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Mini-PCs & Home Servers

The compute layer under a homelab: N100 boxes to used enterprise 1U, when a mini-PC beats a NAS appliance, and what it takes to transcode and virtualize.

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Glossary terms

iGPU
The CPU’s integrated graphics — the transcode engine.
QuickSync
Intel’s fixed-function video encode/decode block.
Docker Container
A lightweight, isolated package for running an app.
VM / Hypervisor (Proxmox)
Software that runs full virtual machines on one host.

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