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?
Thankfully, we never lost data, but we have had the controller die a few times through the years on a few servers before. Thankfully we had great support and the part was same day delivered to us to replace and the 2nd time was a Dell server which we also get the part same day and a tech to come replace it for us.
We avoided buying servers with this going forward. At this point, we really only have VM’s and only a handful of physical servers anymore, so it’s not even a concern.
I read online that the controller failure is a thing and not that uncommon. I really don’t want to rely on HP hardware tbh.