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Recently, my 10-year old drive that I pulled out of an old computer died. I want to buy another one now. The machine will run Jellyfin (I have an existing collection that I will be transferring from another drive), Immich, and the *arr stack.

I have this motherboard which has one SATA port and one PCIe x1 port. For this reason, I won't be able to add a second drive for redudancy, unless I add a PCIe to SATA card.

My biggest concern is that I want the drive to last. I don't want much capacity, I think 1-2 TB is enough. My budget is from 0€ (of course) to 65-70€.

So I have a couple of questions:

Should I buy an SSD or an HDD?
I live in Greece and ServerPartDeals is not an option because shipping is really high. Do you know a place where I could purchase it? (Preferably in Greece, but not necessary)
Do you have any specific drive suggestions?
Is there any other way (except for buying a PCIe to SATA card) to add more drives in the motherboard?

Thank you.

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[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

As someone who had jellyfin running on HDD and moved it to a solid state: it's a night and day difference when loading things. The reduced storage capacity for the same cost is very much worth it IMO.

[-] raldone01@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I have a ~40TB HDD array and jellyfin is super fast. Just put the database and cache files on a SSD.

For bulk storage of 4k videos with high bitrates HDDs are way cheaper.

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I have a ~40TB HDD array and jellyfin is super fast

I hope it is. But OP has a single drive.

[-] raldone01@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

True multiple drives speed up reads significantly. As long as the videos are sequential read speeds can be very fast (600MB/s) even on one drive though. Results may vary.

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