Quote (noob_whacker @ Dec 18 2017 12:26am)
dont you loose some video quality when storing the movie files on a VPS instead of your own HDD?
and at $10 a month you could upgrade a new 8tb hdd every year for around that price. can find 8tb hdd for $130
just wondering, maybe im not seeing everything
Plex can stream files on original quality or it can transcode to a lesser quality - depends on the bandwidth and processing power that you have available. But no, the quality of the audio/video is not reduced by virtue of putting the file in cloud storage and streaming remotely.
I used to buy huge hard drives, but it gets to be a bit too much to handle in the long run. Once my library got to about ~10TB or so I started to realize that I don't want to ever lose all of that data, so I needed to buy more hdd storage to have redundancy. Also, rebuilding an array of that size when a drive fails can take a long ass time, so the whole thing becomes a huge pain in the ass. Plus, the server wasn't actually at my house since I don't have a fiber connection - I was borrowing some space at my brother's house where I had my server setup. So for me it just wasn't practical to continue with such a setup. When everything is in the cloud I literally don't have to worry about it, even if the cost comes out to be a bit higher (though don't discount the extra power costs of a local rack mount server with 24 thread cpus that have to transcode all this media).
This post was edited by camopk on Dec 18 2017 12:25am