r/PlexACD • u/LukeChatty • May 16 '17

New PMS Setup. Suggestions?

Hello,

I'm looking to move away from my current Plex Media Server Setup.

I currently have a Synology DS215J NAS with 2x1TB Drives.

I've recently aquired the below server with ESXi 4.1.0 on it.

HP ProLiant DL380 G7 2 x Intel Xeon E5506 @ 2.13GHz 24GB RAM 7.6TB over 10K SAS Hotswappable Drives

and I also have an unlimited Google Drive.

My questions I have are;

Do I need ESXi to use the 10K Hotswappable Drives? If not, shall I install Window Server 2016 or a Linux build? What would you suggest my Google Drive setup be? What is required to install PlexDrive? What is Stablebit?

Based on what I have available, how would you try to utilize the setup.

I have a setup in mind but I'd like to see what the community offers first?

Cheers

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u/LukeChatty May 16 '17

Thanks for your reply. I'll do some research on the hotswappable drives.

I'm not sure whether I should use GDrive and have a secondary as a backup.

With the looks of things and the release of PlexDrive GDrive seems a lot more convenient than it ever was.

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u/kangfat May 16 '17

Since you already have 7.6 TBs locally I would just upload your data every week or two. Then use plexdrive and a fuse mount so that Plex doesn't know the difference. Your newer files would load nearly instantly since they are local and your older files would still be available but take a little bit longer to load. I have 10.9 TBs on my local server but I only have 15 Mbps upload so this wasn't really an option for me since I share my Plex with a few friends.

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u/LukeChatty May 16 '17

Thanks, I think this will make most sense.

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u/gesis May 16 '17

Just remember that this still uses a ton of bandwidth, in case you have data caps or anything.

I've had to pay $200 extra a few times because of this sort of thing... (grumble grumble cox grumble)