Yeah that checks out.

It seems the HBA is the better performing option anyway so I’ll go for that

See if you can get it going. I’ve found it to be a wonderful tool to listen to music.

And yeah audiobookshelf is king for audio books. You’d have to tinker with jellyfin a lot to get half the features. Better to use something that just works out the box

I think I’ve found a solution. If I get a CPU with integrated graphics I can get rid of my GPU, its only an old quadro k620 so its so super powerful anyway.

I spent hours last night looking up new parts for a new build but I think this is the best option. The whole reason I have an itx is cause I really like the 8 bay case.

If all that fails I’ll get a new board

I just about pulled the trigger on it and saw my board only has one pcie which us presently occupied. Back to the drawing board!

I’ll look into this. I’m confused with what a raid controller and hba are and which one I need for zfs

Great thank you

Will thus work for zfs truenas aswell

Ah, I’m running truenas which uses zfs

Might be abit much but double your ram if you intend on using a lot of apps

I’m really enjoying mealie. I just wish there was an easier way to input nutritional information

Thank you so much for such a detailed reply. I’m going to print this off and go through it point by point.

I didn’t realize how overwhelming this would be, the amount of information is incredible.

I was trying to use the cloud flare ai assistant to set up WARP access to my phone but then I realized its basically another VPN which defeats the whole point on me using the domain because I wanted to be able to use my traditional VPN to stay protected.

I also wanted to be able to log into my server android apps like immich and Joplin but can’t do that with authentication as its not a webpage.

I’ll print this off and anything I don’t understand (most of it at this stage haha) I’ll spend some time studying it.

I got a good laugh at peepee poopoo

Thanks again

Thank you. I’ve bought a domain. I’d like to go with this option. Just researching how to do it on cloud flare