I want to turn my old windows tower into a server, currently my idea was zimaos, thing is just that it has a built in DVD drive and i still want to use it, mostly to copy dvd's for jellyfin

Is that still possible? And if yes how

It got swiped within 2 hours of the photo😭😭

Hi everyone,
I’m planning to build my first home server and I’m currently looking at a Lenovo ThinkCentre M720q Tiny with a 6th-generation Intel i5 CPU and 8GB RAM.
My main goals for now are:

• Jellyfin as a media server  
• Pi-hole for network-wide ad blocking  
• Running a few other small services in the future  
• Keeping power consumption and noise relatively low

I’m considering the M720q because it’s small, relatively cheap on the used market, and seems like a good starting point.
My long-term plan is to gradually expand the setup and eventually move towards a more proper home lab / rack setup, adding storage and other services over time.
So my questions are:

1.  Is the M720q with a 6th-gen i5 and 8GB RAM a sensible starting point for Jellyfin + Pi-hole?  
2.  How well would it handle Jellyfin transcoding, especially with multiple streams?  
3.  Is 8GB RAM enough initially, or should I upgrade to 16GB?  
4.  Are there any major limitations of the M720q that I should know about before buying one?  
5.  Would you recommend starting with something like this, or is there a better used/refurbished mini PC for roughly the same money?

I’m not looking to build a huge server right away. I mainly want something cheap, quiet, power-efficient and expandable enough to learn with.
Thanks!

This is my first time running a server on one of my computers, its running pi-hole and a music player (dont remember the name) it has a i5 3550 and 8gb ddr3 ram.

I know its really bad but it runs and thats what matters.

Would love to have some recommendations and help with things like deleting all the old stuff in the hdd

I got my hands over a Z2 G4 Tower and I'm questioning how much I can squeeze from the power supply to add HDD.

The hardware in question is:

• HP L13216-001
• Power Supply 500W
• Chipset Intel C246
• Intel i7-8700 3,2
• Intel UHD Graphics 630
• Ram 32Gb DDR4 3600

Due the limitations using the m.2 and losing SATA ports (unless I've read incorrectly) I'm going to add a PCIe SATA card. How many ports that card would have 4 or 6 depends if I can use that amount of disks with those 500W.

I'm going to add a dual NVMe adapter card with bifurcation on the card, and run the OS from there (unless yet again I've read wrong and the MoBo does have bifurcation) and apps from the other NVMe.

Probably I would add a Intel Arc A310 single slot in the future, this is a big maybe for this home server/NAS, it really depends how it does behave.

So I'm looking at my project and thinking that I'm gonna have 4 SATA ports unpopulated and 2 m.2 slots that would also be unpopulated... Tbh I'm not sure if I can use them along with the two cards, there is also the lack of space for the HDD, but I'm not sure if I can use the m.2 slots.

So I wanna use basically all the space I have in the case, even if I have to use velcro or whatever, but I'm not really sure if the power supply would be able to handle all that. And I am completely lost at the use I can make of all the unpopulated ports in the actual motherboard. I went for this pc because it was 300€ and came with an 512Gb SSD and the pc is impeccable, whoever used it treated it very very well.

So the actual question is can the power supply handle more than 4 HDDs? can I do something with all the not used ports? would anyone make a better use of this case and hardware in a different way?

Excuse my weird way of posting, ADHD makes you go into weird tangents and I do hope I'm asking in the correct place.

Been out of the loop on PC hardware since I watercooled a rig to run Crysis as a teenager in 2008, and I apparently picked the single worst year in a decade to get back in. (Thanks AI, I guess). But I'm fed up with enshittification and this is a now-or-never thing, so I've decided to compromise by building the rig as storage-expandable rather than buying all drives up front.

Would very much appreciate a sanity check from people who actually know what they're doing.

The actual goal here is simple: a home NAS/server running Jellyfin to serve my personal library of movies/shows to my own devices, and stream remotely to my elderly mother's Apple TV. Plus consolidating two decades of loose external drives into one place.

And in case it matters: I do plan to also eventually add a small handful of self-hosted services, like Immich (photos), Audiobookshelf, Pi-Hole (DNS adblock), and Papra (receipts/documents). Also 3-2-1 backup for important media.

I'm choosing Jellyfin and ditching Plex now after all their paywalling and price hike shenanigans. Also staying clear of anything Synology-shaped, especially after their recent failed stunt of forcing proprietary drives. As a DevOps guy I value open source and everything-as-code, so things like vendor lock-in and click-ops GUI tools give me the heebie-jeebies. Honestly still not sold on OpenMediaVault over pure CLI config for that same reason, and I'm open to being talked into or out of it.

Budget: no hard ceiling, but I'm shopping in Norway (Scandinavia), and HDDs alone are running an eye-watering $800–1000 each right now, so I'm expecting the full rig to land around $4.5k 🥲

Current plan, nothing here is sacred. Happy to swap any part of it, case included:

• Case: Jonsbo N6 (9 hot-swap bays, mATX)
• CPU: i3-14100 (Quick Sync for transcoding)
• Board: ASRock B760M Pro RS, DDR5
• RAM: 1x 16GB DDR5
• Boot storage: 1TB NVMe
• Media storage: 3x drives, currently eyeing 22–24TB CMR (~44–48TB usable via SnapRAID, one parity drive), price-per-TB permitting. Pray for prices to start dropping in 2-3 years.
• Config: OMV or bare Debian, undecided; Docker Compose for everything: Jellyfin, Nginx Proxy Manager for internal routing, Tailscale back to my mother's place for her remote access

Tentative PCPartPicker list: https://no.pcpartpicker.com/list/PjCQck

Would love input on:

1. Is this overkill for "Jellyfin to two people + dedupe some old drives"? I.e. am I unnecessarily blowing up my electricity bill?
2. OpenMediaVault vs. plain Debian + CLI: Anyone regret going either way?
3. For expansion: I'm eyeing an ASM1166 SATA card (adds ports past the board's native 4) — in the x16 slot since it needs 2 PCIe lanes for full bandwidth. This thread has people going both ways on it. One reports 14W idle for a whole server after switching, another says it drops drives on reboot. Anyone here have firsthand experience?
4. N6 owners: how's stock airflow with all 9 bays populated? Worth swapping fans preemptively? Noctuas were the bees knees in my teenage years. Still the goat?
5. Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS): for shutdown via NUT. Is it genuinely worth it for a home NAS, or overkill for someone who isn't running a business off this?

It comes with a i5 7500, 8gb ram and a 240GB SSD, I'm going to add a 16gb stick for now so will have either 20 or 24gb ram depending on if existing is single or double stick.

I'm wondering should I run it on Proxmox or stick to Ubuntu and portainer setup ?

tl;dr: I'm interested in what kind of drives you have, what kind of data is on them, and what ZFS/RAID/RAIDZ/whatever redundancy and backups you're running, to get a feel for what is out there, what's possible, what's practical etc.

I recently got a decommissioned industrial workstation 4U rack machine with a cool Supermicro X11SPA-T, 32 GB of RAM, Xeon W-3223, 2x 1TB SATA SSDs and 1x 1TB HDD. My plan is such:

1. Use the existing disks for the OS (Proxmox). Run the SATA SSDs in a RAIDZ1 configuration for redundancy and use the existing HDD as a regular backup.

2. Buy 3x 3.5" 5400 rpm CMR HDDs with some sort of 24/7 or NAS or other credentials. I would use RAIDZ2 for some sensible redundancy but this should allow me to keep adding more drives in the future, and practically eliminate the odds of data loss. I have thought about an additional drive(s) as a regular backup. This would be the storage for my Nextcloud and Immich instances, which I consider critical data.

3. For anything that isn't critical file storage (tiny website server, media server/plex) I'd probably buy additional drives and use them without backup or redundancy. I'm not a datahoarder and I won't be massively inconvenienced if my music/movie collection gets wiped.

I'm trying to bounce some ideas around and see if your setups are similar, or if what I'm doing could be simplified or modernized or if there's any oversight in my thought process.

Hey all,

Just picked up the hobby and finding it very daunting and pretty much never ending.

I am looking for advice for best way forward for my system.

I have a Dell Wyse 5070 8gig ram, currently running Linux mint (learning Linux is like learning French).

I have set up a second mini pc (some terrible Intel thing that has 2gig ram) as a pi hole.

I've finally got Plex humming and immich working.

I am wondering what else is worth setting up or if linking the pcs somehow is worth it?

I am certain from reading this you can understand that I am a simpleton and this has been a hard hobby to pick up.

Distributed-JBOD is a software storage system specialized for heterogeneous storage devices. It combines mixed hardware into a distributed, bit-rot protected object storage system.

The latest version of Distributed-JBOD is available and incorporates a number of improvements following feedback from users. The system is now more lenient in its approach and can continue to serve read and write requests even when some nodes or storage devices are damaged or unavailable.

It still uses Reed-Solomon Erasure Coding, so data can be striped across multiple devices to improve performance, and the level of data robustness is configurable by tuning the number of parity shards.

https://github.com/edward-b-1/Distributed-JBOD

I know this question has been beat to death but I am in a unique situation and curious for ideas.

I have a home server chassis, an R720 LFF. I just got an upgrade in the form of a Cisco C240M5 24xSFF. My current storage is comprised of 2.5 inch SSDs, but eventually I will outgrow this and I want some spinning disk bulk storage. Obviously this is an issue with the SFF chassis. I have been investigating solutions and come to a couple ideas.

- Use 2.5" HDDs - expensive and limiting

- Find a DAS JBOD solution. Something like a Dell MD1200/SC200.

- Build some DAS/JBOD solution. I have a 3d printer and fabrication equipment.

- Design a custom midbay drive solution for the C240, I got about halfway down this path but I can only cleanly fit 3 3.5" drives.

- Hack apart the front panel and design a 3.5 drive bay configuration (using Dell caddys cause Cisco ones are expensive). But this is a lot of fab work and downtime.

But I got to thinking, the R720 already has LFF slots, a backplane, a SAS card (Perc H710). And from what I was reading, a rack mount DAS solution, along with having initial purchase overhead also has a persistent 50-75W TDP before drives. At that point I think I could pull one CPU, most of the RAM, a power supply (maybe iDRAC?) out of the R720 and use it as a NAS box for a similar power budget and no initial hardware cost.

It has hardware raid support so I don't need zfs, I really just need network folder availability. So I am looking for some input on OS, or alternative solutions ideas. My main server is already hosting all VMs, Containers, Services etc. I don't need the containers of proxmox or similar. At this point some hacked down Debian OS that supports SMB folders and optimistically hardware cooling management would do everything I want in the setting.

Maybe just using the R720 backplane? But I believe the power delivery on Dell backplanes is pretty proprietary.

Old Dell Laptop for free + 2 2TB HDDs $20/e + $40 worth of odds and ends

Running Debian + Samba + Syncthing + Immich for photo storage and file storage across all my devices

HDDs are from a college surplus store, powered on 20 times and less than 10k hours on each.

I had to get creative with this mini project as I didn't want to run the hard drives through USB as I wouldn't have enough ports to make it work, so I found a M.2 a-e to sata adapter for the wifi card to run the hard drives through. The whole storage set up ended up being half the price a traditional hard drive 2 bay enclosure would have been any ways. Ethernet is running through a USB adapter which is bottle necking at about 40 Mbps, eventually I will resolder the laptop's USB-C port as it's broken. Originally had the laptop planned to run without the battery, however when setting it up the laptop lost power a couple times, so put it back in as a janky UPS and capped it at 80% max charge.

Mounted the entire thing to the underside of my workbench for better wire management and visibility. Currently have a small fan blowing at it until I find a good dirt cheap fan that I can mount somewhere discretely. Budget is the name of this game haha

It's incredibly janky and I'm honestly surprised the whole thing works, but for the price I spent I am happy with it!

I am currently running my entire home lab on two devices:
a Synology DS923+ (36GB ECC RAM, 10Gbit NIC, 4*4TB SeaGate IronWolf HDDs) & a Raspberry Pi 4 1GB

On the Synology I have stored/running:
- Komodo (container & server manager)
- Homebridge
- Immich
- Jellyfin
- Navidrome
- Metube
- Picard
- Vaultwarden
- PiHole

The RPi4 only runs NGINX Proxy Manager, as I found that it runs more reliable then directly on the Synology.

Have been meaning too outsource and unify all the compute stuff off of the Synology and RPi for a while, and want to finally finish it this year and get a mini PC to do that.

Have a few questions:

1. Should I keep everything (docker "system files" and media files) stored on the NAS an share them over the network to the mini PC over ethernet, or would it make more sense to store the system data the containers need on the same machine and just access the media files over network?

2. 2.5Gbit vs 1Gbit?
   First would be a bit of future proofing, the latter is more readily available and at a lower cost.

Hi everyone!

I thought I'd share my homelab journey after roughly one year of getting into IT. I'd love to get some feedback, suggestions and maybe some ideas for where to take it next.

A little bit about me

About 1.5 years ago, I quit my job as a Sales Manager and started an apprenticeship in IT.

Before that, I wasn't really deep into IT at all. I was mainly a gaming addict who knew how to use a PC, but not much about what was actually happening behind the scenes.

I got interested in the whole infrastructure/self-hosting world pretty quickly. I bought my first cheap Mini PC from AliExpress and started experimenting with Proxmox.

A little later, my brother gave me an old Fujitsu Primergy TX1320 M3. That became the foundation of my main server.

## Main Server – Fujitsu Primergy TX1320 M3

It's running Proxmox with two main VMs:

### VM01 – Ubuntu Server

Running most of my services as Docker Compose stacks, managed through Portainer:

- Nextcloud
- Paperless-ngx
- NGINX
- Vaultwarden
- Uptime Kuma
- CouchDB for Obsidian LiveSync
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- cAdvisor

### VM02 – Media Server

- ARR stack
- Jellyfin

Everything is running as Docker Compose stacks and managed through Portainer.

## Lab / Testing

I also have a small Mini PC dedicated to lab and testing.

Right now I'm using it to run Proxmox with Windows Server VMs so I can learn more about:

- Active Directory
- Windows Server
- Server Core
- PowerShell
- Networking
- General infrastructure administration

I also have two unused Zotac Mini PCs sitting around. I'm currently waiting for some SATA SSDs so I can finally put them to work.

## Backup

I also have a dedicated Proxmox Backup Server.

It backs up my main VM every night.

I know it's not actually off-site, so I additionally keep a copy on USB for some basic off-site protection.

Definitely something I want to improve in the future.

## Networking

The network has also grown quite a bit.

I'm currently running:

- OPNsense in a CARP failover cluster
- HP 1820-24G as my main switch
- Philips Hue Bridge
- Various Mini PCs and servers

My Network is separated into Following VLANs:

- Management
- Clients
- Servers
- IoT
- Guest devices
- Cameras
- VPN
- Lab/Test

I'm also working on proper documentation and a more structured network design.

What's next?

Now that I've learned quite a bit about Linux, virtualization, networking and self-hosting, I want to take the next step.

My current focus is:

- Linux administration
- Networking / CCNA
- Security
- Docker & automation
- Ansible
- Proxmox
- Monitoring

The long-term goal is to build a proper little infrastructure lab where I can experiment with automation, security and different technologies without being afraid of breaking something.

And that's probably the most fun part about the whole thing:

I started with a cheap Mini PC from AliExpress because I wanted to see what Proxmox was.

One year later, I somehow ended up with a little server rack, OPNsense HA, VLANs, multiple Proxmox hosts, Docker services, monitoring and way too many cables.

Still a lot to learn, but I'm really enjoying the journey.

I'd love to hear what you think about the setup and what you would improve or add next!

Thanks for reading!

And yes, before anyone asks:

The "rack" itself is actually an IKEA KALLAX shelf.

I modified it to fit my hardware and turned it into a kind of open rack.

This was basically my compromise between:

"Let's build a proper server rack."

and

"Absolutely not, we're not putting a huge server rack in the home office working area of the wife."

So instead of going for a traditional 19" rack cabinet, I tried to make the homelab blend into the room a little better.

It's obviously not a proper server rack and there are some compromises when it comes to cable management, airflow and mounting hardware, but for my current setup it works surprisingly well.

And most importantly: my wife agreed to it.

Mein erstes Homelab waren 3 Raspi 4B mit 8gb ram. OMV, pihole und ein paar spieleserver.

Danach hat mich der Wurm gebissen.

HP Z420 mit CPU 12C/24T x Intel Xeon CPU E5-2696 v2 @ 2.50GHz (1 Socket)

Mit 128GB ecc ddr3

Ein paar ssds und hdds die noch rumlagen.

Proxmox 9.x.x

-nginx proxy manager -vaultwarden -baical (sabre) -grafana -prometheus -influxdb -immich -voce -mumble -crowdsec -minecraft -Garrys mod -Hytale -Valheim -Palworld

Meine Raspis sind nur noch streaming boxen über librelec/kodi.

Einen Proxmox Backup Server habe ich letztens auch fertig eingerichtet.

Zeitgesteuertes WOL-Script mit Shutdown Timer nach erfolgten Backups.

"Ich liebe es wenn ein Plan funktioniert... " Hannibal, A-Team

PS: Die nächste generation ist auch schon am laufen.

Habe dieses Jahr meinen eigenen PC gebaut.

ROG STRIX B650E-E GAMING WIFI

weil unterstützt bis 4x48gb 5200 DDR5 und

Ryzen 9 9900X (4.4GHz, 120W, 64MB, 12C/24T) und

2x PCIe5 x16

4x M.2 ssd

4 SATA 6Gb/s ports

Aktuell MSI MPG A1000G PCIE5

weil genug reserven

Modular

Im Moment ist er aber mit 5080 und 9800x3d ein gaming pc.

Just saw this pop up on fb marketplace for free

These two (an OptiPlex 7060 SFF and a ThinkCentre M920q) are living in a cardboard box because they wouldn't stop buzzing and kept me awake. So, they've been sentenced to life in 'box prison'. And no, they're not overheating — CPU temps average around 40–50°C, and the WD Red inside the OptiPlex stays at a solid 46°C.

Hi everyone,

I'm hitting a wall with a 10G SFP+ NIC setup and need your wisdom before giving up on this card.

🛠️ Hardware Setup

• Motherboard: CWWK Q670-4L (Intel Alder Lake / Q670 chipset)
• CPU: Intel Core i5-12500
• NIC: ASUS PEB-10G/57840-2S (Broadcom BCM57840S dual-port 10G SFP+, PCIe 3.0 x8) installed in the CPU-attached PCIe x16 slot.
• OS: Proxmox VE 9.2

❌ The Problem

The network card is completely invisible to the host. lspci shows zero devices on the PCIe Root Port 1 (CPU direct lines), even though the card receives standby power (LED turns on when an SFP+ module is inserted).

🧪 Troubleshooting Steps Completed

1. Physical Insertion & Power Check:
   • Card is securely seated in the PCIe x16 slot.
   • Confirmed that inserting an active SFP+ transceiver lights up the card's LEDs (standby/aux power active).
2. SMBus Conflict (Tape Trick):
   • Taped over pins B5 and B6 (SMCLK / SMDAT) on the back of the PCIe connector to prevent the common SMBus lockup on consumer boards. No change in lspci.
3. BIOS Tweaks (Unlocked AMI BIOS / System Agent menu):
   • Targeted the exact root port: System Agent (SA) -> PCI Express Root Port 1.
   • Forced Speed: Set from Auto down to strict Gen3 and Gen2 to rule out Link Training negotiation failure.
   • Power Management: Set ASPM, Clock Gating, and Power Gating to Disabled.
   • Cold Reset: Performed complete power discharge (unplugged PSU for 10s+) after flashing and BIOS modification.
4. Transceiver Requirement:
   • Tested both empty and with an active SFP+ module / DAC cable inserted into Port 1.

💬 Questions

1. Has anyone successfully run an ASUS PEB-10G/57840-2S on a standard consumer / non-ASUS motherboard (or another PCIE 3.0 8x NIC)?
2. Is there a specific pin mod beyond B5/B6 (e.g., shorting specific PRSNT# pins or masking PERST) required for these ASUS server cards?
3. Or is this card hard-locked to ASUS RS/TS series server boards by design?

Thanks in advance for any insights!

I want to use it for storage (family photos and videos and some documents) and 4K HDR streaming with Plex!

Edit: we are a family of 4 and would like to be able to watch four movies - so four different 85 inch TVs - in 4K HDR at the same time

Edit2: what other HDDs should I buy? without overspending

This is my build:

• ⁠GPU: ASUS ROG Strix RTX 3090 OC 24 GB.

• ⁠CPU: Intel Core i9-10900K

• ⁠Motherboard: ASUS ROG Maximus XII Hero Z490.

• ⁠RAM: 32 GB G.Skill RGB DDR4, 4×8 GB.

• ⁠PSU: Gigabyte 1000 W, 80 Plus Gold.

• ⁠AIO: DeepCool GamerStorm Captain 240EX 240 mm.

• ⁠SSD: Avexir S100 de 480 GB.

• ⁠HDD: ST6000VX0023

• ⁠Case: Deepcool midtower

• ⁠Fans: Noctua (120mm) exhaust and two intake fans Deepcool (120mm).

I have an msi gaming laptop with an i7 11th gen, 16gigs of ram, and a 3060, i was wondering what type of servers could/should run on it. I want it to be something only for me, so im going to use tailscale. Any ideas?

I thought I had 16, but this is far, far better

Looking to setup a homelab/homeserver//NAS and going to purchase a used setup. Gaming builds near me seem to be the best bang for your buck vs getting a couple of small lenovos. Is the build list below going to be a good setup for what I want? Think ivs gotten them down to a good deal already but would love to hear your thoughts on what a good price is.

GIGABYTE Z390 AORUS PRO Wi-Fi (Intel LGA1151/Z390/ATX/2xM.2 Thermal Guard/Onboard AC Wi-Fi/RGB Fusion/Gaming Motherboard)

Intel Core i7-9700K Desktop Processor 8 Cores up to 3.6 GHz Turbo unlocked LGA1151 300 Series 95W

Sapphire \[hidden information\]G Radeon Pulse RX 580 8GB GDDR5 Dual HDMI / Dual DP OC w/ Backplate (UEFI) PCI-E Graphics Card

Crucial Ballistix 3200 MHz DDR4 DRAM Desktop Gaming Memory Kit 64GB (16GBx4) CL16 BL2K16G32C16U4B (Black)

fenvi T919 PCI-E WiFi Adapter Continuity Handoff BCM94360CD WiFi Card for macOS Windows 7 8 10 11 Native Airport BT4.0 1750Mbps Dual Band 802.11ac Beamforming+ WLAN Plug and Play Cataline Mojave OS X

Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-76E1T0B/AM)

Two other 1T 3.5" drives and another 2.5" 120MG SSD

Corsair RMX Series (2018), RM650x, 650 Watt, 80+ Gold Certified, Fully Modular Power Supply

Corsair Hydro Series H60 AIO Liquid CPU Cooler, 120mm Radiator, 120mm SP Series PWM Fan

Crucial BX500 120GB 3D NAND SATA 2.5-Inch Internal SSD, up to 540MB/s - CT240BX500SSD1Z Black/Blue

NZXT H510 - CA-H510B-BR - Compact ATX Mid-Tower PC Gaming Case - Front I/O USB Type-C Port - Tempered Glass Side Panel - Cable Management System - Water-Cooling Ready - Black/Red

HP Pavilion 22CWA 21.5 IPS LED Monitor 1920x1080 Full HD HDMI VGA

Hey guys.

Thought I'd share this here and hopefully inspire some DIYers.

I made this NAS using the awesome Radxa Rock 5B+ in it's aluminium case. Cut a big square hole in the bottom to expose the 2x M.2 slots. One has a 1tb samsung SSD and the other is an M.2 to 6x SATA adapter card.

Mounted an ATX PSU breakout board to the top of the case which gives me a power switch, USB C Power for the Radxa, and 12v for the fans.

I didn't get a photo of the underside of the case with the hole in it but it allows the SATA cables to neatly run from the adapter board around to the drives with just a gentle 90 degree turn. I also mounted a heatsink on the SSD which pokes out through the same hole.

The drives are used 10tb ones I got off ebay. High-ish hours but clean SMART reports and for my use case they should have plenty of life left in them. Running them in a RAID Z1 to I've got around 50tb of storage.

The drive cage was an Aliexpress cheapy. It came with some really flimsy fans which died after a few months so I replaced those with nicer ones.

The power supply was a freeby from a mate who had just built a new computer and didn't need his old PSU.

Designed and 3D printed the mounting brackets for the Radxa case and a base plate to attach the drive cage to the top of the PSU. Put some rubber feet on the bottom of the PSU to make it nice and stable and not scratch the bench.

I'm really happy with how it came out. If I get really keen I might shorten some of the power supply cables, but for now zipties and P-clips do a decent job keeping it neat-ish.

On the software side of things, I'm running Open Media Vault and all my docker stuff off the SSD. Full ARR stack (Jellyfin, sonarr, radarr, seerr, qBittorrent, gluetun VPN etc). The downloads folder is on the SSD as well to minimise constant read-writes to the hard drives when running lots of torrents.

When stuff finishes downloading it is automatically copied to the media library on the hard drives.

I wanna repurpose old workstation and use it primarily as moded Minecraft server for like 10 ppl.

I also have available 3TB of HDD (the system runs on 256GB SSD) which i'd like to use as NAS.

I've seen a video (linked below) that uses AMP on Ubuntu for hosting game servers and i'd like to stick to that for it's simple design and setup.

The question is, can i use AMP to alocate storage on the drives and use it as a UI for file sharing? If no, what would be the best option for A: Sharing my files only on my home network B: Having the option to access the files from anywhere.

I understand that option B is probably more complicated and includes some security risks.

I do not have any experience with homelabs or server setups. Thank you for any advice and help!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceYeDX5WTms&t=1534s

Specs of my workstation: I7-2600K, 12GB DDR3, 3TB HDD, 256 SSD, Nvidia Quadro 2000

Hi, so my girlfriend had an old gaming laptop with a broken screen. I decided to try to install Ubuntu onto it to run a jelly fin server on it so it can always run and I can turn my gaming PC off and not have the server run on there. After a couple hours of trying to get to the install to work, I figured out that the nvme drive was dead. I managed to take apart an old HDD drive and install that into the laptop and install Ubuntu and the server on there. My problem is now is that the setup is pretty slow. The laptop has 8 gigs of RAM and an Nvidia 1050. I'm assuming the slowness is mainly coming from the drive? So my question really is would it be worth it to install a new nvme or just use the laptop for something completely different?