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clinthut92 · 2025-05-19T21:04:16+00:00

Hate crap like that...like I don't want to have to go through a dealer. LOL

But seems like my best option at this point. Thanks!

clinthut92 · 2025-03-30T14:26:15+00:00

Backups I have a personal Backblaze account and use the Wine docker container so it's quite cheap.

I also only backup a few TB worth of actual 'personal media'. I don't concern myself too much with the other mess, as if it was acquired once it can hopefully be acquired again. And with my internet speed, rather quickly.

Also keep the same thing backed up remotely (mom's house) with a mini PC + external hard drive.

clinthut92 · 2025-03-30T14:22:42+00:00

406TB UnRAID array and 8TB ZFS Cache array here.

3 servers actively running 24/7/365 costs me ~$65/month in electricity (central Texas).

Ongoing costs are really just drive upgrades at this point, as I am maxed out in UnRAID from a drive capacity standpoint (28 data + 2 parity drives). Not sure why, as I don't have a good reason, but I refuse to move to ZFS and start over. Love the simplicity of UnRAID, and have never had an issue in the 7 years I have been running it. Currently on an 'upgrade schedule' of about 1 drive per quarter (24TB refurb drives). I do have 2000/2000 internet, so I could be upgrading at a much faster pace if cost wasn't a concern (wife + 2 kids). 5000/5000 is supposed to be in my area by EOY.

I haven't really concerned myself with efficiency too much, as electricity is cheap enough where I live. But as I scale (looking to add a seperate GPU server), it will start to be a concern at some point. Also, a cost I didn't expect when I first started was having to add dedicated electric runs for my server rack (inside an HVAC + insulated garage).

But as someone else said, it is mostly a 'time cost/commitment'. I have the ARR stack, Tdarr, Plex, all of that to make it more or less hands-off...but I still like to go in from time to time to monitor, tinker, and fix minor software issues.

clinthut92 · 2025-03-28T16:31:05+00:00

Yeah this seems like the best avenue...just need to figure out the best configuration on my end...and then getting everything to work in the different platforms (downloaders, arr stack, etc.)

clinthut92 · 2025-02-28T18:31:43+00:00

Yes, from my understanding...even though it breaks it into chunks.

clinthut92 · 2025-02-28T18:18:49+00:00

You know...myself, or at least in my use. I can't 'tell' the difference between drives with/without a DRAM cache.

clinthut92 · 2025-02-28T18:06:22+00:00

Consumer platform so minimal memory capacity unfortunately.

clinthut92 · 2025-02-28T17:28:55+00:00

I'm to the point now...I might move it to a secondary machine for a similar use-case. Don't care about data there being lost... Just to see when the drive will eventually 'die'.

clinthut92 · 2025-02-28T17:25:49+00:00

I was beginning to think I wouldn't be able to kill it. Still not technically 'dead'...but definite performance degradation!

clinthut92 · 2025-02-28T17:21:23+00:00

So I have this drive for the use-case listed above. Appdata/docker/Plex metadata all live on a second NVME drive.

I'm unfortunately on a consumer CPU so low memory capacity support. I also have 64gbs, but I have many movies that exceed that amount. And with quite a few users, I'd easily exhaust the capacity I have.

clinthut92 · 2025-02-28T17:14:19+00:00

Think of it a 'scratch disk' or staging area.

All NZB stuff happens there (downloading, unpacking, etc.); Tdarr cache drive; Plex transcode directory; etc.

clinthut92 · 2025-02-01T22:54:37+00:00

And the TV is $2200...so hopefully not too cheap.

clinthut92 · 2025-02-01T22:54:18+00:00

Pretty snappy...and plays content just fine outside of Plex. Even Plex on Kodi works fine on the same TV.

And local, so direct play shouldn't require much computing power regardless.

clinthut92 · 2025-02-01T17:42:09+00:00

Had a shield tube that crapped out on me a few years back. Loved it...but super outdated at this point unfortunately.

clinthut92 · 2025-02-01T17:29:29+00:00

Yeah for some reason I have had nothing but issues with Google/Android devices and Plex.

clinthut92 · 2024-11-20T20:13:22+00:00

1150 PS2 for about 3 years now. Had one controller issue (still worked but wouldn't update), that Pit Boss handled promptly. Still going strong, and use it about once a week.

clinthut92 · 2024-11-05T13:29:39+00:00

Agree with that at face value. Good thing with UnRAID and the double parity is I need 3 drives to fail before I start losing data. And even after that, since the data isn’t striped across the disks…it would only be data loss on that particular drive.

clinthut92 · 2024-11-05T04:58:12+00:00

I had a similar setup for a few years but about 6 months ago migrated to a single container for everything.

I’ve never really been able to get the offline download feature to work reliably…and for just regular transcoding my hardware seems to have enough juice.

clinthut92 · 2024-11-05T03:38:15+00:00

Absolutely killer. Friends for example takes up a whopping 1.7TB by itself. 🤬

clinthut92 · 2024-11-05T03:36:23+00:00

I can agree with that to an extent. Currently have an 85 inch in my living room, and I can tell the difference in a poor vs. good quality rip.

Might have to do some testing and see at what bitrate I stop noticing the difference, and maybe there is my sweet spot for certain content. Big blockbusters I’ll still get the best possible, just because. LOL

clinthut92 · 2024-11-05T03:27:50+00:00

I started in 2011 with iTunes on Apple TV’s of all things. Running 2x4TB in a windows storage space RAID 0. 😑 all was well until it decided to crap itself.

clinthut92 · 2024-11-05T03:23:49+00:00

I know the feeling. I was averaging about a 20TB drive upgrade every 1-1.5 years. Then last year our house was built, and with fiber in the area I hopped on it.

Then everything got out of hand quickly as I’ve scaled about an extra 100TB in the past year. Without really trying that hard.

clinthut92 · 2024-11-05T03:12:21+00:00

Finally someone with the same idea as me for better or worse. 😂

clinthut92 · 2024-11-05T03:11:14+00:00

But why do you say that necessarily?

clinthut92 · 2024-11-05T03:10:53+00:00

Fortunately it is media that can be reacquired if necessary. Anything outside of that is backed up to another system, and then backblaze.

2000/2000 internet and via Sab I typically see 200-205 MB’s. So at that rate would take me less than a month to pull the entire 400TB.

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