I have two servers/mini lab / whatever you want to call em. Ones running unraid and is my main server Frankensteined from an old mini itx mobo off of ebay with an Intel quicksync capable cpu. And the others a $80 Lenovo m93p that I just installed Ubuntu server + casa os to mess around with it.

Not sure how popular of an opinion this is these days, but unraid is dead simple to use. It’s not free, and I think they changed their licensing since I got it, but damn is it nice. Just go to the app store, pick out what you want, fill out a form for ports and such and ban, docker containers spin up with everything you need.

If you’re hosting plex or jellyfin I’d recommend an old Intel processor with quicksync. I paid like 200 for my pc on ebay gutted it and put it in a bigger case for more hard drives. Runs 4k videos like a champ with no GPU installed.

Good news is that it’s slated to go stable some time this year iirc.

Probably one of the higher end models?

To be honest, I’ll be forever dubious of new products that seem to be in every other YouTube video. I returned this one after a day or two of troubleshooting. It also didn’t support openwrt if I recall correctly.

Thanks, this has been added to unraids community app store BTW so hopefully you get a good uptick in users from there.

I’d stay away from that particular one. We ui was slow af and whenever wireguard connected it crawled to a stop.

Immich but it has a lot of breaking changes, good news is that going stable is on their road map for this year. They also joined FUTO.

As an alternative, Unraid. While it’s paid, it strips away a lot of the hassle you mentioned in your post. Has a built in shop where you just click, set up ports/shares and docker containers just spin up for you.

While I’m not a huge fan of their recent subscription model change, I do love their OS (I got I’m still grandfathered into the pre-existing perpetual license.

I wonder if something like hoarder might suit your needs and you can filter purchased based on tags

Well that kinda sucks hopefully you had time to replace/repair without data loss.

Thanks for the info. How long did the failing drives last and how was the replacement process (warranty not the nas replacement).

Also these were from gohardrives right?

For 1k you can build a beast.

Just throwing out an option if you aren’t aware, gohardrives on ebay and on their site sell used Hdds. 10Tb for $80. The catch is they’ve been used in data centers for 5 years. The company will guarantee the drives for an addition 5 years and it could save you a lot of money depending on how much you want to risk it. I went with 3, one being a parity drive in case other goes bad.

I use it to manage my subdomains, something like notes.mywebsite.com would point at my trillium instance while photos.mywebsite.com would point at my my immich container it has more uses but that’s my extent. I just have an instance of a cloud flare dns updater keeping my domain in sync with my ip so I don’t have to do that manually when it changes.

So in my scenario cloud flare is just part of my setup.

I wish I could’ve like next cloud more, but it seemed bloated as all hell and was slow regardless of what machine I tried running it on :(. I might give it another go one day.

If it’s a static site, you can host that anywhere for free on the big cloud providers, aws has s3 storage, Microsoft has blobs, github has pages, all which can be configured to run a site well under the paid tiers.

Trillium although I wish it has multiple users on the same instance, other than that it’s amazing and suits my needs.

Gohardrive has those 10tb for under $90, they’ve been used for like 5 years but if it’s non essential data they should last a long time and might be a good option.

I like plex better but damn is it bloated, had to take a almost an hour digging through settings to turn all those plex features off. Now it feels more back to basics.

Not sure but back in the day you could just install custom channels though their portal. A lot of them got taken down all the time because we’ll they were streaming free shit.