So I had a look at Joe’s guide for asking for build help but I think this is worth asking. The context (hardware): Rather than layout a set of requirements and choose hardware to complement it, I’m starting with some old hardware I’d like to turn into an ITX form factor home NAS box. I have a Ryze…

[image] yaseen_reza: If possible, I’d like to have a VM that I can remote into, maybe just a desktop with personal documents (no gaming) - but I’ve probably misunderstood this application. VMs are usually headless Unix applications. If you want a VM of a dektop OS, you’ll need a GPU to pass t…

[image] yaseen_reza: While I’d originally planned to use just the 4x onboard SATA and the m.2 slot, do I even need a video card to transcode anything at this point? I know my CPU does not have built-in graphics but it sounds like my CPU is powerful enough to brute force transcode videos by itsel…

[image] yaseen_reza: real solution is to buy a 10GiB networking adapter If you have a switch/firewall that can support 10g connections, go for it, 10g is better than 1g :grin:

Thank you everyone for the replies. Yes, I have heard many people trash on the realtek NIC and advocate for intel. I think I will drop the desktop VM idea that requires a GPU, and instead find a better networking solution

[image] yaseen_reza: Question(s): While I’d originally planned to use just the 4x onboard SATA and the m.2 slot, do I even need a video card to transcode anything at this point? I know my CPU does not have built-in graphics but it sounds like my CPU is powerful enough to brute force transcode v…

[image] Whattteva: 10G NIC sure would be nice, but unless your workload includes constantly transferring gigs of data for hours, 1G is more than enough for the vast majority of people. Thanks for the additional advice! I’ve been thinking about it and yeah, it doesn’t make sense to go hard on …

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Building first NAS - what to do with PCIe?

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