Just give them access to it now? There shouldn’t be any issue with it continuing to be available or a while if you should get hit by a bus.

primebuy looks like a ripoff of amazon, insight looks legit, but you’ll probably get what your order from either site

Anything in the Jellyfin logs?

You should consider opnsense instead of pfsense in any case.

What are you using for a drive controller?

Even the slowest SSD write speeds should be faster than an HDD, and those have been running systems perfectly fine for decades. I’ve never used enterprise SSDs (usually one little consumer SSD, or even USB, for boot/cache and a bunch of HDDs for storage) and I’ve never had a problem.

What kind of hardware are you using?

Why separate it? It’s part of the same stack. Radar downloads, Jellyfin plays.

Ebay. If you’re outside the US, you’ll probably be better off with a more local site.

I usually find the cheapest drives and buy multiple of those, but you should be able to assemble a RAID out of different disks, though you’ll be limited to the space of the smallest one in the mirror set.

Also make sure that your RAID systems supports this.

This is what I do, but with alma instead of debian.

Proxmox can run containers directly, but I haven’t tried it yet.

What exactly is not working? What is it doing/not doing, compared to what you are expecting it to do?

Or just start a new login shell.

See if there’s a cooling profile option in the BIOS. Maybe also run the Dell diagnostics. Might be something wrong with the fan tachometer.

Worst case, assuming the PWM is working properly, you could use a third-party application to control the fan speed.

As long as the laptop doesn’t go to sleep, yes.

I don’t think OP has backups.

Having one, the other, or both depends on how sure you need to be about recovery, and whether you care about it being available until recovery.

Definitely upgrade the RAM. Also get at least two drives in RAID or ZFS or something so you can tolerate a failure. And keep backups too, if you can’t afford to lose data.

Just ping it?

Actual traffic might be slightly different, but honestly on a LAN you shouldn’t need to worry about latency. But you’re not going to be able to run iperf3 on that router in any case.

Use the -arr tools for organizing/renaming/tagging, and Plex or Jellyfin for playing. You don’t need to connect them to any downloader.

Reconsider how much of that 8tb really needs to be backed up. Thousands of pictures of your cat aren’t really going to be missed, and your Linux ISOs can be redownloaded.

I have never known RPM of a drive to affect its noise level. The fan(s) will be far more significant in noise level. Most drives run pretty quietly, though some can get noisy during I/O, like my HGST Ultrastar He6 drives.

Also, without knowing the model, I wouldn’t say they’re not made to run 24/7. But even on desktop drives, it’s rarely run time that kills them, it’s start-stop cycles. Everything will be fine, but one day you’ll shut it down and some drives won’t spin up. That’s why power outages can be deadly to an old server.