Just give them access to it now? There shouldn’t be any issue with it continuing to be available or a while if you should get hit by a bus.

primebuy looks like a ripoff of amazon, insight looks legit, but you’ll probably get what your order from either site

Anything in the Jellyfin logs?

You should consider opnsense instead of pfsense in any case.

What are you using for a drive controller?

Even the slowest SSD write speeds should be faster than an HDD, and those have been running systems perfectly fine for decades. I’ve never used enterprise SSDs (usually one little consumer SSD, or even USB, for boot/cache and a bunch of HDDs for storage) and I’ve never had a problem.

What kind of hardware are you using?

Why separate it? It’s part of the same stack. Radar downloads, Jellyfin plays.

Ebay. If you’re outside the US, you’ll probably be better off with a more local site.

I usually find the cheapest drives and buy multiple of those, but you should be able to assemble a RAID out of different disks, though you’ll be limited to the space of the smallest one in the mirror set.

Also make sure that your RAID systems supports this.

This is what I do, but with alma instead of debian.

Proxmox can run containers directly, but I haven’t tried it yet.

What exactly is not working? What is it doing/not doing, compared to what you are expecting it to do?

Or just start a new login shell.

See if there’s a cooling profile option in the BIOS. Maybe also run the Dell diagnostics. Might be something wrong with the fan tachometer.

Worst case, assuming the PWM is working properly, you could use a third-party application to control the fan speed.

As long as the laptop doesn’t go to sleep, yes.

I don’t think OP has backups.

Having one, the other, or both depends on how sure you need to be about recovery, and whether you care about it being available until recovery.

Definitely upgrade the RAM. Also get at least two drives in RAID or ZFS or something so you can tolerate a failure. And keep backups too, if you can’t afford to lose data.

Huh. Kind of surprised it supports up to four drives, but if that’s what it says, there you go. Shouldn’t be any risk of drawing too much current through the wire. At most the board or PSU would shut down.

Also, if you are putting more drives in, see if the BIOS lets you enable staggered spin-up, so that they aren’t all peaking at the same time.

If that’s the stock part, seems like it would be within spec. You can check the manual or detailed spec doc to be sure.

Reconsider how much of that 8tb really needs to be backed up. Thousands of pictures of your cat aren’t really going to be missed, and your Linux ISOs can be redownloaded.

I have never known RPM of a drive to affect its noise level. The fan(s) will be far more significant in noise level. Most drives run pretty quietly, though some can get noisy during I/O, like my HGST Ultrastar He6 drives.

Also, without knowing the model, I wouldn’t say they’re not made to run 24/7. But even on desktop drives, it’s rarely run time that kills them, it’s start-stop cycles. Everything will be fine, but one day you’ll shut it down and some drives won’t spin up. That’s why power outages can be deadly to an old server.

A more modern processor probably has better power efficiency. But this one should support features like turning off some of the cores or throttling down when not needed.

You could also see if you can get one with lower power consumption, like even the 6700T.

Right, a bit flip in ZFS cache shouldn’t cause that. But a bit flip in active memory could.

It certainly could. A bit-flip in a core part of the kernel could easily cause it to lock up, if an address is corrupted and it starts writing garbage over its code, or execution jumps to somewhere unexpected, or an instruction is changed from something reasonable to a halt.

Yes, most of those should trigger a blue screen or kernel panic, but that’s not guaranteed when you’re making completely random changes.

In memory?

The general public doesn’t hate McAfee that much, so I’d bet it’ll work. Heck, I work in IT and I didn’t even know about the rebrand (mostly because I engage with McAfee as little as possible).

Whichever one is better supported by the containers you want to run.

Huh, so it is. Right at the bottom of the main page, “built with [heart] by Namecheap”.

That’s not Seagate, that’s SanDisk (owned by Western Digital).

You probably won’t get the discount price for a transfer.

It wasn’t SSDs, it was regular spinning drives back around 2009.

The router says it’s reachable? Weird. I wonder if it’s a bug in the router then. Any firmware update available? You have tried just rebooting the router, right?

You could also script a reconnection on the laptop to happen every six hours or something.

You mean from the Internet? Put everything behind a VPN and you’re done.

I would not put Jellyfin on the Internet.

The only one the docs mention is SHIORI_DIR, which defaults to ${XDG_DATA_HOME}/shiori, so if you’re running it under different users then it’s already going to be different.

https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori#documentation

I assume you’re running it as a web app, in which case the docs cover that. Just run multiple instances on different ports and with different storage.

Looks like they provide an official docker container, too, so running it in docker should be very easy.

You need two Proxmox nodes for HA.

Virtual networking is also not a great idea in the homelab. It’s better if you do have HA, but even so, if you screw it up and break something in Proxmox, you’ll be without any network access to look for help online (except on your phone, so good luck retyping commands or transferring files).

Yes, but less portable. Harder to work with if you have to move stuff around, like migrate to a new VM.

I tried switching a while back, but I found a bunch of stuff didn’t work properly, and wasn’t considered supported. I don’t remember what it was exactly.

I might try it again once there’s been a bit more development and community use. Docker isn’t ideal, but at least it works and there’s a lot of community support.

And nothing of value was lost. Opnsense is still free and open source, and doesn’t start petty drama insulting its competitors.

https://teklager.se/en/pfsense-vs-opnsense/

Yeah it’s a rough number, but it can be used as a guide to estimate power consumption, max performance, and stuff like that. In this case, running an identical software stack, you can say that it would probably result in slightly increased power usage. A better CPU might mean more efficiency, but you’re also running more GHz and more cores.

If you wanted hard data, you’d have to run benchmarks.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/2957vs3103/Intel-Celeron-G3930-vs-Intel-i3-8100

TDP goes from 51 to 65 W, not much of an increase. If you have it set to throttle down when not used, I don’t think you’ll see much of a change.

Doubling the number of cores is a big performance boost. I would certainly upgrade if you’re considering 4K video, especially if you’re transcoding.

I’d also read the Jellyfin article about hardware acceleration: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/hardware-acceleration/