The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/TheCountofNotreDame on 2025-01-18 23:04:50.
Got into hoarding movies over a decade ago, and my server setup has evolved over the years like I'm sure most of yours has. Bought a Synology NAS in 2015 and that was good until I ran out of space in 2018. Bought another Synology NAS in 2019 and ran out of space with that one. Got into using the star apps in 2022 and man were those a game changer with the ability to streamline media organization through the use of hard links. I also got into using Kometa (used to be PMM) but was only able to get that working with my gaming PC, so when I ran out of space in my second Synology NAS I started using my gaming PC Fractal Meshify 2 case as a temporary HDD server in a windows storage pool (while still streaming media off my two Synology NASs on stored network drives). After a recent data loss scare with my windows storage pool and realizing I wouldn't be able to expand beyond 63 TB, I'm wondering where should I go next? Should I spend $2-3k on a server rack setup? Here are some things I'm hoping to accomplish:
- Perma-seed with a hard links friendly setup - seems like the synology NAS file system thinks there is double the amount of usage even with a working hard link setup.
- Use the starr apps in a user-friendly format such as windows. I'm able to do some light setup for things like Kometa in CMD/Powershell with a very detailed easy to follow guide but won't be able to invest time in things like Linux as I'm no programmer.
- I want to continue to expand my capacity as I never want to make the hard choice of having to delete movies/tv shows, and would prefer not to have to buy the same size HDDs.
- I want to move to the 3-2-1 setup for storage but would hope to consolidate the management of this in one system.
Here is my current setup:
