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  • description: Perfect Media Server Part 3 is finally here. In this full step-by-step guide, I install Proxmox from scratch and build a working open source home media server using MergerFS, SnapRAID, Samba, Docker, and Jellyfin. By the end, we have storage mounted, disks pooled, parity configured, network shares working, and a Jellyfin server ready to use. This guide is for anyone who wants to build a flexible NAS or media server from used hardware, mismatched hard drives, and free open source software. We cover Proxmox installation, static IP setup, stable disk IDs, formatting and mounting drives, MergerFS pooling, SnapRAID parity and checksumming, Docker Compose, Samba shares, Jellyfin setup, and Intel Quick Sync hardware transcoding. Links mentioned in the video: Perfect Media Server guide: https://perfectmediaserver.com/ Part 3 written guide: https://perfectmediaserver.com/03-installation/manual-install-proxmox/ Jellyfin June: https://perfectmediaserver.com/jellyfinjune/ Proxmox downloads: https://www.proxmox.com/en/downloads Balena Etcher: https://etcher.balena.io/ Rufus: https://rufus.ie/ Proxmox VE Helper Scripts: https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/ Docker install: https://get.docker.com/ Healthchecks: https://healthchecks.io/ Jellyfin: https://jellyfin.org/ Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:38 Perfect Media Server philosophy 03:00 Tech Stack (recap) 05:49 SnapRAID overview 08:50 Hardware specs - Example Build 11:38 Step-by-step overview 15:53 Booting from the USB installer 18:16 Installing Proxmox itself 24:37 Proxmox First Steps 34:41 Installing mergerfs 36:27 Hard Drive setup 38:21 Identifying drives 40:03 Partitioning disks 43:33 Mounting the disks 45:36 Mount a drive with existing partitions / data 47:33 Configure mergerfs 49:44 SnapRAID 53:29 Configure SnapRAID 54:38 Automate parity syncs 59:25 docker 59:56 appdata 1:03:17 Spinning up Jellyfin via docker 1:07:11 File sharing via Samba / Creating a local user 1:13:21 mergerfs demo 1:15:44 Configuring quicksync in Jellyfin
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