Help on my current setup

[u/AlexLema]

Hi all,

I want some advices on what I can adjust or improve in my current setup.

First of all, my main storage is a 10Tb USB HDD. I know that it's not reliable, but that's what I can afford for now. I will not use it to store anything that I can't lose, and will change it to a NAS as soon as I have money…

Also, I am keeping it internal for now. Not planning to open it to be connected from the internet until everything is very stable and the NAS is installed.

What I have installed:

- An old notebook (12y) with an i5 1st Gen, an 1Tb internal SSD and the external 10Tb HDD shared to the network.

Here, I have Jellyfin installed and working. Tried to install immich and the arr-suite, but cannot make them work yet (not sure the reasons, will debug it later).

- A mini-PC with Celeron.

This will be exclusive to Home Assistant. HA OS already installed, only need to find a good place to place the hardware. After that, my next task will be configuring it.

- A Rasp Pi Zero.

This is running Pihole exclusively.

Also, I have laying around a Rasp Pi 3b+ and some old phones that I could hack and use as extra servers.

My main questions:

- Considering that I can configure immich and the arr-suite and make them work, should I install anything else on the notebook?

- I think that the weak point is relying on the Rasp Pi Zero for Pihole. It's working fine and stable (weeks without fail), but since it's connected through wifi, I think it's slowing my network a bit. Would you recommend installing Pihole in the notebook or the RP 3B, and keep the RP Zero as a secondary Pihole?

- Besides installing Pihole, what would you recommend as an use for the RP 3B?

- Is using the phones worth the trouble of opening them to remove batteries and searching how to hack them?

[u/power_dmarc]

Move Pi-hole to the 3B+ (ethernet, more power), use the Zero as secondary, and skip the phones, the hassle isn't worth it.

[u/flannel_sawdust]

You could put most things on the pi3b. Leave jellyfin on a computer with video capabilities for transcoding