Storage Questions - At a crossroads
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UnfriendlyCanuck · 2023-12-18 14:26

I've been migrating off tower PCs to smaller UFF PCs which has been
great from a power/space perspective.  The last thing I'm working on
is what to do for storage.  I'd like to move my Plex server to a
docker container but obviously I need a lot more storage than a UFF
can accommodate.

I had a couple of ideas:

* Turn the Windows Plex PC, which houses all the drives, into
*something* else.  Not sure what that something could be?  TrueNAS?
Install Ubuntu on the box, use Plex as a container with the existing
drives and present the drives to the network via NFS/SMB for other
PCs?

* Get a USB enclosure and attach it to one of the UFF PCs and do the
same as above

* Bit the bullet and get a NAS of some kind

I don't really want to raid the disks together.  I'm not storing
anything super important, and any docker data I'll back up off site.

What is the community doing for this? What is the latest and greatest
thats out there or something I've been missing?

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DasGloi · 2023-12-18 15:25

If you already have a PC, i would turn it into a proxmox ve or unraid
mashine, with all the storage. Presenting the storage internally to a
plex Container on proxmox or Something similar on unraid, i dont have
much expirience with that.
Thats my 2cents.

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Square_Lawfulness_33 · 2023-12-19 00:16

I connected a four bay DAS to a 4x4 mini PC, type-c connection. Also,
to save time I'm using samba in a docker container which cuts down on
the config process. My setup is mergerfs + snapraid with all services
running in a docker container and the containers are managed by
dockge, witch is a stack manager that saves compose files to actual
text files.