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📻 Ep. 8 — Just Install it on the Host

We dig into the NVIDIA RTX Spark and what it means for local AI, revisit the Proxmox-vs-Unraid debate through Alex's Perfect Media Server Part 3, and do a deep dive on Jellyfin's strengths, rough edges, and the upcoming version 12.

#bitflipshow #Nvidia #LocalAi #Llm #Proxmox #Arm #Unraid #Mergerfs #Snapraid #Ansible #Jellyfin

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Alex Kretzschmar Jun 9

Perfect Media Server Part 3 is out!!!

This feature length epic details everything you need to know to build a media server from the ground up using nothing be free and open-source software.

#selfhosted #jellyfinjune #proxmox #mergerfs #snapraid #docker (repost due to techhub.social downtime)

https://youtu.be/5xLopzndVfU

Perfect Media Server Part 3 | How to build a self-hosted media server

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Alex Kretzschmar Jun 9

Perfect Media Server Part 3 is out!!!

This feature length epic details everything you need to know to build a media server from the ground up using nothing but free and open-source software.

#selfhosted #jellyfinjune #proxmox #mergerfs #snapraid #docker

https://youtu.be/5xLopzndVfU

Perfect Media Server Part 3 | How to build a self-hosted media server

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Mr. GM Apr 26

HDD upgrades on the server are nearly complete! I added a 26TB drive as the new parity drive, then reformatted the 20TB parity drive for use as a data drive. I did a SnapRAID sync to ensure all drives have recovery data, then I shut down the server and replaced the 20TB drive closest to me with the other 26TB drive.

As luck would have it, this ended up being the same drive I'd just formatted! Running a SnapRAID fix now to generate recovery data on the new drive.

#homelab #datahoarder #SnapRAID

Mr. GM Apr 24

For future reference: I started my NAS with two 20TB drives and a parity drive. I added two more 20TB drives about a yeae ago, and had one SATA port on the motherboard open.

Recently, I ordered two 26TB drives. One is replacing the parity drive, and the 20TB will become a data drive. When I know data is backed up properly I'll replace one of the 20TB data drives with the other 26TB drive. This will add another 26TB of total storage if my math is correct.

#homelab #NAS #computers #SnapRAID

Mr. GM Apr 24

Added a new drive to my server with the plan to make it the new snapraid parity drive and use the old parity drive for data. After copying the data over for about a day, I updated my snapraid.conf and... apparently I was only backing up 2 of my 4 (soon to be 5) data discs due to not updating my config like a year ago?

Welp, it looks like it's time for a loooong sync now that I've fixed this! I'm glad I didn't have one of the two not-backed-up drives die at least..!

#homelab #NAS #SnapRAID

Mika Mar 10

My experience with #OMV #NAS with #RaspberryPi, and using #SnapRAID + #MergerFS, is that while SnapRAID's really cool, it def could not beat real #RAID. My understanding is RAID works on a low/block level so it can achieve redundancy 'in real time' no matter what files you have, but since SnapRAID is in software, it's not only more involved but it also simply could not achieve full redundancy as you will def need to exclude a lot of files (which could render ur redundancy useless, depending on ur use case) and it's also more involved where you might need to e.g. stop a bunch of #Docker containers prior to it doing its thing.

I'm just not sure how to achieve 'real' RAID on an RPi 4 (of varying memory capacities). One benefit of SnapRAID (and MergerFS) is that you could easily implement it with USB-attached disks, which is the 'friendliest' choice for SBCs like the Pi which has no SATA connectivity built-in.

Mika Oct 13, 2025

I don't normally think much of how parity works with #RAID, since RAID's kinda 'magic' lol (feels like it anyway) - but on my #OpenMediaVault #NAS, which uses #SnapRAID (i.e. not 'real' RAID), I'm wondering how it works.

In a SnapRAID setup, to set up a parity disk, you just need to designate a disk that is the same size, or larger than all other disks in your pool. Mine's a 1TB SSD, others in the pool (i.e. content drives) being the exact same drives.

Today, I got an alert saying that my parity disk has used up ~89% of its storage space - should I do something about it? What happens when the parity disk is filled up completely - no parity, anymore? If I have 2x 1TB content disks (i.e. 2TB worth of data), can I expect that 1TB of parity drive to be sufficient, since that's as per the requirement of SnapRAID after all?

Any pointers from #homelab folks is much appreciated - I've been relying a lot on #OMV 's wiki, which is pretty comprehensive, but I saw no mention of this. I'm also still scanning through SnapRAID's own documentation.

🔗 https://wiki.omv-extras.org/doku.php?id=omv7:omv7_plugins:snapraid

🔗 https://www.snapraid.it/manual

omv7:omv7_plugins:snapraid [omv-extras.org]

VoidZeroOne

Aug 7, 2025

Because I had a conveersation about #backup yesterday at the pool.

trapexit, author of mergerfs, has a collection of IMHO , good and new user friendly howtos over here.

https://github.com/trapexit/backup-and-recovery-howtos

#linix #btrfs #zfs #snapraid #mergerfs #backup #rsync

GitHub - trapexit/mergerfs: a featureful union filesystem

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Nikolai Hampton 💾Jul 21, 2025

@diegolakatos this was great. I went with Open Media Vault (OMV). The installer for that was a little painful because it didn't support manual partitioning. But it loaded on to a TerraMaster F4-424 without any issues.

I added the OMV extras repository. Installed mergerfs and SnapRAID.
Configured through the UI.

It works! Simple and effective. I checked my files by mounting independently and they all look good. Then tested a recovery by formatting a drive and using SnapRAID and it worked beautifully.

Extremely happy! Thank you.

#selfhosting #selfhosted #openmediavault #mergerfs #snapraid #terramaster