Greetings, I am in the process of learning self-hosting. Recently built a pc and its running as my Jellyfin client along with a Android TV box I flashed LineageOs onto. I grabbed a Lenovo mini pc, installed proxmox and I now have a few LXCs running, with one being Jellyfin. Was wondering what most people used as a solution for file storage on a budget? Was looking at getting a 2-bay Ugreen NAS, but then I heard the NFS latency can be a bit much- also read that an Intel processor is necessary on these for transcoding and swapping OSes, which ups the cost a bit. I've heard of some people using the Lenovo mini PCs and just attaching external storage. I'm still new at selfhosting and am wondering what would be the best route for me, don't really like tinkering with hardware a ton and was hoping to use an open source NAS like trueNAS and not some proprietary system. Thanks!

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[–] mushroomman_toad@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Beelink ME mini has an Intel igpu and 6 nvme slots for very cheap. Memory is a bit low though and CPU might not handle much more than Jellyfin

Probably a good option to get you started and then you can just use it as a Nas if you upgrade to a bigger AMD machine for docker/kubernetes.