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Dec 5 2017 05:45am
Recently turned my gaming pc into a plex media server and looking to upgrade storage options. I had been running off 2 2TB external drives but would like to change to some internal ones, potentially raid 1 setup.

My main concern, if i install 2 4TB internal as raid 1 now, how difficult will it be to add drives in the future? Would i need to backup the files before adding and then start the raid process again or could i simply pop the new drives in?
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Dec 5 2017 05:55am
Hey nice. I'm in the Plex Media Server race as well :D
Currently sitting on 20TB of WD Red storage.

You cannot add another drive to a raid 1. You would simply have to move all the files to the new HDD and delete the volume.
Raid 6 or 10 is the way to go if you know you want to expand at some point. Tho you would need 3 or 4+ HDD's

I currently YOLO it ^^ (used to JBOD as well)
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Quote (ZwiX @ Dec 5 2017 12:55pm)
Hey nice. I'm in the Plex Media Server race as well :D
Currently sitting on 20TB of WD Red storage.

You cannot add another drive to a raid 1. You would simply have to move all the files to the new HDD and delete the volume.
Raid 6 or 10 is the way to go if you know you want to expand at some point. Tho you would need 3 or 4+ HDD's

I currently YOLO it ^^ (used to JBOD as well)
https://i.imgur.com/mPoIVsL.png



I am sure i will add storage later, but probably not for a long while. I did pick up 2x8TB WD easystores yeterday as part of the Best Buy sale, plan on pulling the hd’s out and using them as internals. $140 each with free shipping.

Running them in raid 1 should hold me over for a long while.
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Dec 17 2017 05:42pm
Buying hard drives is a meme tbh. I have all of my content in a gsuite business account which is $10/month + tax for unlimited storage. I installed the plex app on a VPS that has Xeon CPUs and gigabit speed. I use Stablebit Clouddrive to encrypt all of the content in Gsuite and create a virtual drive of that content in the VPS. Once you get it all setup it requires very little maintenance and you never have to worry about downtime.
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Dec 17 2017 05:50pm
Quote (camopk @ Dec 17 2017 06:42pm)
Buying hard drives is a meme tbh. I have all of my content in a gsuite business account which is $10/month + tax for unlimited storage. I installed the plex app on a VPS that has Xeon CPUs and gigabit speed. I use Stablebit Clouddrive to encrypt all of the content in Gsuite and create a virtual drive of that content in the VPS. Once you get it all setup it requires very little maintenance and you never have to worry about downtime.



Okay... requesting decrypted English version plz.

- What is gsuite?
- what is Stablebit?
- plex app is on the cloud or local?
- what is a vps?
- how do you get gigabit speed? - comcast charges me a buttload and lucky to be at 70Mbps

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Uhh no offense but did you even try to use google?

I use Turnkey for the virtual private server ($40/month, i get about 400/400 internet - use coupon code GREEN17 for 10% off) and had them install Windows Server 2012 R2. That's where I installed the plex app. Stablebit Cloud drive connects the plex app to the content in Gsuite and encrypts all the content. I encrypt the files because I don't want Google to ban my account, but I have heard from other people that it is not necessary. https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/6cp84t/stablebit_clouddrive/dhwk6du/

https://turnkeyinternet.net/cloud-hosted-virtual-servers-vps/
https://stablebit.com/
https://gsuite.google.com/pricing
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Dec 17 2017 11:26pm
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
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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


no, unless the video was re-encoded


and

lose*

This post was edited by JohnMiller92 on Dec 17 2017 11:36pm
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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
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