On Tue, 2021-03-16 at 19:04 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 15Mar2021 17:54, Tom Horsley <horsley1...@gmail.com> 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.
+1 I had a NAS (Iomega) for many years. Over time I had to replace both Seagate hard drives with WD units and lost nothing. The NAS itself finally died a few months ago after about 10 years service, and after connecting the drives via a USB dock Fedora immediately recognised them as RAID-1. I'm toying with the idea of replacing the MD RAID with BTRFS RAID, given that it's now supported in Fedora, but haven't decided yet. > 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 use Plex and also have a script to rename media files. Trouble is that if you do that it interferes with Plex's ability to find online subtitles, so I've essentially stopped doing it. I guess I could use a parallel link tree, but I can't really be bothered. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org 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@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
