[Hostile_18]

I did freenas for many years. It was rubbish. I ended up losing 2 drives and lost the raid. I spent 3 mo the trying to recover it. Lost alot of work, art and music. Only recovered about 60%. I then turned to xpenology and haven't looked back. Xpenology is a hacked synology. It's difficult since it all depends on what hardware you use if it will work. But if it does work, it's synology which is awesome

I'm still to post my setup, but I use it for storing all my work software, my art, my music and other random shit. Then I have the radarr and sonarr setup that I have been running for years. Radarr and Sonarr monitor lists from trakt and another auto list site. They connect to nzbgeek and use Usenet to collect. It then gets placed in the corresponding folders and plex monitors it. There is also another rr that does subtitles that runs over the top grabbing subs.

I then have a 4TB usb that's doing daily backups of the important stuff, if it has the sonarr and radarr backups, I don't need to backup the media since they can go and collect again.

Synology is great since they have their own raid partitioning method that allows different size drives. I think you can lose 2 drives at a certain size % and still be ok. But I have 6 x 3TB drives. The Seagate raid wolf drives haven't skipped a beat. I have a 4TB on standby.

There's an app on Unraid for backing up all App Data. That way I run it all on the Cache and have that as a fail safe. It's good to know Radarr and Sonarr save a listing of everything. How did two drives fail? I only have one Parity, but always envisioned if one drive ever broke, I'd shut down the NAS until the drive was replaced.

 

[kiNeMs]

There's an app on Unraid for backing up all App Data. That way I run it all on the Cache and have that as a fail safe. It's good to know Radarr and Sonarr save a listing of everything. How did two drives fail? I only have one Parity, but always envisioned if one drive ever broke, I'd shut down the NAS until the drive was replaced.

I have radarr and sonarr running in dockers. The config files for those dockers are in a separate directory that I backup.

The 2 drives failing was just due to mismanagement. I didn't have any alerting setup, and one day the whole thing shit itself.

 

[prag16]

I'm very basic. Have an old tower with a 14TB drive in it. Shoved behind a TV comsole. Doesn't use much power so I don't mind keeping it on all the time. All my torrented media is on there, not being backed up. I have a 4TB drive in there too on which "important" shit is mirrored via synctoy app. It runs my Plex server, and also automatic 'cloud' backups for my wife and I's phones.

When I sail the high seas i remote into it and do my business (VPN always on).

That's about it. Amateur hour, but serves my purposes, and I spent hardly anything.

Used to do usenet but kept having problems with trackers and got annoyed having to pay more for better service. So I slum it with torrents now. Gets it done.

 

[kiNeMs]

My Build

Case

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The hot swap on this is awesome, I have a spare drive ready to go. Synology just allows for pulling the drive live, re insert a new one and it rebuilds itself.

Mobo
Cant remember Mobo, Its Micro ATX with 6 Sata onboard.
Teamed Network Ports.

CPU
Intel COre-i3 4130

RAM
16GB

Storage


Apps:
Hyper Backup - for Backup to External USB
Download Station - For Torrent. Rarely Use. But a handy client
Plex - Shared with various friends and family
Synology Mail Server - I use this with Gmail SMTP relaying for notifications. Bit of a bitch to setup. But the thing will email me every day on disk health which is much needed after my past experience.

Dockers :
Watchtower - Automated Docker Updater. Monitors all the containers and updates them to the latest. (Config Directory must be external to the docker, since this basically deletes the docker and reloads the image, then repoints to the config data.)
SabNzdb - Collector
Radarr
Sonarr
Bazarr - Subs

I've rebuilt these things many times, the best way is to have one share folder that servers all your media, then have subdirectories under that. ).


Media /
Incomplete
Complete
Classics
New
Recyclebin



This way you can create 1 user account that has the correct permissions across the board and map the root folder to all the apps. Always make sure to setup a recycle bin as there are a lot of failures that occur and can use a lot of storage space.

I then have Trakt integration for both Radarr and Sonarr, then I can manually add things via Trakt and they will automatically pick it up. Then there is listrr.pro which can create automatic lists via trakt, you can build it via filters, so I have something like Anything produced by an American company, released this year, will get added automatically. I have having to do anything manually. Automation is key.

This is all after I have purchased the Blu Ray!!!!!!

 

[p_banned]

This is where I've been ordering for recently. Highly recommended. Especially if you are UK based, not sure how it compares to American prices (where you would have to pay import tax). Just ordered another brand new 16tb myself for £153, 5 year warranty. They have just come back in stock a few hours ago.

Seagate ST16000NM001G Exos Enterprise (X16) 16TB SATA Hard Drive

Lowest price for Seagate Exos X16 ST16000NM001G 16TB is £179.99.Seagate Exos X16 ST16000NM001G - Hard drive - 16 TB - internal - SATA 6Gb/s - 7200 rpm - buffer: 256 MB

robertelectronics.co.uk

Are Seagate drives still redicuously bad. Been with WD for the last decades.

 

[Hostile_18]

Are Seagate drives still redicuously bad. Been with WD for the last decades.

No I believe there as good as any others now since the last 5 or so years. All my drives have a 5 year warranty and have a high TBW value. For a NAS really you want Exos, WD or Iron Wolf drives.

 

[Hostile_18]

My Build

Case

Buy Silverstone CS382 8-bay hot-swappable Micro-ATX NAS Case [SST-CS382] | PC Case Gear Australia

Silverstone CS382 8-bay hot-swappable Micro-ATX NAS Case available to buy online from PC Case Gear – Australia’s Premier Online PC Store.

www.pccasegear.com

The hot swap on this is awesome, I have a spare drive ready to go. Synology just allows for pulling the drive live, re insert a new one and it rebuilds itself.

Mobo
Cant remember Mobo, Its Micro ATX with 6 Sata onboard.
Teamed Network Ports.

CPU
Intel COre-i3 4130

RAM
16GB

Storage


Apps:
Hyper Backup - for Backup to External USB
Download Station - For Torrent. Rarely Use. But a handy client
Plex - Shared with various friends and family
Synology Mail Server - I use this with Gmail SMTP relaying for notifications. Bit of a bitch to setup. But the thing will email me every day on disk health which is much needed after my past experience.

Dockers :
Watchtower - Automated Docker Updater. Monitors all the containers and updates them to the latest. (Config Directory must be external to the docker, since this basically deletes the docker and reloads the image, then repoints to the config data.)
SabNzdb - Collector
Radarr
Sonarr
Bazarr - Subs

I've rebuilt these things many times, the best way is to have one share folder that servers all your media, then have subdirectories under that. ).


Media /
Incomplete
Complete
Classics
New
Recyclebin



This way you can create 1 user account that has the correct permissions across the board and map the root folder to all the apps. Always make sure to setup a recycle bin as there are a lot of failures that occur and can use a lot of storage space.

I then have Trakt integration for both Radarr and Sonarr, then I can manually add things via Trakt and they will automatically pick it up. Then there is listrr.pro which can create automatic lists via trakt, you can build it via filters, so I have something like Anything produced by an American company, released this year, will get added automatically. I have having to do anything manually. Automation is key.

This is all after I have purchased the Blu Ray!!!!!!

Agree on the Recycle bin for sure. I'm pretty sure Sonarr and Radarr say the downloads folder should be away from your media directory though in a separate share. I presume it's so there's never any danger of them removing any files over there once a job is complete.

For Jellyfin and Plex. It should look like this;

Media
- Films
- Film 1
- Film 2

-TV Shows
- TV Show
- Season 01
- Episodes

 

[Hostile_18]

I'm very basic. Have an old tower with a 14TB drive in it. Shoved behind a TV comsole. Doesn't use much power so I don't mind keeping it on all the time. All my torrented media is on there, not being backed up. I have a 4TB drive in there too on which "important" shit is mirrored via synctoy app. It runs my Plex server, and also automatic 'cloud' backups for my wife and I's phones.

When I sail the high seas i remote into it and do my business (VPN always on).

That's about it. Amateur hour, but serves my purposes, and I spent hardly anything.

Used to do usenet but kept having problems with trackers and got annoyed having to pay more for better service. So I slum it with torrents now. Gets it done.

Team it up with Real Debrid/All Debrid. Max download speeds, no seeding and no VPN required.

 

[prag16]

Team it up with Real Debrid/All Debrid. Max download speeds, no seeding and no VPN required.

Huh, never heard of this. Intriguing. Thanks.

 

[Hostile_18]

My Build

Case

Buy Silverstone CS382 8-bay hot-swappable Micro-ATX NAS Case [SST-CS382] | PC Case Gear Australia

Silverstone CS382 8-bay hot-swappable Micro-ATX NAS Case available to buy online from PC Case Gear – Australia’s Premier Online PC Store.

www.pccasegear.com

The hot swap on this is awesome, I have a spare drive ready to go. Synology just allows for pulling the drive live, re insert a new one and it rebuilds itself.

Mobo
Cant remember Mobo, Its Micro ATX with 6 Sata onboard.
Teamed Network Ports.

CPU
Intel COre-i3 4130

RAM
16GB

Storage


Apps:
Hyper Backup - for Backup to External USB
Download Station - For Torrent. Rarely Use. But a handy client
Plex - Shared with various friends and family
Synology Mail Server - I use this with Gmail SMTP relaying for notifications. Bit of a bitch to setup. But the thing will email me every day on disk health which is much needed after my past experience.

Dockers :
Watchtower - Automated Docker Updater. Monitors all the containers and updates them to the latest. (Config Directory must be external to the docker, since this basically deletes the docker and reloads the image, then repoints to the config data.)
SabNzdb - Collector
Radarr
Sonarr
Bazarr - Subs

I've rebuilt these things many times, the best way is to have one share folder that servers all your media, then have subdirectories under that. ).


Media /
Incomplete
Complete
Classics
New
Recyclebin



This way you can create 1 user account that has the correct permissions across the board and map the root folder to all the apps. Always make sure to setup a recycle bin as there are a lot of failures that occur and can use a lot of storage space.

I then have Trakt integration for both Radarr and Sonarr, then I can manually add things via Trakt and they will automatically pick it up. Then there is listrr.pro which can create automatic lists via trakt, you can build it via filters, so I have something like Anything produced by an American company, released this year, will get added automatically. I have having to do anything manually. Automation is key.

This is all after I have purchased the Blu Ray!!!!!!

Ignore what I said about downloads being on a different share. It works like I said, but makes Hard Links unavailable, so your way is better. Just modifying my download path now, so files will transfer over a lot quicker.

 

[Tapped]

Nice thread! I ran 25 cat6a drops around my house last year and finally finished sorting out the cupboard where they terminate. Just got an 8U rack setup and terminated to a patch panel. Currently a pretty basic setup with a UDM SE and USW-24-PoE. Also running a DS920+ with 2x18TB & a 20TB, all shucked WD Elements, currently waiting on a good price for another 20TB drive although I'm not in a rush as I have loads of space free still. I have a couple of N100 boxes that I'm planning to get setup via Proxmox to run a bunch of containerised services. I've never used Proxmox and pretty new to containerisation too so quite a bit of a learning curve but it's interesting stuff.

 

[Hostile_18]

I've been adding more indexers today to Sonarr. If you haven't already you should check out some AI upscale work. Star Trek Voyager looks amazing in 1080p, so much better than the commercial DVDs. Also Stargate moves in 4k look incredible at less than 10gb in size. Like its genuinely amazing how good they look given the source information the public has, compared the the studio. If anyone is intrested in screen shots just let me know.

 

[Hostile_18]

@teezzy this is one of the ways I meant, when I said you can get a better experience sailing. Voyager only has really old DVD's that look terrible and the Stargate movies have never had 4k releases, but look how good this is! (click for full res).

Star Trek Voyager.



Stargate SG1 Movies





Xena

 

[HE1NZ]

I've been adding more indexers today to Sonarr. If you haven't already you should check out some AI upscale work. Star Trek Voyager looks amazing in 1080p, so much better than the commercial DVDs. Also Stargate moves in 4k look incredible at less than 10gb in size. Like its genuinely amazing how good they look given the source information the public has, compared the the studio. If anyone is intrested in screen shots just let me know.

Bruh you don't need home server networks with 100tb of ssds to watch some 4k remasters. I can download these movies/shows in a couple of hours, watch and delete them.

 

[Hostile_18]

Bruh you don't need home server networks with 100tb of ssds to watch some 4k remasters. I can download these movies/shows in a couple of hours, watch and delete them.

I feel like movies can be more disposable like that, but tv shows are often hard to find and acquire. I always come back to my favourite tv shows every 5 years or so. Plus its amazing having everything all in one place and waiting for you. Plus my friends and family can access without having to have any kind of technical knowledge.

 

[HE1NZ]

I feel like movies can be more disposable like that, but tv shows are often hard to find and acquire. I always come back to my favourite tv shows every 5 years or so. Plus its amazing having everything all in one place and waiting for you. Plus my friends and family can access without having to have any kind of technical knowledge.

If you have access to a few private trackers you can get anything. I seed a bunch of rare blurays, like Cinerama collection for example, to keep my ratio up. Some old films released in small numbers can be hard to locate sometimes. But those 90s shows are not going anywhere.

 

[Hostile_18]

If you have access to a few private trackers you can get anything. I seed a bunch of rare blurays, like Cinerama collection for example, to keep my ratio up. Some old films released in small numbers can be hard to locate sometimes. But those 90s shows are not going anywhere.

Yeah I really don't want to get into seeding here. My collection is almost complete. Getting 90s shows in any quality is easy, but its a challenge on public trackers and usenet getting the best quality/fan restorations. A standard Voyager rip is about 300-700mb, my copies are 3.2gig each lol.

90% of my collection is BD Remuxs. That's my sweet spot or the point of diminishing returns.

 

[Hostile_18]

Tell you what is fun as well, tuning the algorithm. I started with trash guides and then modified from there. Got one main profile that will upgrade content to 1080p remux (or 2160p HDR web-dl) if no remux available. Putting scores to every element of a video, sound, resolution, dynamic range, encoder etc and tweaking as you go. It's grabbing almost everything correctly, but its so satisfying making a little tweak here and a little tweak there.

Only other profiles I've got are Prefer Amazon, Prefer Disney + etc for things like the Simpson's where there isn't BD discs or they are worse, and/or there's different quality web-dls between streaming services (so Web-DL won't just cut it and there isn't one rule that applies to all i.e Amazon sometimes has the best version, sometimes its Disney, show dependant).

 

[Showdown]

Prime Day is coming up in less than a week. Fingers crossed for some discounted items for a decent build. I'll be keeping a close watch.

 

[Hostile_18]

Prime Day is coming up in less than a week. Fingers crossed for some discounted items for a decent build. I'll be keeping a close watch.

There's no turning back now!

 

[Showdown]

There's no turning back now!

No. You've planted the idea in my head now. You did an Inception on me.

Speaking of which... Man would a 4K version of that movie look great playing off a new NAS w/ Plex docker...

 

[Hostile_18]

No. You've planted the idea in my head now. You did an Inception on me.

Speaking of which... Man would a 4K version of that movie look great playing off a new NAS w/ Plex docker...

How is your brand new server (you have surely built by now) running?

So I am now at 200tb Raw. I honestly got the last drive just because it made it up to a nice number lol. I can't see my getting anymore for a while. My last six drives have been new with a 5 year warranty at the £9 a Tb level. For UK pricing that's really good. Had to get a Sata PCIe card as I'd used all 8 ports on my Motherboard. Realistically I can populate about 9 more drives in the future, so my ceiling is around 350-380tb.

I download in such high quality, I think should I ever want to lower my standards (with very little quality loss) I could easily get/own every main stream film ever, and easily well over 1000+ tv shows.

TV shows have all being upgraded to Remux's and the 800 movies are very close to being fully upgraded as well. I want to get Westworld, Thrones UHD's on soon. Some of those final Game of Thrones episodes are like 40gb an episode lol.

 

[Showdown]

How is your brand new server (you have surely built by now) running?

So I am now at 200tb Raw. I honestly got the last drive just because it made it up to a nice number lol. I can't see my getting anymore for a while. My last six drives have been new with a 5 year warranty at the £9 a Tb level. For UK pricing that's really good. Had to get a Sata PCIe card as I'd used all 8 ports on my Motherboard. Realistically I can populate about 9 more drives in the future, so my ceiling is around 350-380tb.

I download in such high quality, I think should I ever want to lower my standards (with very little quality loss) I could easily get/own every main stream ever, and easily well over 1000+ tv shows.

TV shows have all being upgrades to Remux's and the 800 movies are very close to being fully upgraded as well. I want to get Westworld, Thrones UHD's on soon. Some of those final Game of Thrones episodes are like 40gb an episode lol.

Suffering from analysis paralysis haha. Sitting here staring at my Prime Day cart trying to figure out my cache drive situation. Literally for hours now. Super close to just saying screw it and YOLOing this. I'm way overthinking things. I always end up building out something way more than I need but I'm one of those people that would rather not need it and have it vs need it and not have it.

 

[Hostile_18]

Suffering from analysis paralysis haha. Sitting here staring at my Prime Day cart trying to figure out my cache drive situation. Literally for hours now. Super close to just saying screw it and YOLOing this. I'm way overthinking things. I always end up building out something way more than I need but I'm one of those people that would rather not need it and have it vs need it and not have it.

I'm like that. Do you know if your going Unraid? I like my bigger cache drive because I'm downloading huge files that can build up faster than I can transfer over. I guess the most important thing for a cache drive would be the TBW rating (as that's where your likely downloading too, before moving to the array).

 

[Hinedorf]

I have so many freakin 1TB storage drives laying around I'm like a digital hoarder. I keep telling myself at some point I'm going to get a central storage hub but haven't yet. OP's system looks sweet!

 

[Tapped]

Does anyone have resources or suggestions on where to learn about UPSs? I have very little knowledge and have never owned one but would like to get something setup to keep my NAS and homelab stuff ticking over in the case of a black out and offer some brown out protection too but not sure where to start, seems a huge variety of options.

 

[Hinedorf]

Does anyone have resources or suggestions on where to learn about UPSs? I have very little knowledge and have never owned one but would like to get something setup to keep my NAS and homelab stuff ticking over in the case of a black out and offer some brown out protection too but not sure where to start, seems a huge variety of options.

Setup several UPS's and at least from my experience you're never using one of these to really run your system in the event of a power outage but more or less give yourself the ability to gracefully shut down your system prior to a instant outage. Maybe it's changed over the years but that's always been the basis for how UPS's were used where I worked.

 

[Showdown]

I'm like that. Do you know if your going Unraid? I like my bigger cache drive because I'm downloading huge files that can build up faster than I can transfer over. I guess the most important thing for a cache drive would be the TBW rating (as that's where your likely downloading too, before moving to the array).

Yep, going Unraid. And I've settled now. I'm planning on doing the "over-engineered" setup. 2TB for my data/downloads. I think the one I'm grabbing was rated at 1200TBW last I checked. Then 1TB x 2 in RAID1 for appdata/VM's. 1TB is overkill honestly but the price difference between that and 500GB is like 10 bucks today.

 

[Hostile_18]

Setup several UPS's and at least from my experience you're never using one of these to really run your system in the event of a power outage but more or less give yourself the ability to gracefully shut down your system prior to a instant outage. Maybe it's changed over the years but that's always been the basis for how UPS's were used where I worked.

Especially relevant with Unraid. A unclean shut down means you should run a parity check and it's not ideal to be stressing your hard drives unnecessarily. That said I'm not sure if the juice is worth the squeeze for a home server. I haven't ever looked into costs and just presumed they were expensive. There are alot of UPS settings within Unraid to play with though, so I'd guess support is decent.

 

[Hostile_18]

Yep, going Unraid. And I've settled now. I'm planning on doing the "over-engineered" setup. 2TB for my data/downloads. I think the one I'm grabbing was rated at 1200TBW last I checked. Then 1TB x 2 in RAID1 for appdata/VM's. 1TB is overkill honestly but the price difference between that and 500GB is like 10 bucks today.

I have a 4tb nvme cache. I do wonder if its worth while getting a smaller one for apps at some point. I am not having any problems though so will probably leave as is for now. Over engineered is better as your less likely to be limited later on. Speaking of which if you have the space aim for a bigger case. If you need more drives down the road (and unraid you can add too anytime and any size) you won't have to transplant your whole nas.

 

[Showdown]

I have a 4tb nvme cache. I do wonder if its worth while getting a smaller one for apps at some point. I am not having any problems though so will probably leave as is for now. Over engineered is better as your less likely to be limited later on. Speaking of which if you have the space aim for a bigger case. If you need more drives down the road (and unraid you can add too anytime and any size) you won't have to transplant your whole nas.

Are you even getting close to filling that 4TB before Mover kicks in?

I'm almost 100% sold on the Define R5. The Define 7XL is nice but might be overkill for what I need it for at this point. And it's spendy for a case and doesn't come with all the trays whereas the R5 has them all I believe. That said, it is on sale right now...

 

[Hostile_18]

Are you even getting close to filling that 4TB before Mover kicks in?

I'm almost 100% sold on the Define R5. The Define 7XL is nice but might be overkill for what I need it for at this point. And it's spendy for a case and doesn't come with all the trays whereas the R5 has them all I believe. That said, it is on sale right now...

But we could be case bros! Lol. It comes with 6 trays IIRC. There must be a big difference in quality if the Define R5 has them all but it's not a case I've looked into. The foam sides are really good. It's a very premium case, I think it's one area youd be glad to have splashed out on. I almost went with the standard Define 7, but if I had I'd be running out of space, you never know the future!

Yeah I'm close to filling it all the time during this transition period of upgrading everything to remuxes. I'm downloading at 70% of a 1 gig line (130MBS) and it's just to say keeping it level. Parity data also gets transfered, it is a downside of Unraid compared to a Raid system (but the strengths far out weigh it IMO). After I'm done I'll never be filling my download drive as it will be just the odd film or show here and there. The max a UHD tv show can be is something like Game of Thrones which is just under 2TB. A typical tv show in 1080p remux quality is between 400-1tb. My mover moves every night at 1am.

 

[Showdown]

But we could be case bros! Lol. It comes with 6 trays IIRC. There must be a big difference in quality if the Define R5 has them all but it's not a case I've looked into. The foam sides are really good. It's a very premium case, I think it's one area youd be glad to have splashed out on. I almost went with the standard Define 7, but if I had I'd be running out of space, you never know the future!

Yeah I'm close to filling it all the time during this transition period of upgrading everything to remuxes. I'm downloading at 70% of a 1 gig line (130MBS) and it's just to say keeping it level. Parity data also gets transfered, it is a downside of Unraid compared to a Raid system (but the strengths far out weigh it IMO). After I'm done I'll never be filling my download drive as it will be just the odd film or show here and there. The max a UHD tv show can be is something like Game of Thrones which is just under 2TB. A typical tv show in 1080p remux quality is between 400-1tb. My mover moves every night at 1am.

Holy jeez. Between 400 to 1TB for a 1080 remux? Ok maaaaaybe I do need to get that case since I'm probably gonna end up needing like 200TB now. I'll probably end up overbuying on that too. I only picked up half of what I needed today. I may do another quick scan tomorrow to see if there's anything else but the mobo I want wasn't on sale and the R5 wasn't either. And I'll be keeping an eye on serverpartdeals.com to see when their next sale is.

Oh, and dammit... I forgot I actually have to buy Unraid. Uuuuuuuugh....

 

[Hostile_18]

Holy jeez. Between 400 to 1TB for a 1080 remux? Ok maaaaaybe I do need to get that case since I'm probably gonna end up needing like 200TB now. I'll probably end up overbuying on that too. I only picked up half of what I needed today. I may do another quick scan tomorrow to see if there's anything else but the mobo I want wasn't on sale and the R5 wasn't either. And I'll be keeping an eye on serverpartdeals.com to see when their next sale is.

Oh, and dammit... I forgot I actually have to buy Unraid. Uuuuuuuugh....

Well that's for all seasons/episodes. Honestly though a Remux is just a luxory nice to have. It's 4 times the file size for 10-15% better picture about maybe 30% better audio. The difference between a 3.5gb movie and a 30gb movie to my eyes and system is about +15% overall. Of course by not involving an encoding group your getting a consistent experience across the board which I like. I guess you've got to decide if you want quality or quantity. But honestly quantity is still really high quality (a good encode from a blu ray source is miles better than the streaming version 9 times out of 10).

All Seven seasons of Justified with the files untouched from the Blu Ray are 633gigs. A really good encode where its hard to tell the difference I'd say your looking at 150-200gigs. Part of the fun is trying all these file sizes out and seeing what works for you.

 

[Tapped]

Setup several UPS's and at least from my experience you're never using one of these to really run your system in the event of a power outage but more or less give yourself the ability to gracefully shut down your system prior to a instant outage. Maybe it's changed over the years but that's always been the basis for how UPS's were used where I worked.

Yeah that's what I've gathered so far, I didn't mean something that would keep things up for hours but rather keep a low wattage draw (sub 100W) online for 20-30 minutes to cover a very short blackout and allow for a graceful shutdown if things last a bit longer in addition to protection from brown outs.

 

[Hostile_18]

I was looking at encodes of films after going over the benefits vs negatives. The key for me is getting the consistency, and that largely comes down to how well I can tweak the grab algorithm. I think a close enough to transparent encode can come in at half the size if done by a Trash Guides approved group.

Its tempting. I'm going to have a think if my movies should be 30gb remux's or 15gb encodes.

 

[Showdown]

Well after a few beers I was compelled to order a case and mobo. I did get the Define 7 XL. Only because it was on sale and was having anxiety about it going back to regular price.

 

[Hostile_18]

Well after a few beers I was compelled to order a case and mobo. I did get the Define 7 XL. Only because it was on sale and was having anxiety about it going back to regular price.

You won't regret that case mate. It's the one thing you interact with the most. It can hold up around 20-22 drives, which is pretty insane. I'm installing two of my drives I ordered today, so I'll post some photos later. What parts do you need to get now?

 

[Hostile_18]

@Showdown Installed my two new drives today. Here's my setup;

 

[IrishWhiskey]

I have a Minisforum NAB6 which I've recently installed Proxmox on as a VM manager. I then have a VM set up for OpenWRT which I use as my main router.

I've purchased a 4 bay USB HDD enclosure that I intend to connect to the NAB6 and set up some kind of NAS software as a VM connected to the external storage bays. I've purchased 2 x 12tb Iron Wolf drives I think. I also intend to set up another VM running a Plex server most likely.

My dilemma is trying to figure out which NAS software to go for. I was originally going to go with TrueNAS Core and then set up the drives in a RAID1 config with mirroring so that the drives are essentially copies of each other in the event of a drive failure I don't lose my data. Downside being that I basically half by total storage amount for redundancy.

Another option I was thinking of was OpenMediaVault which seems to have a bunch of different file system options, not just ZFS the way TrueNAS works, although an option for ZFS exists as a plugin.

I'm wondering if with an OMV set up I could not use ZFS or any RAID at all but instead set up scheduled backups or something for important folders. For example important documents, photos or rare movie/tv shows etc... while the majority of other stuff is just "ok" to lose.

I imagine this would give me more total storage (although not exactly sure how I would set this up...partitions?) but maybe the speed would be a lot less than ZFS if I was to use just ext4 or something. I suppose the biggest speed issue would be turning off RAID?

I guess I'm looking for suggestions, my USB enclosure can take up for 4 x 2.5/3.5 drives so I would like to expand in the future and it sounds like ZFS/TrueNAS maybe makes that an issue.

Any advice would be appreciated.