Whrere are you from?

Because in Germany it is really common.

I have been looking for a new contract for a while now, because my dsl is shit (thanks to my landlord). But all new cable contracts I can find are NATed (ecxept buisness contracts).

Fair, it is a lot harder, but possible (you could vpn your traffick through a vps). Actually one of the reasons I have not changed my terribly slow contract yet.

Not necessairly. In Germany CGNAT is quite common. So if one of OPs devices routes via IPv4, the traffic will be routed to the carriers public facing router. I would not consider that local as it physically leaves the cables you control.

Does your provider give you yoir own (not necessairly fixed, jus no one else having it simultaniously) IPv4-Address? Some keywords to look out for wrt that are NAT, or DS(dual stack)-lite.

Basically the traffic goes all the way out to whatever device has that public IP. It then is routed back.

This would be a problem if OP has a provider who NATed him (which is quite common where he is from), right?

I think I was a bit unclear on that, I meant uncompressed rips as in I ripped the relevant media to unkompressed mkvs, I didn’t save the entire disk dump. I also have mostly such rips, but also a bit of media from other sourches ™ which is already compressed. So I suspect my results would be even worse.

Thank you, I didn’t know that, but that was the type of answer I was looking for :D.

I only ripped the relevant media anyways, so no trailers to remove.

A bit offtopic: What theme is that? I was woundering why you would put windows screenshots under a comment about dolphin for a second.

I googled around a bit and it seems the main concern is being seperate sowftware-wise, not mainly location wise (although thats a nice side effect). So mainly avoiding fun stuff like https://m.slashdot.org/story/112253.

I am just repeating a commonly used phrase with that tbh.

I would Imagine it comes from the fact that a backup also safeguards agains other failures by creating more distance between the Copies. If you are hit by a ransomware attack Raid wont be much good. If your PSU sufers a failure, it might cause an overcurrent/voltage in both hdds. If you accidentally delete something it will be deleted on both drives, etc.

If you go that route I’d want to make sure the cpu is at least somwewhat recent.

My first server was an old office PC I bought used as well, but I had real problems with it, because the CPU was lacking some X86 instructions which is why I could not run a specific service I wanted to as it used those. (And if you want to run jellyfin in the near future you should make sure to buuy a cpu that can also do some hardware encoding/decoding as doing that in software on a low end CPU can make the experience somewhat sluggish.

I don’t think ssds would be viable with a total budget of 500€ and the need for >=8Tb of storage.

No need for virtualization (so no Proxmox, TrueNAS, or Unraid) Run lightweight containers for web services like Immich, Paperless-ngx, Pi-hole, and custom services I’ve developed

Do you not consider containers virtulizations? Or do you plan to run your webservices in the same context? Because I would really suggest against doing the latter.

However, I’m unsure if I really need RAID since I’ll perform regular backups.

Raid is not a backup anyhow ;).

If you don’t need the capacity or redundancy of raid I would suggest you buy a single >=8Tb drive. It should be a bit cheaper (For example, I recently payed ~270€ for 16 Tb, which I’d reccomend over paying 240€ for 8Tb in total. There are probably also 8/12 Tb drives for less then 240€.). It will also use half the power as that does not really scale with capacity.

Edit: there are a bunch of 8tb drives at 180€ here for example.

I don’t tgink you can create a RaidZ1 with just two drives.

But the low-cost pool would probably not have the capacity to hold my data (or not be low-cost).

Sadly I don’t have 11 Tb worth of smaller empty drives around (and not even eniugh sata-Ports, so I’d also have to buy an expansion-card).

Yeah, I don’t like the broken pool idea either, that’s why I was hoping there was a better method.

Sounds interesting, but while I have room for one more drive, I don’t want to spend money for one more drive xD (As mentioned, I have >= 12Tb drives, so another one I don’t really need would hurt the wallet quite a bit.)

But send to where?

I back up my personal data for which I have the space. I do not back up my media, as I can’t justify the costs for another drive that size and would be fine with losing in the offchance I loose two drives in my array (or my entire server fucking up).