Hardware raid doesn’t do much to stop silent corruption. At the very least you want to run something like btrfs on top of it.

Definitely don’t use hardware raid

It is fine as long as you are just passing the disks directly to the OS. Do not use hardware raid for data storage.

I would do a outdoor POE camera connected back inside to a WiFi router running OpenWRT. You can then set it up as a WiFi client (base station) and a VPN tunnel.

I would also look into Netbird since it is easier to manage.

That would make a lot of sense if the boot drive is using the same controller

Check dmesg

Your bottle necked by memory bandwidth

You need ddr5 with lots of memory channels for it to he useful

It is actually really useful

You can search mountains and have mountains show up

…that one little detail everyone missed

What we need is Jellyfin TV. I think that would be so cool