The audio icon works but only for mic... Uploading files seems to be useless as the model (any I have installed) just keep saying it cannot see the file and to give it a web link instead...
How that does it even work? Why can it grab an url but not a local uploaded file?
Yes, more redindancy is good and indeed worth having. Still 5 12tb drives are probably yet more energy and heat efficient than 10 4tb ones.
Even if I had 10 4tb for free I wouldn't use them. Maybe a couple for backup reasons or cold storage, but not active 24/7 for a domestic raid environment.
I actually have 4 6tb hdds that I dismissed for the 4 8tb sdds, and I use two for local backup and keep two spares to replace them when they will fail.
4 8tb in raid5 provide 24tb total space that its far more than I need, and the risk of a double failure is mitogated by a proper 3,2,1 backup strategy in place
As for the higher I/o frankly I never felt the need. 1gbps home network is always the bottleneck anyway and if you require such disk troughput on your network, you are doing something wrong anyway.
Even many 4k video streams would sturate your lan before saturating your disks unless you store uncompressed video streams.
I wouldn't use more than 4 or 6 disks in a home environment. Specially with mechanical drivers, power consumption 24/7 would get me very worried.
I run 4 x 8Tb SSDs, not cheap, but solid, low power AND low heat (even more important).
Consider also heat dissipation as most likely at home you don't have a constant temperature and humidity, so many spinning disks can suffer from heat, and that will kill them faster
Longevity... With so much space I would expect to keep it running a decade or more... So factor in 10x365x24 hours of operation, energy consumed, heat dissipation and failure rate.
On top of that, whatever gpu and ram you throw at it is meaningless, whatever wi work, even an Intel n100 NUC. Having enough cables and port instead... Well.
I plugged in an NVIDIA gpu in my server and enabled ollama to use it, diligently updated my public wiki about it and now enjoying real time gpt: OSS model responses!
I was amazed, time cut from 3-8 minutes down to seconds. I have a Intel Core7 with 48gb ram, but even an oldish gpu beats the crap out of it.
No experience with tailscale, but I have opnSense on a firewall appliance like yours and run two wireguard networks one from the opn itself and one from my home server, which is in the DMZ. They all work just fine...
They have different scope and remote peers, but both use my VPS as enter gateway since I am CGNATted.
I also wrote mine, a bit of JavaScript that load a json file and populate the page.