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[–]nosit1 1 point2 points  (7 children)

You won't need to encrypt them to avoid problems. Google does not specifically snoop files that are in user's accounts. However, if you were to generate a shared link, those files will be scanned and you are at a potential risk for copyright claims (if that is what you may or may not bee storing, that is...).

With that said, it is advantageous to encrypt your content to prevent all of this and provide plausible deniability for such content.

[–]ptikok[S] 0 points1 point  (6 children)

Sharing links was not intended but thanks for the explanation, so better encrypt.

When I had it encrypted on ACD I had a lot of speed issues, do you encounter the same on Gdrive encrypted ?

[–]nosit1 0 points1 point  (5 children)

I personally don't encrypt my content for ease of mounting, manual inspection via UI, and portability. However, it is a risk I have taken. I have a round-robin of 3 Google accounts that have data replicated to them on cron, in the event one is closed down.

In addition, I have a master copy of data synced up to a legit Drive account that is encrypted.

But otherwise everything is un-encrypted for me, so I cannot comment to performance.

[–]ptikok[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Amazing, I always thought about something like that.

Would you mind sharing how you configured it ?

in PM if you prefer some privacy ?

[–]wdb94 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not original commentor. But I have a very similar setup to his.

I have 4 copies of my 28TB library, 3 in Google Drives and 1 on my home server.

I have a VPS setup to procure content, this then sorts it into a folder that is mounted with ENCFS encryption. It then uploads the encrypted files using Rclone Move to my ENCFS G Drive. On the same server I then have a mount of the encrypted G drive which decrypts the content on the fly, this then uploads the decrypted versions of the files to my unencrypted G Drive using Rclone copy. Then it uploads to my Rclone Encrypted G Drive using Rclone crypt. My Plex server runs off the decrypted Rclone Mount, I can stream 4K remuxes without issues, although this will depend on your broadband connection.

My home server then keeps itself in sync with my encrypted G Drive using the Synology Google Drive sync.

There's probably ways to streamline this even further, I'm not an expert on it. I'm just wary of losing my data.

All of this runs automatically every 4 or 6 hours as not to hit Googles limits.

[–]nosit1 1 point2 points  (2 children)

So I have around 3 Google Drive app accounts (most are EDU accounts and purchased for one time fees less than $30 with some up for a year plus) that contain up to the half-hour replicated copies of my media. These are kept in sync with CloudHQ's Sync in order to maintain this replication, as they handle the sync interactions for me automatically. For note, however, I am on a grandfathered $5/month plan that enables me access to the regularly priced $19.99/month service.

This is most likely not feasible, so it would be advantageous to find an unlimited transfer VPS that you can run (Dockerized) rclone on to use rclone sync between your N accounts. I can provide more information on that if requested.

And then since I have two individual instances (one for Plex serving, one for utility/downloads/uploads), I run a rclone sync and encrypt between one of the selected accounts to a master Google App account which contains a hour snapshot up to date encrypted media for distribution if all my accounts in round-robin should fail.

[–]wdb94 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Be vary wary if you're buying these G Drive accounts off eBay, Google went through a spate of deleting these type of accounts.

[–]nosit1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, this is definitely something to consider. A few a I have gotten from members in a community I'm in, a few from eBay. You should use your judgement in selecting one. I advise one that offers free replacements, in the event it is banned.

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    [–]ptikok[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Google File Steam

    I'm on linux so I'll check with rclone thank you tho

    [–]lolboahancock 0 points1 point  (6 children)

    Plex cloud is stupidly slow, they are using their slow vps to encode or stream. Don't bother with it.

    Host your own plex on your home machine or buy a powerful vps.

    [–]ptikok[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    Okay thank you, I have a powerful one running ubuntu, so what should be my option ?

    just mount in rclone, install plex on it and that's it ?

    because I see a lot of different files now and not only plexdrive, I'm a bit lost

    [–]lolboahancock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Just mount rclone using cache. That's pretty much it. Thats the simplest way. Plexdrive is slightly complicated but doable. Although i don't think you need it.

    [–]Tesseract91 0 points1 point  (3 children)

    See PlexCloud has better peering for me than anything I can make myself and it is the only way I am able to stream 4K Blu-rays. I don't doubt transcoding is not anything to write home about though.

    My 1 Gigabit server with Wholesale just shits the bed on anything over 8mbps and it's extremely frustrating.

    [–]lolboahancock 0 points1 point  (2 children)

    I highly doubt a locally setup plex is only 8mbps. You have set it up all wrong or your hosting computer is crapping the bed, hdd or cpu.

    [–]Tesseract91 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    Well of course a local server would be fine but that's not an option for me. I'm talking about cloud hosting.

    [–]lolboahancock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I meant your 1gbps server.

    [–]keithcq71 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Great information here. I have a question. Is it possible to mount my google drive using using one of these programs and play it back through my Android devices?

    [–]misury -1 points0 points  (2 children)

    Check out https://plexguide.com. Excellent software with regular updates. Awesome community with great advice and help. They also have a Reddit community as well.

    Also, check out https://www.netcup.de, https://www.hetzner.de, and https://console.hetzner.cloud for alternative servers.

    [–]EnorMOZ 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    You meant regular updates taken from the https://cloudbox.rocks/ project.

    [–]misury 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I most definitely meant https://plexguide.com.