Digital Nomad Portable Homelab. Open for suggestions

I'm not an IT dev, I don't work in IT but I was always interested in homelabbing. I started working on the above homelab exactly one year ago and I love this hobby. I would like to know if you have any suggestions? I'm thinking of adding a GPU to my homelab for video transcoding and OCR AI (5060ti?) I'm also thinking of adding a Raspberry pi for adguard as the one on the Glinet is overloading the router if it has more than 3 lists. But then I would need a switch and new router because I only have 3 ethernet ports on the one I have now. I also wonder if my HDD backup solution is the best? I have all 4 drives encrypted with LUKS and what I do is that once a week or month I run a script from my laptop that unlocks the 2 HDDs, do a rsync and then I reboot the server and boot into dropbear-ssh and unlock my two main HDDs leaving the 2 backups unmounted and encrypted. I wonder if there is something better? My SSD with all the databases is being backup'd once a week using backrest to my Media HDD. And then I have a syncthing that checks updated folders and sync them with my laptop (and google drive). And is scrutiny enough to see if my HDDs are healthy? I bought the 4 HDDs a year ago, before the AI craze and now they are 2.5x the price. It would be a horror if one of them failed. Thanks so much y'll! submitted by /u/TechNerd-1138 [link] [comments]