Ever since Google Photos removed its free storage tier, I have seen my google drive storage usage balloon. I had an old laptop laying around and decided to put it to use. This is immich, a self-hosted photo storage system, ingesting 39000 of mine and my family’s photos. I have it running in a mirrored ZFS pool - which means I get some redundancy for my data. And I can finally free up some storage on my google drive.
If anyone is interested I’d be happy to share my self-hosting progress.
Machine Specs
Machine 1 Lenovo Y50-70:
- CPU: i7 4710HQ
- RAM: 16GB DDR4
- Storage: 1TB mirrored ZFS pool
- OS: Proxmox
- Turnkey File Server - Samba Share
- Immich
- AudioBookshelf
- Kavita
- ChatGPT API Wrapper - cheaper than a $20 monthly subscription
- Trillium
Machine 2: Old Netbook:
- CPU: Atom
- RAM: 2gb
- OS: Debian Linux
- Network UPS Tools Server, the other machines as clients - to gracefully shut down my home lab in case of power outage