Hi all, a few months ago I got started with selfhosting. Installed Ubuntu Server on a HP EliteDesk 705 G3 Mini. It’s been great, running Jellyfin, Tandoor, Calibre-Web, and Miniflux. Everything is local access only.
The machine came with 1TB SSD and currently about 80% of that is taken. I’ve been searching around for good options to expand. While I’m relatively comfortable on the software side of things, I’m very inexperienced with and somewhat intimidated by hardware (but would love to learn a bit more).
What would be the most prudent way to expand storage? Is it simply replacing the existing SSD? Should I think of adding a NAS instead?
Buying new hardware would be ok, my only hard requirement is that I don’t want to run proprietary software/OS.
This is highly unlikely as even the highest bitrate 4k content is going to cap out at around 12MB/s while spinning drives can transfer at 120MB/s per drive. I’d say that 99% of people hosting their own media servers are still solely relying on spinning disks for storage as SSDs are still extremely expensive per TB comparatively and don’t really offer any advantages for storing bulk media at this point.
Can confirm, I have tens of terabytes of content and stream 4K content regularly from 7200 rpm drives. Never an issue, even in the slightest. Always buttery smooth playback without buffering, even on WiFi.