I suggest that this community should consider bringing in the “Daily Simple Questions” threads. They were fun to participate and build community. Perhaps make the threads weekly, instead of daily as the community continues to grow with Redfugees.
Don’t worry about the reputation / !check system, though. Upvotes for good advice is sufficient, IMO.
I plan on upgrading my server PC to a modern gen Intel chip. Along with that, I plan on switching to a Linux distro (probably debian).
I have a large hard drive formatted in NTFS. Will it mount okay or will it be an issue when I switch to Linux?
What kinda server? If you’re just slinging files, you don’t need much horsepower on your CPU – I’m using an SBC and a Debian derivative made specifically for that, OpenMediaVault. NTFS mounts okay for reading; writing isn’t recommended to NTFS due to file permissions.
It’ll be general purpose. Mostly Plex but I also host game servers and a bunch of other docker containers on it. I want a good CPU to handle whatever I throw at it.
Yeah you’d likely want a stronger CPU. As an aside, check out Jellyfish as an alternative to Plex, I prefer it.
As for the NTFS issue, I’d likely suggest just going ext4 as the FS on your server. You can mount it in Windows using a roundabout method through WSL2, should you ever need to.
I’ll probably run both Jellyfin and Plex since a of my friends and family are already on Plex.
I’ll eventually move to a proper RAID setup - probably RAID5 - so I’ll just do a full rebuild with drives included.