[bombela]

Immich is genuinely good.

I run it on a credit sized intel N100 board with a few spinning disks. There was nothing to do, it all just worked right away.

Everything is fast and smooth. The AI indexing and search just work™ and it is faster than google photo ever was. And there is no censorship on the AI search terms.

I also like that I can configure the filesystem hierarchy I prefer.

[Melatonic]

What kind of indexing and searching can you do ? I've found Google sometimes struggles with certain things (surprisingly) like searching for a date range if I don't specify the date in the ideal format. For other stuff like "stars over trees" or similar it can work quite well.

[bombela]

Search by date, OCR, AI context, people's face, location, by map, and I probably forget some. And from any result you can then jump to its location in the timeline. Back history navigation works properly to boot. And all of that is very pleasantly fast. I am very sensitive to latency, and Immich is one of the rare software that actually feels fast. Google photo is trash in comparison.

[reddalo]

I honestly think that the search feature of Immich is better than Google Photos.

Maaaybe AI-based searches like "cat on a red car" are better on Google (but I wouldn't bet my life on it), but Immich applies the exact filters that I want (Google is too fuzzy).

Also, unlike Google, Immich doesn't censor your searches, so I can look up for naked pictures or photos of gorillas, and actually see the results.

[Lord_Zero]

What board

[bombela]

It's a no-name mini PC with four HDD bays. It doesn't seem to exist anymore.

It's a weird Chinese board with a silly gen1x1 pcie link to a 4 port sata controller on a daughter board. I bet it was designed for the 2 port version of the controller and two bays. And some lhow they sold a 4 bays version. So I only have half the bandwidth required to drive the 4xHDDs. Sucks for linux raid.

Interestingly this tiny mobo also has two full speed sata ports on it, that are completely inaccessible, I am not even sure a low profile and thin sata cable can even fit in there. Maybe one day I will try to solder in place from the mobo to the daughter board.