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