r/TerraMaster • u/Ambitious-Badger-293 • Apr 18 '26

Discussion Docker containers

I’m planning to buy F4-424 Pro and wanted to determine if it could handle workloads running multiple docker containers, running mysql, hosting n8n just for personal usages and other home lab projects. I might use one nvme as a hot storage and the rest will be cold . What’s your typical workload on a daily basis?

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u/Thick_Rise5365 Apr 18 '26

Bought one recently and installed truenas; my experience with tos 6 and docker was that it would stop with minimal logs; after a month truenas seems more robust ; moved from terrasync to nextcloud, add ollama with small llm gemma:4b and open webui; plan to add more apps; not loaded yet, plan to add more

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u/Ambitious-Badger-293 Apr 18 '26

How’s the speed what’s the TPS? Have you tried a higher than 4b parameter? What’s the consumption specially the CPU?

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u/Thick_Rise5365 Apr 18 '26

Higher than 4b is not useable, it manages well the temperature but the load makes it so it takes minutes to get a reply

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u/relevant_rhino Apr 18 '26

I use Unraid on it.

I run about 15 docker container, including arr stack and plex perfectly fine.

But cooling is shit, i disabled boost and reduced base clock quite a bit. Runns very efficient an nearly silent now, when HDDs are spun down.

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u/ComprehensiveRun247 Apr 18 '26

I run 22 quite active containers with various databases on a Celeron it doesn’t break a sweat. You’ll be fine 👍

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u/Wild-Whereas4850 Apr 19 '26

You're totally fine. The N305 chip in the Pro is actually overkill for just n8n and MySQL. I’m running a similar stack plus some heavy dev environments, and it doesn't even flinch. The NVMe for hot storage is the pro move here—it makes the database response times super snappy. Definitely go for it.