Appreciate the detailed writeup and for highlighting the tradeoffs. Useful information for the DIY build approach

Thanks for sharing that writeup, this is useful info for the building it myself route

Thanks for that link to the blackblaze reports, definitely good to have, I always assume that a drive can fail any moment anyways.

Starting to build a storage pool sounds like a fun project, do you have suggestions of some hardware to start with that could later be expanded?

I’m not sure if data redundancy is necessary for my use case, as I don’t need to guarantee 24/7 accessibility.

Yes, the consensus here seems to be that for media it is fine to choose a HDD. Won’t it make streaming from Jellyfin slower?