Hello!
I’ve decided to build my own small server for the house and would really appreciate some advice. I’m plannin on using it for storage, video sharing(was gonna do Plex but I jus heard about the price change and something about jellyfin?), Minecraft, and Valheim. Nothin too serious. I have a pair of 12tb HDDs (a Seagate iron wolf and a WD Red), a Lenovo m710q to use as the base, and HexOS to run it . As I’ve opened it up I realized is not gonna be as simple as I thought, like the sata cable not having room for more, or if they can be powered by the board itself. I was already thinking of getting a smallish SSD to run the OS off of and upgrading the ram kit already, but with the HDDs I’m not as sure. Should I look into a sata splitter and get creative with adding the HDDs, should I look into getting a pair of external HDD cages, or should I drop back and punt with my old i5-4590 tower I was using until I upgraded my old rig? I figured the m710q would run it better, but yeah.
Thanks for any help!
I was about to suggest the same: Proxmox VE on the m710q, and something like TrueNAS, or good ol’ Debian (using NFS so the m710q VMs can mount remote folders) and podman/docker/whatever on the i5-4590 to run stuff like Jellyfin.
Another possibility: Proxmox on both, clustered (not that really hard to achieve), with a “NAS” VM on the i5-4590 node and another transcoding/media-player VM with Jellyfin (you can relatively easily expose PCIe stuff to a VM with Proxmox nowadays, including a gfx card).
If OP prefers runing LXC containers, Incus can also be an interesting choice.