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Proxmox or NAS for Media Server (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Linguist@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hey all, been running TrueNAS Scale for a few months now on a PC I built along with Proxmox on another mini PC I bought.

I tried setting up my media server on TrueNAS scale but didn't like my NAS running hot and being used so much but tried setting up Jellyfin and the arr media suite on Proxmox but ran into some issues with NFS shares and also SMB shares from TrueNAS along with config issues.

Just wondering if anyone has any suggestions or recommendations on how I should setup my media server and home network.

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[–] talbot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Running a Debian VM with Docker solved all those issues for me. I set the arrs root /data folder on my NAS to mount with CIFS at boot. It works so well with a ceiling of 4/8 cores and 12GB RAM I've moved all my containers to it and mostly just use Proxmox for monitoring and reliable backups/images over NFS.

The only issue I've had in the last year or so took me about 30 minutes between realizing something was wrong and fixing it: Make sure you put your CIFS credentials file in a folder accessible to Debian's main user account or a power loss will break automount until you re-establish the link with a root user. Or create a locked down arrs-only user on your NAS so the CIFS command can include the username and password with less concern.

[–] thirdBreakfast@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I have a very similar setup. Jellyfin in Docker on a Debian VM (2 cores, 8GB RAM), and all the media on the NAS. The CIFS/SMB from the NAS is mounted in fstab. I keep all the metadata locally for speed - ie not on the NAS. I don't like the extra layer of running Docker, but it works like a charm whereas I had a few hassles running Jellyfin natively in the VM. I do have a special 'media' user with the name and password in the mount command which only has permissions for the media.

Can't comment on the arrs suite since I get all my linux distros on those disks attached to the front of magazines.