When i have a plex lifetime pass from 2016, dam 10 years. Plex works fine, my biggest complaint is the other steaming service they are trying to sell (luckily you can disable it), offline viewing on mobile needs a lot of love.

Everything else works good enough. Why should i spend time on converting?

My next thing I want to replace is my good Nvidia Shield, sadly with Android TV that 1/3 of my main page is an ad , and i can’t easily turn if off. And have not found a good alternative launcher.

It is like Microsoft windows, enshittification.

Yes when it comes to RAID, a UPS is a must.

Linux MDADM is not resiliency against power lose. And will overwrite from master if they are not equal.

Cow system ZFS, LVM, BTRFS and similar, have separate metadata table to compare against. But even then they can be affected by write hole in the event of a powerloss.

If you are thinking it for “backup” for redundancy in case of disc error, a solution can be to use something like borg backup, and a source disk as a BTRFS file system so you can be notified if there is checksum errors.

A cheap UPS is 60€, it will work good enough.

If i am to get a new NAS I would get https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/unas-2

I am running BTRFS Raid 6. i have no problems with it. You need a UPS to avoid transient errors.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/45adaefb-b0fe-4925-bc83-6d1f5f65a6dc@suse.com/

I would recommend move to BTRFS or ZFS. Easyer and safer to work with.

I use pihole with DNS over https (my ISP intercepts my non encrypted DNS queries) works great for me. Both in LXC and Raspberry pi.

What issue are you trying to solve?

This i need to try!

SNMP monitoring can give you a realtime visualize all the device connected to a network, different subnets, etc, and show the flow of data for each network device.

https://www.librenms.org/

You write that you need help. From the questions it sound like you need experience. You may not like my answer.

BTRFS and ZFS are very similar, try them out figuring out.

Try LXC if it doesn’t work for you, use standard VM.

There is nothing wrong with have all in one machine, one VM per service or a hybrid.

There is nothing wrong with using a WLAN as long as you accept the consequences of that.

I think you should try it out and get some experience, what is the worse that can happen? You learn something and try something different.

Do you want to use desktop app or systemd timer?

How can I be sure that my traffic is routing to the Wireguard VPN?

Use ‘tracepath’.

If you desire to be able to config via text file is not to strong. You can use https://github.com/librenms/docker

I have no problem running it with raid 5/6. The important thing is to have a UPS.

I use Google chromecast for this.

There soundbars with chromecast support.

It is not 1000 it 10000.

You can try with setting g+w on pve.

I can’t say I share that experience. By biggest problem with player is lake of chromecast on IOS and half balled chromecast on Android (lake of volume level, default 10% volum, doesn’t see my speaker pair, doesn’t always discover chromecast devices).

I have not heard of Prologue and it support for Audiobookshelf (ABS).

Why would one choice Prologue over the ABS app?

Draw us a topology drawing. Please.

Agreed the PCI layout is bad. My problem is the x16 slot.

I would prefer 8 slots/onboard with PCIe5 x2 from CPU. From the chipset 2 slots of PCIe4 x2. This would probably adequate IO. Aiming for 2x25 Gbits performance.

Depending on the price I would like to use to replace my Synology, I will strip os and run standard Debian.

Sadly is very hard to repurpose an Synology.