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4 bays? What? I have 32 TB in mine (24 after RAID) and it's plenty. Some have nearly 50 TB in theirs.
Do you mean RAM?
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Ram too low might as well and use a raspberry pi
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USB drive plugged into my router. Why would that matter when it comes to transcoding?
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There are many reasons why transcoding occurs. Your upload bandwidth, the codec compatibility of the playback device, and quality setting of the playback device.
I have over 20 people on my Plex,...
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Thread created 01-12-2021 by sr71
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What is your file size for your 4k videoes?
As for increasing disk size in the future can be very expensive if you use raid. You have to replace the entire array for higher disk capacity. You...
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Me thinks you ate too much lead paint as a kid:lmao:
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Jellyfin sounds cool, can’t believe I’d never heard of it. Thanks for the heads-up. Sounds like it could be a real contender for Plex once client-side support improves.
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i have photo and video storage that i use for video and photo editing and also backing up data. i have 2 4tb drives and one 1tb ssd.
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Available bandwidth can affect whether Plex will transcode or not, I’m pretty sure that includes upload speed from the server.
If you have a video with a 10 mbps bitrate, but are unfortunate...
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I don't use RAID but use 2 NAS with the secondary sync to the master on essential folders. I think this is far more reliable and lower long term cost than RIAD. Unlike RIAD all drives are r/w all the...
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Thread created 01-12-2021 by sr71
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I've had it for a couple of years and still have LOADS of space. Literally HUNDREDS of 4K and HD movies on it -- pushing 800 total -- in addition to using it as a Plex DVR and serving thousands of...
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How about Raid performance? Anyone tested with 4 drives over the USB-C port what kind of R/W speeds are? I have the TR-004 expansion enclosure (DAS), directly attached to a computer, and cannot get...
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QNAP TS-431K 4-bay personal cloud NAS
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You are correct, you need a player which a lot of them can support all the standard formats. Two you need to be on the same network. Primarily most people only transcode if they are trying to view...
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I'm using a Lenovo ThinkCentre M90n IoT Desktop, i3-8145U, UHD Graphics, 4GB DDR4, 128GB SSD I just bought when they were on sale. Jellyfin tells me if the file is direct play or transcoding in the...
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Your system is powerful enough to transcode a 1080p stream and if it supports plex hardware transcoding option you wont even notice if its doing it, cause it will spike hardware resources for a few...
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Depends on what you want to do. They make a USB sata dock where you plug the drives in like a cartridge. Thats probably the simplest . see link below...
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Streaming 4k in general in the USA is a bad idea since most people are on a capped ISP data plan. You got about 180 hours of total streaming with 4k before you cap out your data plan if your still on...
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Thread created 01-12-2021 by sr71
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What drives do you guys buy for this raid storage system if you wanted to do locally?
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The 4K videos range from 10GB to nearly 50GB.
And to clarify, if 8TB drives like I bought years ago isn't sufficient, START with 12/14/16 (which are more the norm than 8TB drives nowadays anyway)....
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Newegg has QNAP TS-431K-US 4-Bay Personal Cloud NAS on sale for $278 - $55.60 w/ promo code 28UPTNP334 = $222.40. Shipping is free.
Thanks to community member sr71 for finding this deal.
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Not sure that is correct. I recently shared my library with someone outside my home, and it direct plays to their fire tv and their phone.
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Where/what is all your media stored on?
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https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=TS-431P3-4G About 359 - 466 right now but have to look for sales.
This one is upgrade to 8gb and plenty to run plex.
https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/ts-431p3
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Thread created 01-12-2021 by sr71
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It wont transcode, but it should direct play anything 1080p you got just fine.
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Do you have a nighthawk X10 or another router that runs as a Plex media server? It matters cause whatever hardware the server is running on, does the transcoding. A lot of people run their server...
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For something cheap mainly to be used with a Plex server running on a Shield TV, this would work fine right?
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So a google chromecast can do the same thing?
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how much is a pi setup that supports 4 hdds and has more ram, plus the cost of your time to custom build and deal with it?
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It is never a good idea to mix size capacity in these type of raid sysyem. SHR is raid using a feature in standard raid systems but not recommended by any means for use.
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Thread created 01-12-2021 by sr71
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At max your movies are pushing 35tb in a four drive bays. How about tv shows, music, photo, etc. Those take up spaces too.
So you buy an expensive external expension bays to solve your bay...
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A lot of people do not understand how much space media takes. Plex servers can easily get over 100tb. There are plex servers with over 1pb.
Posters that disagree with me have no or very little...
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I wonder how much longer transcoding will be necessary. My fire tvs play everything direct. And my phones play probably >80% directly with no transcoding needed.
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Transcode is not based on upload speed. It happens if the client doesn't have direct play working or if the client cannot support the format. If upload speed is super low, you will see buffering.
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I had an older version of this TS-431P-US. A disk crashed one day and it never recovered the RAID. Glad I had a backup on a portable drive. It would reboot and never get to the management screen. Was...
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Ok. Thank you for your guidance. Will keep that in mind next time.
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700+ movies x 50gb per movie = 35,000gb or 35tb.
You will be running into bandwidth problems with external drives when accessing 4k videos on different drived at the same time.
Your 4 bay nas...
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4 bays is too limiting for plex.
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I def notice when it is transcoding. Direct play uses like 1-3% of the cpu & GPU. I can keep adding direct play streams and it is mostly unnoticeable. When something is transcoding CPU goes up to...
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what would you guys recommend for putting 3 drives into so i can use them as externals for my laptop?
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