For someone who wants to maintain a library of movies, I see the first two links in movies megathread total to 34TB worth of content.
What type of storage solutions do you folks use or recommend for large movie collections like this?
Do you have server racks? Which ones would you recommend?
NAS… I have a Synology with 4x18tb drives.
Does synology phone home though? Made in China, not exactly a reputable place as far as privacy goes.
(I also have a synology nas but it has 2 2TB drives and I don’t let it talk to the outside world)
If you’re concerned about privacy, you could build your own NAS. It’s more work, but also more powerful for the money. Wolfgang’s Channel on YouTube has quite a few videos about low power diy home server.
If you are concerned, you could just not allow it to talk to the outside… I use pihole, and didn’t see any “talking” from it.
Well it definitely checks for updates, and it has services for finding nas for dummies that use outside communications. My router policy doesn’t allow it to talk to the outside, but certain docker containers hosted on the nas can access internet via raspberry pi proxy
Occasionally I let it update then close it off again.
Right, and all of these are optional or block-able. I guess it depends on the use case.
But, like others suggested, you could also go the custom nas way. That way it’s completely under your control.
Please explain about your pi proxy. Is it like an AP isolated from your LAN?