For the CPU: I have a AMD Ryzen 5 8600G in my TrueNAS Scale box, I use the integrated graphics for hardware transcoding in Jellyfin. If you don't need transcoding it's probably overkill.

For TrueNAS you'll also want a lot of RAM, as ZFS (the filesystem) gets faster with more ram by using it as a cache. My box has 32 GB, but 16 GB should also work, especially if you're going with SSD storage.

And don't go cheap on the power supply, get an efficient one from a good brand (I prefer BeQuiet).

Depends a bit on what kind of topics you're interested in, maybe you can expand a bit on that so others can give better recommendations.

Some of my preferred channels (All in the tech/science/engineering area):

• https://nebula.tv/realengineering
• https://nebula.tv/realscience
• https://nebula.tv/practical-engineering
• https://nebula.tv/stewarthicks
• https://nebula.tv/lowspecgamer

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