Disney is raking its customers over the coals with a 75% price hike for their annual subscription (originally $80.) People wonder why piracy is on the rise.
Disney is raking its customers over the coals with a 75% price hike for their annual subscription (originally $80.) People wonder why piracy is on the rise.
Just built a 50TB Plex server, get fucked mouse
I guess it wasn’t about the price for you then
It’s the principal of the matter. Plus it’s fun. Get fucked mouse!
over time it probably balances out
Same here. So much better than any streaming service. There’s a small initial cost to get started but it’s worth every penny.
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For Plex? No. It’s running on a $150 Amazon minipc lol
What does that 50TB look like? I’m pushing up against 25 at this point but it’s shamefully all usb hdds plugged into a usb strip in a mini pc, and it’s less than ideal.
That’s filthy
Buy a NAS unit such as a Synology DS923+
Add 4 drives to it of equal size. One drive’s worth of space will be sacrificed for redundancy and they’ll all be combined into a single storage drive.
I have 4x 18TB drives giving me just under 50TB of usable storage. Any single drive can fail with no data loss, and I just replace it and keep going.
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Good point. I’m personally not doing any transcoding so it doesn’t affect me.
Chulaplex who started this thread was very clear that they were going to be using it for Plex, as such, transcoding is a very important aspect.
I’m using a mini PC for the transcode so the proc in the nas doesn’t matter, it’s just storage. The mini pcs on Amazon are way more powerful than anything you’ll find in a standalone
I love it. That works fine but if you want a weekend project consider doing something like this:
Buy a Fractal Define 7XL.
Shuck all those HDDs and put them in the case. Buy one more disk, as large or larger than the largest disk.
Buy 8GB RAM, cheap mobo, cheap Pentium gold CPU, and reasonably reliable power supply. Also buy either a SATA or HBA PCI adapter.
Install unRAID and Plex. Use that extra drive for parity. Now your data is protected if a drive fails. They also won’t get so hot, and speed will be much better. You also have lots of capacity for more drives.
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Amazon has Chinese usb enclosures for $150, that’s what I’m using.
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Fuck no
When I built my latest Plex server, I chose to put ECC RAM into it. But it was a pain getting all the hardware, due to the silly rules AMD has for ECC support and iGPU support in its chips.
What? Unless you’re running an actual commercial scale website, no, nobody needs ECC.
If you are planning to use zfs its worth a few extra bucks for ecc.
It can be far more than “a few extra bucks.” It’s not just buying more expensive ram, but you need a compatible motherboard and processor as well.
It can be. It doesn’t have to be. If ECC is too expensive I recommend avoiding ZFS.
Like ECC there’s little to no benefit for the average user to use ZFS.
I agree. I didn’t realize we were talking about average users. I thought we were talking about people building NAS.
I’m talking about the average person building a media server to cut out monthly streaming or cable costs. They don’t need or even know ZFS.