On 15Mar2021 17:54, Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >I installed TrueNAS on an old system (along with a ton of disk >space), it isn't as familiar as fedora, but it seems to work very well >and you get used to it after a while. Been putting all my videos >on it and running a Plex server in a jail. Our home NAS is also our local Ubuntu server (pick whatever distro you like). It's got a pair (well, 2 pairs) of big drives in RAID-1 - there live our media and other large things. It shares via NFS and SMB/CIFS. I do recommend, if you have the $s, to RAID your storage - it gets you redundancy on drive failure. While this means things stay up of you lose a single drive, more importantly it means you don't need to restore from backup after you lose a single drive; that is a huge boon. We like RAID-1 because either drive is standalone. Any can be dropped into a cradle or other machine without the RAID for recovery. We just use the md RAID stuff, no LVM etc. Our machine is an HP Proliant G8 - cheap, 4 3.5" SATA drive bays (not hot swap alas), a SSD up the top for /home and swap, and the OS on an SD card on the mainboard. How I wish we could still buy them. Plex: I keep toying with plex. I find it very frustrating. a) you need a Plex account b) it infers metadata (movie names, what have you) from filenames, which forces a particular naming scheme on you. A schema I hate. I have a whole script to make a parallel Plex link tree for that reason. c) No decent way to add (or present) better metadata. Once there were plugins but these days they seem unsupported. I've got metadata, but the best I can do is plex friendly filenames. I'd love to hear about your setup. We still play media on our PVR, which has the server's media tree NFS mounted on it. Cheers, Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
