# Introduction If you belong to the group of people who can say, “I bought a Raspberry Pi years ago just because they’re cool but I have no real use for it,” then you are not alone — there is at least one other member 👋. When not being used to host experimental Discord bots, my Raspberry Pi 4B largely lays around collecting dust. I probably should migrate most of my software from my home server (a Lenovo ThinkStation P330 Tiny) to my Pi, as I would like that computer to be a dedicated media server.

# Introduction My day job involves working with large datasets, and I often need to share terabytes of data with coworkers. That’s all well and good—provided your company doesn’t mind paying egress fees, sharing network folders, or swapping external hard drives. A few months ago, I needed to adapt some existing code for our use case. Before I could do that, I had to get it running with the original dataset which was just over a terabyte in size.

# Introduction About two years ago, a friend found half a dozen ThinkStation P330 Tinys for sale by a local CAD company that was upgrading their machines. $130 and a fresh install of Ubuntu Server later I was the proud owner of my first home server and, as I would soon come to find out, constant source of stress. My first attempt at a media stack included Jellyfin, Radarr, Transmission, and Jackett.