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Second Jellyfin media server. Very functional and I haven't had to fuck with it for awhile. Mine also uses yt-dlp to download and secure videos from youtubers that I like, because that shit disappears too often.
I'm gonna shill for snapraid for data protection here. It isn't real raid, but for this use case of a media server it is arguably better. You can string an arbitrary number of disks together as one virtual drive, and content you add will be entirely contained on one disk. All disks together are protected by as many redundant disks as you like, with the requirement that the parity disks be the largest ones. In the event of a failure, you can recover entire drives worth of data with the parity info, and if you fail even harder than that you can do normal data recovery measures on the individual data disks as nothing is being striped across the array. New data is unsecured until you run a sync command, which you can set up as a nightly job or just run manually after each major data push.
Been running a snapraid array of shitty drives for about a decade now. Have had four drive failures and zero data loss. Current array is 10 data disks with 2 parity disks, running from 1 to 8 tb each.