HappyDace

I've been wanting to do this for a long time, but genuinely couldn't figure out how to begin building a NAS. The LTT HexOS video gave me enough confidence to get started though, and I set out to build a system as cheap as I could. I bought the following: Dell Optiplex 3050 Core i5-7500 (3.4GHz), 8GB RAM, no HDD (ebay £73) 16GB Corsair RAM upgrade (Amazon £32) Patriot P300 M.2 PCIe Gen 3 x4 256GB SSD (Amazon £18) 2 x 3TB WD Red drives (Aliexpress £25 each) - performed full burn in test on each before use, no issues at all and of course HexOS for $99 still to buy: PCIe network card (though low priority as onboard is fine for media streaming on home network). Currently looks a mess as the optiplex is SFF and can't fit both drives; a friend is 3d printing a drive enclosure that will mount to the outside of the case. It's virtually silent, and so far been really simple to set up and use, and best of all, I can finally drop my paid for cloud storage 😍

for some reason, one set of media doesn't seem to appear in the correct folder, just shows up in the recently added section below the folders. But generally when you copy the media into your jellyfin folders (using file manager in my case), it will find them after a scan. The folder I am having issues with is one that I set up after install, all the ones I set up pre-install work perfectly, so if I was going to do it again, I would make a folder for each media type first, then just set them all up at install. One thing I did learn while doing this was not to set the cache, config and transcodes folders on the storage drives as this can apparently cause all sorts of problems. Let jellyfin manage them on the boot SSD.

I posted this on another thread, and for the record, I am 100% newb to all things NAS. I have now also set up the Jellyfin app on my roku box and can stream media perfectly across my home network: I managed to install Jellyfin today, it was pretty easy (on the third attempt!!) Before install I created a media folder as a public folder in HexOS, then created subfolders therein for movies, music, etc. Then installed in TrueNAS, left everything as default except for additional storage which was setup as: Type: Host path (Path that already exists on the system) Mount path: /media/movies (or other type) Host path: navigate to, or type path to folders you created before install (for me was: /mnt/HDDs/Media/Movies etc) Complete install, then in Jellyfin UI go through the wizard, and when you get to media libraries, select type, and display name, click +Folder, and browse from the drop down to the corresponding Host Path. I can access it fine from a browser on my phone, haven't got to the point of using the Jellyfin client on other devices yet. The reason I hadn't set myself up a NAS before now was that I was genuinely intimidated at the process, but the LTT video and HexOS showed me just how easy it can be. Not saying the above will work for everyone, but I tried a few times before getting Jellyfin to work.

I managed to install Jellyfin today, it was pretty easy (on the third attempt!!) Before install I created a media folder as a public folder in HexOS, then created subfolders therein for movies, music, etc. Then installed in TrueNAS, left everything as default except for additional storage which was setup as: Type: Host path (Path that already exists on the system) Mount path: /media/movies (or other type) Host path: navigate to, or type path to folders you created before install (for me was: /mnt/HDDs/Media/Movies etc) Complete install, then in Jellyfin UI go through the wizard, and when you get to media libraries, select type, and display name, click +Folder, and browse from the drop down to the corresponding Host Path. I can access it fine from a browser on my phone, haven't got to the point of using the Jellyfin client on other devices yet.