Very similar to the dutch "frietje oorlog", war french fries. Still probably the most popular way to eat French fries is dipped in this exact kind of sauce

Ok back again after doing a week of research and am very thankful for your help, now have a question about it:

For this encryption, I need the HDD to only be decryptable with a password that only I have, right? Like thats the end goal? So even if someone gets it or ssh into the server on my friend's side, its an encrypted system? Does thay mean each update also has to be a complete wipe and re-backup??? Or are there systems which can just add the new data by knowing the encryption key?

Jesus I typed a lot. Sorry, I dont want to take advantage of a stranger, but your messages are just so useful right now to me so I'm like enamored hahahaa

Hey I wanted to profusely thank you for your help. It was genuinely amazing help.... im still learning just from reading your comments, looking up a term, and then coming back after a rabbit hole. But Im practicing proxmox on 15 year old laptop right now before implementing it on the pc.

I ended up getting a 2nd pc, but am looking now into dual booting my gaming pc with Ubuntu to do some tasks that only need to happen every once in a while. But i dont really understand clustering all that well nor how I would integrate it with my proxmox main server box.... like to do backups on my gaming pc once a week and have thay backup go once a month to my friend's or something using that gaming pc... is that sensible or nonsense?? I just imagine it having a different psu in a 2nd computer as some layer of redundancy? Is that right?

My plan is to use the free tier of corporate clouds for like the most recent month of photos so that theres a 3rd save location until I like monthly do a backup to my friend's, have a permanent HDD with data every year or so (so like a 500gb cheap one) that I then store at my parents', and using proxmox ZFS on my important data with 3 hdds. This is expensive, but I saved so much on the hardware due to all of your (plural, the whole thread was amazing) advice.

But that all being said, can I come back to you every once in a while to bounce an idea off to hear if I'm still being logical? Im so scared of losing precious photos.

Like, a question i can't wrap my head around now: I want proxmox to handle my ZFS, but immich to also have thumbnails on an SSD. Should thay ssd be separate from the one which promox is on? And what about the one that has the cache of new data (to not have the hdds always on but only once a threshold is met?)

Thanks for your help, I ended up getting 2nd hand ones from old enterprise refurbishers. They were soooooo much cheaper lol

I did this. Thanks for your advice. It helped me a lot

Hey im back now that im much further, but what does your full arr stack look like? I think im getting caught up on terminology but I feel like im missing pieces to make it work

Thanks for this, again. I ended up, because of this, looking into a pc chassis motherboard and pau combo that will power my shit and idle better. Didnt even know about that until you mentioned it

Back just to thank you, I bought a bunch of stuff, but you set me on the right track. I just got an old enterprise pc and am gonna put some parts from my one in it and add HDDs. Without your advice I would've accidentally gotten like a NAS and a computer which was ridiculously redundant and expensive. But your knowledge piece probably saved me 500 bucks. Thanks so much

2 extras. Europe is fucking expensive and the used market is shit. It's impossible to find used hardware thats not at like 85% new price

Damn I care about the data but with 4tb hdds thats like 1000 bucks instead of 700... which I already can barely afford

Im not American, so this all sounds like Greek to me lol. As you can see by the name, im in the Netherlands, and here this used/cheap market is non-existent lol. People resell things at like 90% of new price around here.