Google did some research on this way back when. Failure rates start going up at an average temperature of 35 °C and become significantly higher if the HDD is operated beyond 40°C for much of its life. That’s HDD temperature, not ambient.
On the contrary, they found that temperature had almost no bearing on failure rate.
My fileserver regularly ‘enjoys’ 45-50c during the day when I’m not home in summer.
Aircon isn’t cheap to run, so everythings getting fried while I’m at work (getting fried since we don’t have AC at work)
mstream just uses folders, so you can organise however you want.
Apps for Android and iOS, webui for everything else. Does basic (single setting for whole server) transcoding if you wish (I don’t for mp3/m4a/ogg sets, I have them on a second server instance, mstream is very light)
Hardware RAID is dead.
They’re no faster than Software RAID today
They’re vendor and often model locked to a particular make or model of card (so if your card goes bust, so does your array, where software options you can migrate the entire machine to a completely new one, as long as the disks are good so is your data)
ZFS wants access to individual disks anyway
Check which raid card your Dell shipped with, if it’s a PERC H200 or H310, you can flash it to IT mode to make it work as a plain HBA. If it’s a PERC 700, you’re SOL on IT mode. I’m pretty sure it can expose vdrives, but that’s probably more trouble than getting a cheap HBA at that point.
That will kill your drives far sooner than a temperature spike. load/unload cycles is one of the biggest HDD killers.