HDDs for backup and NAS. Do you think this kind of enclosure is reliable enough for a NAS? And is there enough airflow if you add two 3.5" HDDs together in the dock station?

Thank you very much, this helped way more than the other comment!

Happy cake day!

I heard it’s not so good practice to buy used drives so I will not do that for now but thanks for the second part I will consider that!

I stumbled upon the Crucial BX, do you think that one is not reliable enough? Because I think I use that in my PC atm and it runs fine. But it’s not a home server so there is probably less load on this one.

For example? Kingston, Crucial?

Could you elaborate?

What does YMMV mean? And yeah sure, I just want to run the OS on the SSD and a few containers but the rest on HDDs and also backups on other HDDs.