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You’re the only one giving me a positive answer!

I do not mind RAID, so i won’t lose data when a drive fails (the most valuable thing will be backups, which i mean, are backups, so not that critical if i can make a new one, but even losing other data would be a bit boring). I think I’d do software RAID tho, so if the controller breaks i wouldn’t have to find the same model, which could be hard for old hardware i guess.

the other comments scared me about power consumption, so i’ll have to investigate more of it.

If you’re going for software RAID, I recommend taking it a step further and go for ZFS: If set up correctly you get all the advantages of raid6, while remaining very flexible.

Exactly. I’ve got a 4TB mirror setup for my pictures I reclaimed from Google Photos, and music, and other important stuff. It also backs up to iDrive which is really affordable. (Hopefully stays that way…)

What sucks is I scored a deal on a pair of WD Red 4TBs to add, but one was defective, so now I’m stuck with a half mirror I don’t know what to do with and it’s kinda not responsible for me to spend >100 bucks completing the mirror right now.

My media collection isn’t on a mirror or backed up or anything because it’s naturally way larger than everything else, but I think for the stuff that truly matters, this will see us through.

If any service has only username and password instead of mfa or password less then it’s not safe.

None of them do

You also didn’t mention if you have automated patching or immutable backups enabled.

I do not. I don’t even know what those are tbh

I do the same. It is not perfect for it but it works and it is already running. I’m not sure I would recommend it for anyone not looking for audiobooks

I tried Calibre web and Kogma.

Calibre is just bad software at this point, it’s clunky and not really designed as a server.

Kogma was fine, but a web only interface made it hit or miss. The big selling point for me with audio bookshelf was the ability to download local copies.

Thx! We coulf call it an ebook library then and not a reader.

Could you also have a row for english?

The SSDs are definitely weirder than they are spinny but otherwise it depends. A 7200RPM weird spinny thing is for example more spinny than a 5400RPM but if you take 3 of the 5400RPM in a RAID, then the spinnines is aggregated, making it more spinny than a 7200RPM. But in doing so, you are multiplying the weirdiness, making it exponentially more weird than a single 7200RPM weird spinny thing. This has to do with how the weirdiness particles flow between the spinny things to make sure that you’ll always be able to recover the weirdiness of one of the spinny things from the other spinny things in case of an untimely demise.

This is definitely food for thought. Junk food, but technically food.

Two random things you may already know, but just in case:

• Oracle (yes, the evil company) gives you one VPS for free
• Jellyfin is an alternative to Plex which would work perfectly with your setup

3.60 €/month is not bad. however i’d look for something even cheaper, given that the lowest plan gives 4 cores and 8gb of RAM, which I probably won’t need

Oracle (yes, the evil company) gives you one VPS for free

I hate that it’s oracle…

Drives have always been more expensive where I live due to taxes and extra “pirate taxes” they stick on anything you can store data on. But now they are even worse, so sad. $589 for 16TB Toshiba N300 was the cheapest “new” ones I could find at a glance.

Sadly the import taxes from the states would almost double it. I think I can find somewhat cheaper drives in Germany if I looked hard though.

Oh you’re outside the U.S. yeah that’s a pickle. Microcenter is a brick and mortar store here so I’d definitely recommend checking for your local equivalent.

That’s really cool. After I replied I also remembered you can have multiple libraries in audiobookshelf so even if side-by-side doesn’t work it shouldn’t be an issue.

Unfortunately I love my Readest reading app too much to switch away but it’s nevertheless good to know for other family members.

Oh yeah, the multiple libraries is a good point!

It sure makes things easy to host!

I’ve got 200TB of HDDs all with 80,000+ hours on them :(

Pray they don’t break in the next 4 years.
I’ll join you

Time to repurpose all of my random mixed capacity HDDs in a bag somewhere, I guess.