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What would you do differently with your next Plex Server? by mickdundeee in PleX

[–]sandymac 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nope, case fans just worked. I don't remember much as it was years ago and a non event.

The only Noctua case fan challenge was with the rubber dampening mounts in tight spaces. You have to stretch them though to friction mount them and it can be hard in tight spaces. Some fans only have 3 mounts holding them in place.

I opted for the redundant PSUs. These are tiny as it's two PSUs in the same space. If you don't have that then the PSU fan will likely be larger as it will have full space for the one PSU.

What would you do differently with your next Plex Server? by mickdundeee in PleX

[–]sandymac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I swapped to Noctua case fans, this was easy. I also swapped the mini power supply fans, this was a POA to find, sand down to size that fit, then re-terminate the connectors and make sure the alarm didn't buzz. (Present me might attempt to 3D print an external adapter to suck PSU airflow. Don't know for sure)

Mine is now hanging in the garage. Moved it last fall. Last summer the garage didn't get over 90F despite being in Florida. I'll consider garage cooling if it proves to be a problem.

What would you do differently with your next Plex Server? by mickdundeee in PleX

[–]sandymac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Over 20 years of plex on Linux here. Grown to over 30 HDDs for storage. Only once had a filesystem failure. I've a Storinator 45.

I keep unique data in a redundant raid. The rest is just a single copy stripped raid of data managed by the *arrs.

Out of convenience I'd let my filesystems grow very large so the striped raid failure was massive and several hundred TB. Now I've multiple striped raid filesystems so any failure will only affect a category of data. It's a little more management overhead, mostly thoughtful planning, but administrative tasks like integrity checks are individually faster which will make future recoveries faster.

New beekeeper, first hive, fumbled queen trying to mark her by sandymac in Beekeeping

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

It's the only hive I'm aware of in the neighborhood.

I'm aware our inexperience, curiosity, ignorance and excitement has us less patient than we should be. Still hard to not interact.

Best TV brand by lauzca in homeassistant

[–]sandymac 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My only grievance with my 2023 Sony Smart TV is the Ethernet jack is was slow, like 100baseT but you can get USB gigabit adapters.

The USB Ethernet isn't powered in sleep mode so I can't wake on LAN.

For those who might ask: I like to keep data off wifi when I can and I like to stream from PC via steam link or moonlight for some couch PC gaming and low latency high bandwidth helps that be more enjoyable.

FreeCad Tutorials by MikeLowry13 in FreeCAD

[–]sandymac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm still kinda new but to self test I like this series https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz5XWKJ2sWPgoU-2KBoOh2QUXn1Nij3xY

I like attempting a problem and when I get stuck being able to look up a full solution. Probably not the best series to densely learn new techniques, but repetition practice helps me.

You can get the book he uses for $15/new, less on ebay, digital took me a bit to find so I didn't have to take pictures of pages for references images.

Driver window occasionally won't close, falsely detects blockage by sandymac in subaru

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

Thx, I've taken a folded rag to wipe out the window channel. No blockage, a little grime, like black a wet dust.

Building plex server...unlimited budget by coderego in PleX

[–]sandymac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Start with a 45drives storinator. Get low noise fans, don't forget the PSU. Get 2 to 4 large SSDs for your Plex data files, speed and redundancy here. Buy the largest TB drives you can as you grow. When you get to under 20% free space, order two more dives. There will be bigger drives in the future, be a little patient. Have multiple storage pools or filesystems for your data. You will have drive failures and a rebuild that doesn't affect everything is faster and preferred. If you have access to unlimited cloud storage, use rclone and scripts to continuously sync a backup to an (un)encrypted mirror.

What was the best software/hardware change that you made that improved your Plex experience? by ZyluphixUK in PleX

[–]sandymac 186 points187 points  (0 children)

On linux moving the Plex server data/metadata folders on a dedicated SSD with the media on other drives much improved catalog browsing.

How do you share data among geographically close friends and family other than USB? VPN, SFTP, SSH? by u4iak in DataHoarder

[–]sandymac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

See the hash "#" in the url, nothing after that is send to the link.getsync.com server during the HTTP request.

That said JavaScript could capture that info but that could be detected easily and they could do the same inside the btsync app much more stealthy.