• WilshireOP
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    Memory was really overpriced at that time, so only 16GB but I barely use half of that.

    The HHD’S are split into a RAID5 TV folder, and RAID1 movie folder because I occasionally have 5+ people watching the same movie on Plex. These are old 8TB SMR drives.

    I switched from a 2U 12 bay server running Ubuntu, to this setup running Windows because it’s a lot easier for me.

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      So you have RAID 1 mirror for your movies, because lots of people watch the same movie? I don’t understand the logic in that, because after my understanding RAID 1 doss not increase performance, but RAID 5 does.

      But really nice setup!

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        1 year ago

        RAID1 has twice the read speed as a single HHD.

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      Yea that RAID 1 setup seems weird to me as well. Have you looked into UnRaid? The added cache pool might be hery helpful in this instance. I see a huge peek when like the new episode of (insert popular show here) every one trying to watch it. UnRaid will move a copy to the Cache Pool automatically and in my server the cache pool is 2x RAID 0 1TB NVME drives. Its not unusual to see 8-10 users watching the same thing on my server and mone of them even hit the big spinning 10TB drives.

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        I heard it has a lot of advantages, I just struggled for so long with Linux and I had no idea how well QuickSync works for unRAID. When my Ubuntu server hit the fan I just went back to the familiar.