In my last post I wrote a bit about how my homelab was getting started and setup, since then I have modified it abit. Mini PCs do play some part in that.
TrueNAS Scale
As I mentioned in the previeous post, I now have a 4U case with a Ryzen 3 3200G, 16GB RAM and the 4x4TB disks. Since then I have bought a 8x3TB used enterprise SAS disk, of which 3 turned out to be faulty and I wasn't able to use, so I added only 5 of them to the case, and finally I added one 12TB brand new SATA disk. I will not recommend using a single disk in a TrueNAS install, but I had to put it in there due to the 5x3TB disk array started complaining so now I only have 4x4TB and the single 12TB running in the NAS.
The MiniPCs
The bigger one
The bigger of the two is a Beelink EQR5 that I got for dirt cheap on Amazon, it sports a Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U, 6c/12t CPU clocked at 4.3GHz. On it I run Proxmox and it has bascially replaced my older Z420 workstation server I was using before. It came with a 512GB NVME drive and I added a 1TB NVME additional disk. I also upgraded the memory from 16GB to 32GB.
The smaller one
The smaller of the two machines I have now running is a Beelink S12 Pro, running a N100 CPU, it has a 512GB mSATA drive and has 16GB of RAM installed. On it I run a simple Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS server with Jellyfin as the main objective. It does nothing else than boot, mount my network shares and run Jellyfin instance I run for me and my family. I do have Tailscale installed on it so my kids in Norway can access it as well as family back in Iceland.