Been running factory refurbished. Thats the important part. It must say factory refurbs. Ive had one failure in 5-6 years and was warranty replaced

I assume youve seen trashs guides. But yea I get it. Im sure your aware reencoding can kill quality too. Many grab the blueray and then reencode that to hevc just depends what works

Why dont you just redownload hevc on whats available and convert the rest?

Nowadays thats less than 10 drives. I literally just ordered 10 20 tb drives to fill my second nas.

I have two synolygy 1019+ with ds 517 expansion units. That 10 drives for each set. Technically i could set that up to have about 400 tb usable.

I buy factory recertified drives for about 200 ea. with a couple spares.yea its a chunk of change but not too crazy.

I have multiple friends with more than a pb.

Thats about a few days worth of downloads for me. Over 150tb raw 80 tb used

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Factory refurbs. I have 3 nas boxes full of drives from there. No issues

I think you can generate static html reports from tautulli

I love grav. Yes its a chore intially but ive move 30+ site from wp to it and all my clients love it

I do the same. If i like them i download the discog. Gotta do something with 200tb nas

Joplin server also will use a file based storage instead of the db. And db then is only used for users

I use joplin as i share notes and collaborate with my wife. Obsidian etc dont do that. Id love to be on obsidian as i really like it but sharing notebooks is mandatory

Any ideas about linux/wine support?

Yup. Has an easy docker setup. Also if you have a kobo you can sync your shelfs wirelessly. Love it

I have 8 of these in 4tb. They are wonderful and ive not had a single issue

I think anything with an intel chip is golden. I have single port intel gigabit nics in all my boxes and zero issues

yep lazylib for books and mags. that feed calibre which cleans and converts to kepub, then that all is synched to nas for calibre-web

there are people that only use lazylib as it has odps server aswell

i use calibre on desktop to clean uip library like you. After any updates i sync it to a dir on my nas that calibre web uses. its a really good setup and passes the wife test

look at calibreweb for web front end. it is VERY good, It even syncs to my kobo wirelessly. love that app

Sorry cant help with das recco. Sabrent makes decent stuff i have a external that has 4 2.5 bays that i fill with older ssds when i cycle them out.

And yea a pure das should not be a secuiry issue

Use a das and run mergerfs if on linux. Makes all the drives look like one big one

Qnap has had some MAJOR security issues. If you get it block the shit out of in. Meaning no way to let it in/out of your network.

Im a big fan of synology. Had a qnap and bolted after all thier crap. Syno interfaces are mich better imho

Immich as well. Its damn good

I have a perfectly functional ds416 but its old too. I bought a newer model as my 416 mirrors data to it. Its a backup of my backup.

The main reason i did it is support for future updates including security patches. The 416 doesnt autoipdate anymore i have to dl a seperate file and update. Im concerned how much longer it will get security patches. When it goes end of life i can easily make the newer box my main nas. Ill probably do it next year regardless.

ive had great luck with heroic games launcher

There are people working on the gui. But honestly once it clicks its easy street. I highly suggest the discord. A ton of people running it for a while and very helpful. Say hi to codeslave there. (Me)

Ytdl-sub is what you want. Does allmost all of that. Has sets up nfo and plex. Really great app. Takes a bit to config but the dev is ver responsive and is on discord all the time.