This isn't really very interesting or innovative compared to other comments here, but lately I've decided I want to build a home server to do a few tasks: Jellyfin server, photo server (probably using Immich which looks like a nice clone of Google Photos, where I'm almost out of space), automated device backups, etc., so I've been doing a lot of research into this. I've built computers in the past many times, but I got out of it a while ago so a lot of things have changed.
I looked into pre-built systems like Synology and QNAP, but they seem too proprietary and limited, and somewhat expensive for the hardware they have, so I decided to build my own, but trying to decide on all the HW and SW is a real task: btrfs vs ZFS, Intel vs AMD, RAID levels, etc.
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