Whitney Krape

Category: Immich

  • Nevermind, Immich on a shared N150, 70k files in 1 week

    With 70k+ photos and movies coming into immich; getting all new thumbnails, and organization I thought it would be months before the limited Intel N150 would finish processing but it may just be weeks. In fact, the library was usable almost overnight. Around 20k iCloud files came in about 2-3 hours. It seems like the RAW photos and video are taking the most time, as would be expected.

    What is more, the search already is producing great results.

    Need to revisit all the numbers but so far, impressive speed, and UX is great. Not doing everything standard though. We have iCloudPD pulling in images rather than using the phone backup but will go into more detail later.

    Updated and Retried on iOS and Ubuntu 25.04 powered by an N150 and 16 GB RAM 2025/11/10

  • Running Immich on an Intel N150 with 70k+ photos is, maybe, not advisable

    Running Immich on an Intel N150 with 70k+ photos is, maybe, not advisable

    Revisited: Great results here!

    Another back and forth between software options this time Immich versus Photopixel. Photopixel was, fine? But not great. So I’ve set up the Docker Compose for Immich and pointed it to 2 external libraries to start digesting. While it is surely pulling everything in it is doing so slowly. Nearly all images are showing “Error loading image” without much explanation. That said, older years are starting to show thumbnails and open fully after about 8-10 hours of processing.

    Ideally, this would be set up as a Kubernetes cluster but, not having done that before, that will take some time to learn.

    On Photopixel. I wouldn’t dissuade folks from trying it but my issues were:

    1. Performance. Thumbnails, even on a faster system, seemed to take a while to populate while scrolling. So far Immich shows blurry previews quickly and resolves to a preview much faster.
    2. UX for downloads. It was a pain to get to a download of an image. You have to go through a couple clicks to just download the file, Immich it’s right at the top.
    3. UX overall. Not going to be exhaustive here but overall Immich feels like photos stay front and center and menus are thoughtfully off to the side and laid out well in the options rather than being so front and center with Photopixel.

    Need to do a proper breakdown but happy with Immich so far, just a little painful with a large library and a fairly “slow” system.

    Updated and Retried on Ubuntu 25.04 and a 16 GB RAM Intel N150 2025/11/10