Faceman2K23

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

its super sonic obviously.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

If I was to rebuild it from scratch with new parts but equivalent performance and capacity it owuld only be a couple of grand honestly..

my AV distro gear on the other hand.. oof.. decent small car money, and a terrible investment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well my main server is currently at 16 drives plus 2 SSDs, so 18 total counted for the licence, arranged as 12 drive unraid array and 4 drive ZFS, plus an appdata+vm disk and a general cache disk.

I'd like to go with Ceph eventually, because I think it's a solid platform, but multiple nodes and a heavier duty network backbone would be required to do that properly, also the extra disks required to protect a ZFS array of multiple Vdevs, which is safer and faster sure, but the costs are significantly higher than just buying an unraid licence.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Unraid pro is expensive (compared to free DIY linux or Truenas for example) but it is extremely flexible and very easy to get started with.

Their free trial is very flexible though, and once set up and running most people will already be set and happy to pay for the licence.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Most of it just runs on my unraid box, bunch of Docker containers and a vm for a couple of windows apps I needed running. I also run a small secondary proxmox server with some home automation amd networking stuff that I wanted to stay online when the server is off-line for updates or maintenance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (7 children)

That's why unraid was (in my opinion) a good starting point, you can use whatever disks you have regardless of size and speed and pool them all together pretty easily. Stick jellyin or plex or both on it and you have a great starting server.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Not sure it's more than 10years of slow upgrades. Nothing compared to the true datahoarders out there

Too much probably.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (14 children)

mostly unraid, some ZFS ontop for high priority storage, a couple of TB of SSDs on top of that for caching and ingest.

Just added it all up, its 110TB at the moment, with another 16tb to add in a couple of weeks.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (16 children)

Sonarr/Radarr will do this for you automagically for most TV and Movies, never have to visit a dodgy torrent site again.

Started setting it up years ago and over time re-downloaded all those shitty yify rips with full fat bluray remuxes wherever available and the highest quality possible otherwise. Hit 100tb pretty quickly lol.

I have my rig set up to automatically upgrade to bluray remuxes when available, then once they are older than 1 month and over a certain filesize they get automatically compressed with a fairly slow, low crf H265-10bit encode with FileFlows to cut their size roughly in half while still being visually perfect on the normal TVs, all 4k content stays untouched for the main theatre.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Cause OpenZFS just published a nice bug fix, so unraid gets a version bump.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Big Agree, I watched Lain around the same time as I was reading a lot and the books I read at the time were similarly prophetic (Nueromancer, Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, Permutation City) all right around the time of peak "The Matrix" hype..

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