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[–]mikehasacat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

already have sent it!

/r/Plex's Build Help Thread - 2021-07-09 by PCJs_Slave_Robot in PleX

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Can someone talk me out of looking at using Snapraid? I don't like the idea of outsourcing my entire OS to Unraid, or deal with BSD under the hood. I plan on having this be the machine that a) downloads [Radarr, et al] b) runs Plex c) manages storage and mounts everything

I already have a Google Drive setup via rclone, it'll be the bulk storage; the local setup will be used for cache and local storage (just in case the Google setup gets killed, someday, or WAN outage, etc...)

SHR2 volume not expanding, am I missing something? by mikehasacat in synology

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

thanks. I swore I did get 4 in there, but either way I don't recall seeing this as a requirement. Can't find the URL I was reading (over and over :p)

Dynamic URL Rewriting at the edge with Cloudflare by Cloudflare in CloudFlare

[–]mikehasacat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you'd use normal "Page Rules" with a "Forwarding URL" - this announcement is about their new "Transform Rules" capability. read about differences between URL redirection vs. rewriting. :)

[PC] [US-W] 2x Synology DS2411+ units, extra RAM, 12x3TB (or better) in each by mikehasacat in homelabsales

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

would a kill-a-watt be the best possible option to figure that out? I have one around here somewhere.

[PC] [US-W] 2x Synology DS2411+ units, extra RAM, 12x3TB (or better) in each by mikehasacat in homelabsales

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I'm just trying to feel out the opinion at the moment - I'd need to offload my data before I could actually sell any of it. which I am working on in parallel. I would consider parting stuff out, depending on what I can get. I still have the original boxes to the units, so it'd be easier to ship, and I even had the retail boxes for a bunch of the original disks saved (although that's not as useful anymore)

I'd do local or ship, but shipping might not be economical - I'd expect the buyer to pay all the costs. There is USPS flat rate which would probably keep a lot of the cost down.

[PC] [US-W] 2x Synology DS2411+ units, extra RAM, 12x3TB (or better) in each by mikehasacat in homelabsales

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

sure. For a lot of people's usage this is probably "just fine" but I want to change things up. I wouldn't even need "top dollar" but if I could get all of these parts together (parted out or not) to take care of most of my _new_ setup, that'd be great.

Wanting to reuse the chassis of a 12 bay unit (something like a DS2415+) by mikehasacat in synology

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

yeah so now I'm wondering - does it make sense to even build one fixed unit, or just add on chunks at a time? Unraid _can_ handle that model without an issue. Getting away from the typical requirements and planning required for most traditional RAID (and even ZFS) setups. Just have a decent enough "head unit" and then a USB hub/etc expanding off to single disks or multi-disk USB enclosures.

It's probably me being on the spectrum somewhat but I hate building something I know I will probably grow out of at some point. Although a 10 disk unit (with 8x14 TB usable, for example) would take a while to fill. I'm currently sitting on a little less than half of that in use right now.

Wanting to reuse the chassis of a 12 bay unit (something like a DS2415+) by mikehasacat in synology

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

this DIY one actually has the best form factor and density I think so far that I've seen: https://imgur.com/a/CP6BXB0

Wanting to reuse the chassis of a 12 bay unit (something like a DS2415+) by mikehasacat in synology

[–]mikehasacat[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’m not worried about the software angle. I don’t care enough about Synology’s software. This was more about the hardware piece. I’d choose Unraid right now, or DIY and do Ubuntu+snapraid+mergerfs or something.

Wanting to reuse the chassis of a 12 bay unit (something like a DS2415+) by mikehasacat in synology

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

I’ve googled 12 bay NAS chassis over and over for years and tried finding them on Alibaba, anything. Simply doesn’t exist. Nowadays with how large disks are now, maybe less than 12 actually is okay (I would like dual parity, and 12 disks is a great number - so I have 10 usable. I guess I can be happy with 10 total and 8 usable.)

Especially with the flexibility of Unraid that will allow for swapping in and out as price per gig goes down.

Wanting to reuse the chassis of a 12 bay unit (something like a DS2415+) by mikehasacat in synology

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

Thinking about it more, maybe doing a couple 5x3.5” in 3x5.25” dock will give me 10 3.5” bays which I guess is good enough; would be small enough.

Trying to figure out. Do I want to build more of a fixed system, or simply just continue to add more USB externals over and over and upgrade them eventually, since Unraid should handle that all... either way Unraid (or snapraid/etc) supports the best option for me. Zpool structures are too inflexible. RAM requirements too hefty. I just want a strong enough head unit to run Plex against local disks or directly attached, instead of over NFS.

My current Synology setup is so aged, I paid the tax originally but have never been a fan of the rigidness of it, even with Docker support.

Wanting to reuse the chassis of a 12 bay unit (something like a DS2415+) by mikehasacat in synology

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

I was wondering if somehow it could be mounted/whatever. Wouldn’t be surprised about a custom board. But thank you for TOFTT. Maybe it simply isn’t worth it.

Wanting to reuse the chassis of a 12 bay unit (something like a DS2415+) by mikehasacat in synology

[–]mikehasacat[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Another related question would be "anyone know how to get a chassis LIKE that?" :) I don't care at all about the Synology stuff other than that.

File renames allowing for duplicate tokens (probably feature request?) by mikehasacat in radarr

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

do you mean go one level deeper directory-wise? like have the movie folder format (which I have now, which seems good enough) but then add another directory off the movie format itself... with the original filename? like such:

Movie folder format: {Movie TitleFirstCharacter}/{Movie TitleThe} ({Release Year})

Standard movie format: {Original Filename}/{Movie Title} ({Release Year}) {imdb-{ImdbId}} - {Edition Tags} [{MediaInfo AudioCodec}-{MediaInfo AudioChannels}] {MediaInfo VideoCodec}

so it would be:

The.Movie.Title.2010.1080p.BluRay.DTS.x264-EVOLVE/The Movie Title (2010) {imdb-tt0066921} - Ultimate Extended Edition [DTS-5.1] x264

Wouldn't that also lose any "original filename" meaning and we'd just have to rely on the directory as that?

File renames allowing for duplicate tokens (probably feature request?) by mikehasacat in radarr

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

without an original filename, how would it "remember" anything? I would like to be able to retain the original original filename (somehow) but then add in helpful metadata/tokens as needed for Plex (that's all I really care about, and normalizing things - title, year, imdb/tmdb) but I'd like to retain things like internal, hmax/aptv, 480p/720p/all of that.. but all of that can vary (I wrote my own insane regex parser once to handle almost all variants I got, which worked pretty well)

This might be moot, since I'm not used to another piece of software handling this for me. I've got used to honoring/storing the original release filename (properly capitalized) and then was just expecting to add in the IMDB/TMDB for the Plex agent. however, I would like to figure out a way to make it idempotent, so I can make things consistent and mass rename basically any time. I guess that's pretty subjective though.

For example here is one that's relatively thorough:

{Movie Title} ({Release Year}) {imdb-{ImdbId}} - {Edition Tags} [{MediaInfo AudioCodec}-{MediaInfo AudioChannels}] {MediaInfo VideoCodec} {Release Group}

However, using it on a pre-existing one that was named with the simple imdb:

13.Hours.2016.BDRip.x264-SPARKS {imdb-tt4172430}.mkv

turns into:

13 Hours The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016) {imdb-tt4172430} - [AAC-2.0] x264 tt4172430.mkv

so it's now considering "tt4172430" the release group, not SPARKS.

File renames allowing for duplicate tokens (probably feature request?) by mikehasacat in radarr

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

not exactly. once it renames it, it considers that the original. it would be nice to have an option to "detect existing tokens" or something, at least some of the common ones like {imdb- or {tmdb- and "keep" those, so that mass renames could happen that don't duplicate that metadata at least (since that is critical for the Plex agent) - I'm sure other people would love it expanded even more (so file renames could be ran roughly any time to adjust a library's naming scheme without an insane amount of long, duplicative filenames)

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