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Choosing a second drive for my home server (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 2 years ago by whysofurious@sopuli.xyz to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi all,

Quite excited for my first post here and for being able to join the club :)

I recently bought a Beelink Mini S12 Pro and put Debian on it. I did use yunohost for over a year and I experimented with basic nginx, fail2ban etc. on a vps but I can't call myself an expert around these things. For this reason I installed casa-os to ease my way into docker (maybe in the future I will do everything DIY, I do like the idea). I put everything behind tailscale to be able to access the server outside my home.

My idea is to have a media server (radarr and sonarr for movies and tv shows, plus navidrome for my music collection) and some other niceties like audiobookshelf and maybe immich. I still need to learn most things about the arr stack, transcoding and such, so I don't have any rush.

However, for all these things, I definitely need a larger drive, since the mini pc comes with a 512gb internal ssd.

The S12 also has a 2.5" drive bay (SATA3), but should I go for an internal drive or an external one connected via USB?

Things I am worried about the internal solution is mostly temperatures, everything is so clumped in there and I read some stories about faulty hardware basically heating the sata ssd to death after a while. On the other hand, usb connection is maybe less "stable"? I don't know. Also, if I go with SATA drive, should I go for ssd or hdd? I don't have too much budget to invest right now, so cost is somewhat a limit at the moment.

Seeking any advice here and happy to hear more expert people opinion on this, thanks! :)

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[–] lem@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I just bought the same computer and put an SSD in the internal slot. It's been fine so far but it hasn't been long enough to give any advice.

I've hosted Plex for years using external HDDs without issue. There is a bit of a delay when starting a stream, but nothing I can't live with.