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Hello, I am looking forward to building a new NAS with HexOS. I want to host my own jellyfin instance for movies / shows. I have read that intels quick sync that is build into their modern CPUs is the cheapest / most power effective solution for transcoding my 4k UHD Blurays. I would also like to have ECC memory since TrueNAS recommends using it and I don't really want to use any of my data. Now I don't know how important ECC really is. There are two sides: One that tells you that it is really dangerous to not use ECC memory and the other that says it's useless for a home NAS. The real answer is probably somewhere in the middle. I have used TrueNAS and other NAS systems before and never had a problem without ECC. Still I got that little thought in my head that makes me unsure about not using ECC. Like... what if I don't notice the error in the metadata of a file instantly and after years when I finally try to view it again the file is corrupted? I don't want to have surprises like these. After looking around the Web for CPUs that have ECC and are from Intel (Or from AMD with an integrated GPU, but I'm not sure how they compare in encoding) I am... well lost. I found: Intel Atoms that TrueNAS themself are using for their prebuild systems (Expensive and hard to get) AMD Ryzen (Have ECC but no iGPU) General Intel CPUs from the last few gens (Have ECC + Quick Sync but requires the W680 chipset for ECC => 500€ for a motherboard) Ryzen APUs (Only the pro models support ECC and you can only get them in prebuilds) Old Xeons (No iGPU most of the time / power hungry / have to buy from ebay / motherboards are expensive) So my three options are as follows: Use a Ryzen 7 3700x I have lying around with a new motherboard + ECC Ram and buy an ARC GPU Buy a new i3 / i5 + regular motherboard and RAM (No ECC except the build in DDR5 one) Hope someone here knows a magical CPU that can fulfil my (apparently) otherworldly desires Since the new Intel CPUs use DDR5 RAM it has (kind of) ECC already but I heard it's not as save / good as real ECC memory. Maybe someone here can give their opinion on that. Currently I'm kind of swinging towards the second option (Buying new Intel CPUs) since DDR5 has (kind of) ECC and Quick Sync, additionally it will probably use the least power. Depending on how good the DDR5 ECC really is I might as well buy a few gens older model since the CPU itself is cheaper and I can use cheaper DDR4 RAM. I hope someone can help me here, thanks for reading!