The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/LuiGuitton on 2025-04-17 13:37:45.
Hey,
So as the title say, I've decided to give up on never ending subscription based services like Netflix, Amazon and the rest of the crap.
The use is fairly straightforward and easy (I think,lol) - torrents, torrents, torrents, maybe some photo backup from phone but that's really it, 99.99% for torrents.
Here's the build from pcpartpicker:
I know that PSU and 32GB RAM might be an overkill but at the moment I couldn't find anything cheaper for PSU with 80+ Gold Rating and 32GB RAM for below 45£ is no brainer really, more RAM can't hurt in the long run I guess?
Plus I know that i5-12400 might be a bit overkill too but downgrading to 12100 isn't much of a price difference.
My confusion starts at the OS (I know there's plethora of OSs such as unraid, truenas, casa etc etc) that I should be running it on, as I have fairly decent "knowledge" about normal IT stuff such as building PCs, troubleshooting etc, I never played with anything else than Windows, hence why I want to run this on Windows 11 and it goes like this:
- plex - prowlarr + sonarr + radarr
- ombi for requests, for people outside home network
a) I've read that reverse proxy is the safest to share my server/torrent box with people who are outside my network (at home for example) but it seems very complicated and confusing as I'm not that tech savvy, is there any in-depth tutorial for Windows or easier way to do it? Would it be possible to do by TailScale somehow? Or perhaps their phone application would be enough to somehow share my server and invite them via email (kinda like with PLEX ?) 3. ProtoVPN + qbittorrent, bind it together in qbittorrent client 4. And that would run 24/7 5. For HDDs it will be Seagate IronWolf 16TB as they are around 200-220£, as many as I can put into R5 (of course slowly building up the number of HDDs) 6. I don't really have many people to share that kind of media server, max it will be 2-3 people outside my home network
What do you guys think, please let me know if you've got any advice, ideas, do you think a noob like me can do it?