built a home server to ditch the cloud ☁️ And honestly, it may NEVER pay for itself based on these storage prices. But I now own the data, in full control, and never get pressed to upgrade to the next tier. I did this using the Beelink ME Mini since it has 6 NVMe slots and installed UmbrelOS on it. Honestly not for the faint of heart but... Here’s how I did it (VERY technical): 1. Install UmbrelOS - Flash umbrelOS USB installer with Balena Etcher → boot mini PC → install to internal NVMe → umbrel.local setup done 2. RAID 5 NVMe Array - Install 4x 4TB NVMe SSDs → SSH umbrel@umbrel.local → mdadm RAID5 LVM → ext4 format → mount /mnt/lvm-storage (11TB) → /etc/fstab persistence 3. Immich Photos - App Store → Immich → edit docker-compose.yml volumes to /mnt/lvm-storage/immich folders using Symlink. 6. Samba Network Share - SSH → sudo apt install samba (App Store version broken)→ add [Umbrel-Storage] share to /etc/samba/smb.conf pointing to /mnt/lvm-storage → sudo smbpasswd um...