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  • Geez.. who bothers with 4K? Unless it's prem sexytime videos then I digress

  • @Daniel15 said:

    @yoursunny said: YouTube has even more content, and all of them have 5 different resolutions.

    YouTube also has slightly more compute power than users of LowEndTalk :tongue:

    @marvel said: I already see myself in a hotel room with a date. Hey let's watch a movie! Ah yes wait I have to fire up my compute node first, connect my storage box. Oh wait the bandwidth is not sufficient, hang on I'll re-encode the movie to a lower resolution, this will only take 4 hours and 25 minutes.

    That's why it's "Netflix and chill", not "/r/selfhosted Plex server and chill"

    @azrael0528 said: ive decided to build a local server at home and run plex off it

    You could consider building a rackmount server and colocating it :smile: The issue I'd have with hosting a Plex server at home is that I'm in California where electricity is relatively expensive, and my internet connection doesn't have good upload speeds. I know a few people that colo with Hurricane Electric in Fremont - Not sure how much they charge for a single 1U server, but they have an offer for $400/month for a 42U cabinet, so some people just get a bunch of friends (each with their own servers) and all chip in.

    Thats actually a pretty good idea. Let me work it out and see what I can do.

  • user54321user54321 Member
    edited January 2021

    @its420somewhere said:
    Geez.. who bothers with 4K? Unless it's prem sexytime videos then I digress

    Well everyone with a TV? If you had your time with UHD and Dolbyvision or HDR there is no return, normal Blurays and streaming look like shit compared to it.
    I pretty much own any UHD Bluray movie that does exists which are over 500 movies

    root@debian:~# du -sh /media/
    24T     /media/
    
  • This is pretty close.

    First a Dedicated Server with 24TB (58,00 €) if your plex pass go i7 it support quicksync hardward transcoding.

    https://www.hetzner.com/sb?hddcount_from=3&hdd_from=6000&hdd_to=13000

    then add 20TB of NAS Storage (47.48 €)

    https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/bx60

    Dedicated server with 44TB space for 105.48 €

  • marvelmarvel Member
    edited January 2021

    @Reaperofpower said:
    This is pretty close.

    First a Dedicated Server with 24TB (58,00 €) if your plex pass go i7 it support quicksync hardward transcoding.

    https://www.hetzner.com/sb?hddcount_from=3&hdd_from=6000&hdd_to=13000

    then add 20TB of NAS Storage (47.48 €)

    https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/bx60

    Dedicated server with 44TB space for 105.48 €

    That storage box is only 10 TB.

    Plus, what are you going to do with 4 x 6 TB, you need RAID5 at the minimum so you only net 18T which is 28T total.

    And, that 24 TB server has no SSD boot drives, so all your Plex metadata, torrents etc will need to be hosted on that same RAID5. Imagine playing movies, unpacking RARs, seeding torrents all with the (write) speed of 1 spinning disk.

    So for performance you need at least RAID10 then you net 12T total + 10T = 22T for 105.48 €.

  • @marvel said:

    @Reaperofpower said:
    This is pretty close.

    First a Dedicated Server with 24TB (58,00 €) if your plex pass go i7 it support quicksync hardward transcoding.

    https://www.hetzner.com/sb?hddcount_from=3&hdd_from=6000&hdd_to=13000

    then add 20TB of NAS Storage (47.48 €)

    https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/bx60

    Dedicated server with 44TB space for 105.48 €

    That storage box is only 10 TB.

    Plus, what are you going to do with 4 x 6 TB, you need RAID5 at the minimum so you only net 18T which is 28T total.

    And, that 24 TB server has no SSD boot drives, so all your Plex metadata, torrents etc will need to be hosted on that same RAID5. Imagine playing movies, unpacking RARs, seeding torrents all with the (write) speed of 1 spinning disk.

    So for performance you need at least RAID10 then you net 12T total + 10T = 22T for 105.48 €.

    Your right not sure why I thought it was 20tb for the storage box, I took his needs at face value so raid 0 max storage. While a ssd boot drive is great it's not required. You can cache to ram so 64gb of ram will allow plenty of space and transcoding happens in ram also so speed is not an issue. Good point but nothing I would say is a requirement

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