Hello, I managed to get my hands on a second hand Proliant HPE server that I want to turn into a media server for myself (possibly family too).
I also have a bunch of drivers lying around in all different sizes. I want a good balance of security, backup and flexibility for the future. So hear my plan out:
- Running Ubuntu server LTS on SAS 600gb disks (now it’s in raid5 array with 3 identical disks but I probably want to change that and take out some disks from it for my data)
- hardware raid 0 on the various single disks (with HPE smart array)
- mergerfs and snapraid for a “raid” and backup (I read some information about it and I think for my use is the best option)
- Headscale VPN (basically Foss tailscale implementation) for remote connection and mesh network
- Docker with all apps
I’m no expert on servers or RAIDs or HPE. What do you think? I’m mostly worried about the hardware raid 0 + Snapraid, is it doable?
With all these different disk sizes, maybe “Unraid” is for you? I don’t really know it, just guessing.
Mmm I personally rather avoid closed source software if I can. Afaik unraid is a whole os system that does all the work, so I also rather have different tools that do well their job than 1-in-all system. Decentralisation is always king. Plus I’m okay with not having a real time redundancy but just an easy snapshot system with Snapraid.