Infrastructure
Homelab
2024 - present
A self-hosted server running storage, media, automation and local inference, built to hold a photography archive that outgrew every consumer option.
- Platform
- TrueNAS SCALE on Debian 12
- CPU
- Ryzen 9 5900XT, 16 cores / 32 threads
- Memory
- 128 GB DDR4
- Transcoding
- Intel ARC A380, AV1 and HEVC
- Transcode pipeline saved
- 710.5 GB
- Reclaimed by deduplication
- 747 GiB
- Direct link throughput
- 960 Mbps
The machine runs Jellyfin and the media automation stack, n8n for workflows, Ollama for local models, and a Minecraft server. It is reachable from outside over Tailscale rather than by opening ports.
The numbers above are the point. A transcode pipeline built around the ARC card's AV1 encoder has recovered 710.5 GB, and deduplicating the library reclaimed another 747 GiB - roughly a drive's worth of space that did not have to be bought.
The honest open problem is backup. The array holds the only copy of a large photography archive, and getting a real second copy off this machine matters more than anything else on this page.