This is how I do it. I have all my media on a raid 5 tho. Broken hdds are unavoidable in the long run, so I want protection for that. If something goes sideways at rebuilding, so be it. Most of the movies and shows I’m wondering what I save them for anyways. My music collection is worth more to me and backed up properly. Same goes for my personal stuff.

I like that it adds everything into one post instead of replying a dozen times. Good work.

Wait, isn’t a pcie sata card a HBA by design?

Immich works great, even though it is still under heavy development. Gets updated almost weekly with new features and improvements.

Check their documentation, should be all there you need.