What about nextcloud? With the memories app you have something like google photos with locally running face recognition and a timeline, etc etc. I really like it

Thats what I will be going for 😁

Since hardware RAID is not state of the art anymore I will definetly stick with software RAID. I think I will just build a new server for the money, since an 8-Bay USB enclosure costs around 600€ and for that amount of money I can just build a new server with even better performance

Problem for me is: there is not a 6 bay enclosure and the 8 bay enclosures cost as many as a RAID capable one

Very informative, thank you :)

I mean I’ve been running the setup this way for >4 years and never had any problem with the USB connection, so I cannot attest to “usb connections are quite unstable”…

USB-C. It only has a single SATA connector inside

You should put your pihole server in the dns server in the network settings. My mobile devices didn’t use my pihole server until I changed the dns server configured there… (I am using a FritzBox as well)