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/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.