Weeks ago I purchased a secondhand machine. Since then I have been tinkering this little box. The Perfect Media Server site is a good place to start with. Arch Linux Wiki is my go-to learnning resource, even though I use Ubuntu. Filesystem I'd be super paranoid and careful, as this is my first time manually configuring a disk array. Basically my optoins include: ZFS btrfs Snapraid (or even combnied ZFS/btrfs) Unraid My considerations include: Data integrety, which is the most important. Maintenance. I want everything easy to set up and maintain. Popularity. There will be more doc/tutorial/discussions if the technology is more popular. Eventually I decided to use ZFS with raidz2 on 4 disks. I also took this chance to learn configuring disk encryption. I decided to use LUKS beneath ZFS. I could have just used ZFS's built-in encryption, but I thought LUKS is fun to learn. It really was. The commands are way more user-friendly that I had expected. Hardening SSH Most popula...
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