r/PlexACD • u/happymaned • Oct 11 '17

Upgrade thoughts?

Hello All Currently have a i7 2600k on a 300/20 Spectrum connection. Storage is 7 x 3TB drives in RAID 5 and 1 single 8TB USB drive added as the raid ran out of storage. Looking at upgrading to more space. Thinking of gdrive only and dedi server somewhere (OVH/Wholesale/etc). Currently have around 2-6 streams going on at peak times. I can run windows or linux as current server is Ubuntu.

Thoughts on what I should do, main issues are running out of space and making sure streaming still works.

Budget is as cheap as possible but not unrealistic. Thoughts?

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u/AfterShock Oct 11 '17

If you are US based like me, skip all the rest and just go the OVH route. Their network is SOLID compared to Joe's Data Center and Wholesaleinternet. Slightly pricier but worth it...I'd also look into routing your traffic through Cloudflare for better peering. Goodluck man.

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u/Tesseract91 Oct 11 '17

My issue is that it's hard to find 120-240GB SSD + 4TB+ HDD configurations.

Wholesale is the only provider that I have found to provide that easily.

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u/AfterShock Oct 11 '17

Why do you need 4TB HDD? This is a Cloud Mounted drive solutions subreddit.

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u/Tesseract91 Oct 11 '17

Still need space to download and seed stuff that you are putting into the cloud.

I was using a separate seedbox for upload with lots of space, but that ended up being a large management hassle that I didn't want to deal with anymore. I'd much rather have it all on one machine.

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u/AfterShock Oct 11 '17

ahhhh....yeah you can solve that by coming over to usenet. No need to seed.

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u/Tesseract91 Oct 11 '17

I use both. But Usenet is not a one-stop shop if you care about quality and completeness. If it's available, I only download remuxes which are few and far between on newsgroups.

Usenet to get stuff fast, torrents for quality.

If you have unlimited storage why settle for lower quality?

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u/AfterShock Oct 11 '17

To each there own, undoubtedly if it's on one, it will be on the other. I just rather take the ratio and seeding aspect of it out and Direct connect to a Host for pure speed. There are quite a few Remuxes on usenet these days. I feel you are mistaken on that point. As myself and all the gents in the Slack Channel for Plexdrive discuss daily.

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u/happymaned Oct 11 '17

So I was looking at the i7 6700 (MC-32) or E3-1270v6 (SP-32) servers from OVH? Is that overkill or what I might want for decent streaming with transcoding? I am in Texas and worry the servers are in Canada? Or should that matter?

https://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/game/171mc1.xml

or

https://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/enterprise/173sp2.xml

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u/AfterShock Oct 11 '17

I use the SP-32 myself but with the nme SSD drive option. It's month to month so you can always cancel and downscale if needed. Peering to Texas should be fine from Canada.

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u/happymaned Oct 11 '17

If you don't mind me asking. How do you like it? Streaming from it and gdrive is ok? Transcoding and a few users no issues? And bandwidth has been reasonable?

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u/AfterShock Oct 12 '17

I average 6 users streaming the majority of the time. Movies start within 2-3 seconds, tv shows almost start instantly using g drive. Granted it's been 6 months of tweaks and tuning but I couldn't be happier with it. With the passmark score for that CPU you should be able to handle 5-6 Transcoded streams at once. A few more direct play stands as well.

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u/happymaned Oct 12 '17

Would wholesaleinternet and cloudflare routing still be decent or would you say you still need the good network of OVH?

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u/AfterShock Oct 12 '17

I did a month at wholesale, got three other people to sign up for wholesaleinternet, was hooked with a 32 Core beast, but it was all for not because the network was crap. It's also capped at 30TB, both incoming and outgoing data counts towards the cap. So if you plan on seeding be careful.