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Hello all, I have a brainstorming question for you all, or maybe I'm just looking to confirm that my proposed solution makes some sense.

I am looking to re-arrange my storage solution to fit my needs, here is the situation:

  • I have a 2TB iCloud drive which is the main source of data (iCloud drive and Photos).
  • I have a self hosted Jellyfin instance that requires storage for the media content.
  • At the moment it's using a 2TB WD Element USB drive, which is terrible, not enough storage and super slow.
  • I have a WD MyCloud EX2 Ultra with 2 bays and 2 WD Red 4TB disks.
  • I have a TrueNAS machine running on an Atom D2700 with 8GB of RAM and 2 old 320Gigabytes disks that I've used just for testing.

The objective:

  • iCloud backup: take a recurring backup of iCloud.
  • Jellyfin storage: I figured at least 4TB.
  • Reuse and costs optimization: reuse as much of the current hardware as possible and minimizing costs.

My proposed solution:

  • iCloud backup:
    • Move the 2x4TB WD Red from the WD MyCloud EX2 Ultra to the TrueNAS machine and set it up in mirror mode.
    • Use icloud-docker to backup iCloud in TrueNAS.
    • Use rclone to keep an additional offsite backup on Scaleway glacier (I'm already using it to store some other backups and very happy with it).
  • Jellyfin storage:
    • Buy either 1 or 2 6TB WD Blue disks (or equivalent) to put into the WD MyCloud EX2 Ultra and use that as storage unit for the Jellyfin instance.
    • The reason for using WD Blue is to contain costs. The multimedia storage is not that important to me. Meaning I will not take a backup of it, and if I loose something is not a problem. I just need space and decent speed.
  • Reuse and costs optimization:
    • I will reuse all the hardware that I currently have plus buying only 1 or 2 more disks.

What do you guys think?

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[–] rhaidiz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

That makes sense. The MyCloud only supports JBOD, RADI0 and RAID1. I thought initially to go with RAID0 and the 2 TB disks, but probably the risk is too high compared to the benefit of JBOD for this use case. I mean once one disk if full I can just fill the other one and have Jellyfin get the content from both disks without problems.