Words evolve, and sometimes, they gain new meanings. “Bare metal” is not a scientific terms, and so it can be bent depending on the context.

You can either accept that or not, it doesn’t change the fact that that’s what it now can mean.

It’s just what it means in this specific context.

They’re not running directly on the host, with directly meaning directly.

If you go by definition, I agree with you, but the definition is not always the thing to go off of.

Have you read my comment? It’s about where the packages and services are installed.

In this case, they’re installed in the container, not on the host

Not in this context. Bare metal means all packages and services installed and running directly on the host, not through docker/lxc/vms

They literally say “it doesn’t matter” if you leave it open, but that you might come across issues if you don’t

https://letsencrypt.org/docs/allow-port-80/

It’s not.

Just fyi - running TrueNAS with zfs as a VM under Proxmox is a recipe for disaster, as me how I know.

Zfs needs direct drive access, with VMs, the hypervisor virtualizes the adapter which is then passed through, which can mess things up.

What you’d need to do is buy a sata/sas card and pass the whole card through, then you can use a vm.

Haven’t come across any xml during my deployment so far

Yeah, whoever thought that sd cards were a good idea for anything even resembling operating systems is a dum dum

Oh for sure, it’s just a loot more expensive

They’re taking about a NAS though?

The issue is, you can optimize a software encoders continually, you can use tricks for better quality etc.

A hardware encoder is just that - hardware. As soon as it’s burned to the silicon, you’re not making any (at least substantial) changes to it. You might also be limited by what you can actually do directly in hardware without using too much die space.

Tldr.: no, you won’t get the same result

The R5 is amazing, though yeah the 5.25" bays are kinda a waste.

I found a thingy though that fits into the bay and houses 6 2.5" SSDs, it’s pretty cool!

One thing I haven’t seen mentioned here, zfs can be quite finicky with some sata cards, especially raid cards.

I suggest you connect the hard drives to the motherboard directly and test again.

Often the mining rigs use just 1-4 pcie lanes (per GPU), because more isn’t required for mining and it saves on other costs

Dedup is apparently very very resource intensive and not worth the load unless you’re expecting 5x+ reductions in space usage

Probably depends though

Value wise I’d say 2tb is the sweet spot, at least looking at the prices around here.

$48 / 2TB HDD $82 / 2TB NVMe SSD

yes it is almost double, but the ssd is most likely gonna last longer, suck up less electricity and is muuuuch faster to boot

so at least long-term, it might actually be cheaper

I’d personally raise the min. storage to 2TB, SSDs are too cheap nowadays

The cost of this would be much higher than just buying a bigger UPS I imagine, but it’s definitely doable from the technical standpoint