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instructions unclear, put entire homelab into a single consumer pc server with mismatched ram and a single off-brand power supply and no battery backup.

If you run everything on a single PI, at least take regular backups so you can image a new SD card quickly when needed and get back up and running within a few minutes.

I used to run pretty much everything on 3 pis, but now just have a single one left that runs HAOS+Nodered+a secondary DNS (because you should always run two separate DNS servers so you can update one at a time without downtime), that gets backed up daily to the main server if a card dies and also keeps a local backup on its SD card for the odd rollback if the server is down, plus I have a spare SD taped to it ready to go with an older image but one that would be able to boot and pull the latest backup from another source, my main server is a purpose built storage and compute server that runs all the heavy stuff, then there’s a couple of N95 mini PCs that run proxmox for small tasks and general homelabbery.

you could have one plex master server accessing multiple storage servers over SMB/NFS without much hassle, that allows combined libraries and more or less seamless access if the network and connection between servers is up to scratch as it would require reasonably high bandwidth, but multiple separate servers is a bit of a pain as you cant easily combine them and you would have to have split libraries AFAIK.

Adapt more of the books you cowards!

the radxa penta is a JMB585 connected with pcie gen3x1.

They do overheat though, might need a heatsink and some ZFS tuning.

They still push their exclusive features and services in the UI’s pretty hard, but I’m OK with that while they are making moves like this, and letting you have third party cameras mixed into their ecosystem reasonably easily.

Very happy to see this, I thought they were going to be pulling away from self-hostable and more flexible solutions a few years back when they stopped developing things like Unifi Video, but they seem to have made many positive movements towards openness, true ownership and self-hostability lately.

Honestly, after watching both animes and playing through both games several times, I prefer SG0 anime too but as far as the VN goes I think I prefer the original there.

I love the story arc of SG0, but in the game makes it too easy to hit the bad endings and cut the whole story really short. They did it very well in the anime.

The ending of SG0… after the credits. so satisfying.

Yea, JF is getting mature enough for more people to transition.

I’ve been running it side by side with Plex for about 2 years now, and have a couple of clients (and all of my personal use) on JF, but a few users either cant run JF directly on their hardware (and don’t want to cast every time) or they are older and would struggle to learn a new app without some hands on practice with it.

The newest Plex UI update on some devices is causing some problems so I think I’ll have a few more users moving to JF in the near future.

It’s a bit of a ram hog compared to plex but that’s not a major issue.

unraid is great but on a little 4 bay mini nas with limited expandability you don’t get much advantage for the money, it’s better for larger arrays and lots of mixed disk sizes, and on systems where you can put in lots of SSDs to make a decently fast caching setup die to unraid slower non-striped array architecture.

On a 4 bay mini-NAS I’d go with the free truenas option and just make it a RaidZ1 of 4 disks.

For a beginner, OMV might be simpler, and for paid options, HexOS is probably more beginner friendly than raw TrueNas.

A free alternative to Unraid is Snapraid, but thats more of a roll-your-own solution, not an OS you can just install.

There’s something about slice of life as a genre in general.

I guess its a sort of melancholy rose-tinted look at something a lot of people either missed out on entirely during our school years, or that we once had but lost as we all grew up and grew apart.

Hibike! Euphonium (the whole series, movies and the perfect masterpiece Liz and the Blue Bird) hits that for me as well, I was never a band kid, but I feel like it’s 100% relatable regardless. Do it Yourself was the same, that was a great little show.

jellyfin was a fork of emby anyway, its core framework is solid.

Emby has more of the plex-like polish, but it is more closed source than I would prefer to trust with my media, so I get by with Jellyfin. It works more than well enough fro my in-home media streaming and I still run plex for my remote users as I bought a plex pass way back at the start and I’m going to use it until I simply cant anymore… which seems to be rapidly approaching.

I never used it, but it was a popular third party add-on before the feature was integrated.

I’ve had a Lifetime PlexPass since 2013, so I’ve definitely had my moneys worth and then some, but for the last 2 years I’ve been dual wielding Jellyfin and watching it slowly get to the point where I can move over entirely.

I’m 100% Jellyfin now for my personal playback at home, and will be transitioning users over to it as soon as it gets a few more user management features for remote users.

I’m just now realising that Nukumizu’s name has mizu (water) in it, and looking up the nuku part can mean “to extract” … and they guy’s hobby is water

can you run something like iperf3 or openspeedtest between the server and client to prove its a network throughput issue?

do you have a network switch you can add to avoid switching through your router (if it is indeed bad?)

Have you ensured you arent unknowingly using wifi at either end?

Thanks for the insightful and helpful comment.

Unraid is great and I have been using it for over a decade now, but a paid OS on a 2bay nas seems excessive

I use Plexamp for that, Jellyfin does it too. You can assign libraries per user quite easily.

So for 3 users you might have 4 libraries, one per user then a shared library they all have access to.

the 2.5" size of disks are now mostly direct USB controller disks rather than sata adapters internally.

3.5" disks are still SATA as far as i’ve seen but the actual sku’s of the disks are often the lower grades. like you will get a disk that looks like another good disk but with only 64mb of dram instead of 256 on the one you would buy as a bare internal drive for example so they can end up a bit slower. and warranties are usually void.

Used to be my main source of disks, but these days there are better ways and it is easier to know exactly what you are getting.