New Home Server

Had a bit of a home networking collapse a couple of months ago when I finally accepted the inadequacy of the now-12-year-old computer I was using as the "service-box" for my home network setup (*arr stuff, jellyfin, anything that required more grunt than a dedicated NAS and wasn't directly storage intensive) and gave it the proverbial Do Not Resuscitate badge - I backed up everything I could think of and waited for it to fall over again. About a week later it fell over, I gave a little salute, and went shopping for a replacement machine. I was compelled by the various mini-PC options as I'd sort of honed in on a particular set of needs by learning on my old machine - I wanted decent video transcoding performance, moderate RAM, and the ability to run on low wattage most of the time. I settled on a GMKTec M8, mostly because it was at a decent price and had 16GB of memory in the current climate for barely £300, which seemed absurd. I also used this opportunity to finally ditch TrueNAS -…