My old garage server HDD, a 15-year old 1TB WD drive, finally bit the dust. I'm not going to panic, as this is what backups are for. And I've been through this process before, so it's just a matter of pulling all the pieces together.
I've got a few SSDs in the garage, and since the main part of my space consumption is on the 8TB drives, I don't really need a lot of root drive space. So I plugged in a 60G SSD, and started the process of trying various Linux flavors to see which one will work for my applications.
Tried Fedora 40, Fedora 27, and Linux Mint. None of them could do everything I wanted, so I went back to Centos 7.10. I like Linux Mint's support for GUI apps, and I think they could probably give Ubuntu a run for their money. But for what I'm doing, Centos 7 will work great. The only downside is that Centos is pulling support for Centos 7 in the next couple months. Not too concerned about that; even after Centos 5 and 6 went EOL, there were still repos out there that supported RPMs all the way up to the last minor version.
As of tonight, my backup program and media server are both running on the garage server. Next steps are to reinstall the "tank" drives, reset the cron job for keeping them in sync, and then verify that we can watch movies from our Roku TV.
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