My one and only Pi is exclusively for piracy. Qbittorrent, VPN, Radarr, Sonarr, Lidarr, Prowlarr. My NAS does everything else. If my Pi died spontaneously, it’d be annoying but not devastating. I’ve been thinking about cloning the SD card so if/when it dies, I can just plug in a new one.

If your Synology NAS is in Raid, up-sizing your drives is dead simple.

Pop out one of your current, smaller drives. Pop in a new, bigger drive. Wait for Disk Station to migrate data over to the new drive (note that this can literally take days depending how much data there is). Then do the same with the next old, small drive and the next one until all old, small drives are replaced with new, big ones.

This will work as long as your current drives are not like 24 TB or whatever the upper limit is these days. In that case, you need more bays.

After this is done, move all the data from your externals onto your Synology NAS.

For what it’s worth, they’re dropping the branded drive requirement https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/synology-caves-walks-back-some-drive-restrictions-on-upcoming-nas-models/

Are there any security concerns that this is a Chinese company?

Does it do RAID?

I’m in a similar situation with my 218+ so I’m interested to hear some answers. It’s still running great though so I don’t need to replace it soon but I like planning ahead

I don’t even know what a reverse proxy is

I make the account for them. Then I log in as them and set it up so they only see my server. Then I send them the credentials and have them login

Does it work on a smart tv or roku or whatever?

Jellyfin is hardly a no-brainer. I set it up out of curiosity a few weeks ago and my first question was how do I give access to my friends and family. So I searched, and all of the results were talking about setting up a VPN or a reverse proxy or whatever. Man, I just want to tell my mom “install this app on your tv and log in”, which is exactly what Plex does.

I get that Plex is enshittifying, but pretending Jellyfin is a drop-in replacement is delusional.

Dude how the hell am I supposed to walk my mom through setting up tailscale on her Roku?

And what if you have multiple friends all sharing each others libraries?

This is not a feasible solution let alone a “very easy” one.

But why can I “just install a program” on my windows machine or on my phone and it is that easy?

Obsidian and it syncs to my home server

I didn’t say it was, I’m just answering the dude’s question

Grayjay

Right. I mean, I looked into this a few years ago when I set it up and just accepted my fate

You should definitely set up pihole but I don’t think it’ll block ads on streaming apps unless I’m wrong and someone can point me to something that explains how I can set that up.

I have a Synology NAS, and while their Synology Photos is really good, it’s no match for Google Photos. It’s not their fault though, any self-hosted solution is going to be harder to share photos and do collaborative albums and such. And Google Photos image and face recognition is just not matched. I backup my entire photo library to Synology Photos but most of them are also in Google Photos for ease of access and sharing.