@marcinozga said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

@Grey said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

@marcinozga said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

@Pete-S said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

@marcinozga said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

It really depends how much storage and CPU you need. If you need lots of storage, nothing beats unlimited, and I think only G Suite Business is viable option. I know lots of people host Plex with Hertzner, Vultr is probably attractive option too.

I had a look and it looks like you need 5 minimum users on G Suit Business to get unlimited TBs. If it's $12 per month then that becomes $60 per month. Under a five year period that's $3600.

Not saying it's the same thing but for the exact same money you can buy 9 x 16TB enterprise drives with 5 year warranty. That's about 100 TB of actual storage.

Using Drive makes sense in your case but if someone only needs say 10-15 TB, I'm not sure it does. And 10 TB may not sound like a lot but if we are talking about H.264 video it's more than 3000 movies/5000 episodes. Even if you binge watch 5 hours a day, every day, it will take about 3 years to get through it.

Google doesn't enforce that limit, and one of their engineers confirmed that, I just can't find the source. I'm paying $12/mo for 1 user and I'm using close to 100TB. My 5 year cost is $720, good luck finding drives for that price.

Average 1080p movie is about 25GB.

Ehhhh... No. Average 1080p is about 3gb. It really depends on the bitrate used when you encode the ripped data. I have 2 1080p movies and one is 18564 kbps bitrate while the other is 2634 kbps. The second one is 2:40 long and just under 3gb, but the other one is 1:30 and just shy of 16gb. You really have to pay attention to more than just the resolution. Audio can change things a lot, too.

That's on the low end, usually ripped from Netfilx, iTunes or some other web source. And most likely with AC3 audio. If you want good quality rip, 25GB is actually conservative estimate, I have some files over 65GB.

Absolutely. It's rare to see a difference unless you're comparing side by side.

Finished watching all of Grimm last night. That was a really good series.
I might start in on Farscape. I watched it when it was new and TiVo was new, too. It will be nice to watch without having to fast forward or wait for the next episode to release.

@dafyre said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

Brand new Plex server up and running on My Hetzner host. It's connected directly to Wasabi at the moment. The browsing is a little slower, and video start up is a little slower (we're talking seconds, not minutes).

All local storage here, but using a plex server and data server as guests on he same VM. My SMB experience was notably slower than NFS.

@marcinozga said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

@Pete-S said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

@marcinozga said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

It really depends how much storage and CPU you need. If you need lots of storage, nothing beats unlimited, and I think only G Suite Business is viable option. I know lots of people host Plex with Hertzner, Vultr is probably attractive option too.

I had a look and it looks like you need 5 minimum users on G Suit Business to get unlimited TBs. If it's $12 per month then that becomes $60 per month. Under a five year period that's $3600.

Not saying it's the same thing but for the exact same money you can buy 9 x 16TB enterprise drives with 5 year warranty. That's about 100 TB of actual storage.

Using Drive makes sense in your case but if someone only needs say 10-15 TB, I'm not sure it does. And 10 TB may not sound like a lot but if we are talking about H.264 video it's more than 3000 movies/5000 episodes. Even if you binge watch 5 hours a day, every day, it will take about 3 years to get through it.

Google doesn't enforce that limit, and one of their engineers confirmed that, I just can't find the source. I'm paying $12/mo for 1 user and I'm using close to 100TB. My 5 year cost is $720, good luck finding drives for that price.

Average 1080p movie is about 25GB.

Ehhhh... No. Average 1080p is about 3gb. It really depends on the bitrate used when you encode the ripped data. I have 2 1080p movies and one is 18564 kbps bitrate while the other is 2634 kbps. The second one is 2:40 long and just under 3gb, but the other one is 1:30 and just shy of 16gb. You really have to pay attention to more than just the resolution. Audio can change things a lot, too.

@jmoore said in Redoing Home Network:

@Dashrender said in Redoing Home Network:

@jmoore said in Redoing Home Network:

@Dashrender said in Redoing Home Network:

Unifi APs are the only Ubiquiti option, so not any choices to really make there.

Unifi has newer firewalls in that line that have a new OS, haven't seen it yet to know if it's better than what's on the USG (which mostly just sucks).

The USG should be able to handle 1 Gb as long as you aren't doing any filtering/QOSing, if yes, then you'll need more processing power.

Part of the issue is that I cant tell whats newer or older on their product page. I looked at specs and picked best cpu/memory option that has poe and thats what looks like the best. I could be way off. Never ordered from them before.

yeah, I heard ya, but in general that part doesn't really matter, as you've already done, it's more about getting the cpu needed for your end goal.

Well Im sure i dont need all that but I like toys to play with and I look at it as future proofing lol.
Planning on:
Edgerouter 6p
Edgeswitch 8
Unifi Ap Pro

Does that seem like a solid combo? any reason I shouldn't?

Are you sure that the AP isn't EOL? https://community.ui.com/questions/Announcement-EOL-for-some-UniFi-AP-models/65487283-ce9d-49f4-85b9-b6aa54659ef7

You're going to want a ubuntu server to control and program the single AP (a single point of failure, btw) which is a waste. You're ordering one AP with the rest of the network unmatched. Like buying 1 monster wheel and three regular tires for your Honda Accord. Either get an AP that matches the rest of the system, or get the rest of the Ubiquiti equipment. It's designed to work together. You're literally building a broken network. You'll need this tool for that section of equipment and another tool for another section, and you'll have to use an inline PoE because you opted for complex networking and you'll be using more electricity per year.

The Ubiquiti USG can handle 1gig connections without a problem. I have mine going to a 100mbit connection, but it can scale up if I pay my ISP. The integration was not effortless due to some quirks from the ISP. Rock solid now, though, and I get the benefit on the dashboard and other software defined options. It is also worth noting that the older AP, an AP-LR, requires a 24v PoE, and this is defined in my switch by the dashboard software.

Rackspace is now a traded company, and their first day did not go well.

https://finance.yahoo.com/m/45a83f99-a5e3-3e35-85c8-83d7949693b9/rackspace-ipo-flops-as.html

@marcinozga said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

Plex needs lots of CPU power if your clients require transcoding. I have a 4 core E3 Xeon, 1231 I think, running Fedora on bare metal, but Plex and others run in docker containers. All my media is sitting in Google Drive, I have that mounted with https://github.com/plexdrive/plexdrive , some use rclone too. Google Drive for business cost me $12 a month and comes with unlimited storage, I think I'm pushing close to 100TB now. I've had way too many drive failures, I even had LSI SAS controller flipping on me, and after spending close to $1500 on storage alone, I said screw that. There's even Plexdrive docker image to keep your base system kosher, I think it comes with option of UnionFS and MergerFS, but that's more advanced topic.

See https://cloudbox.works/ for some ideas, I built by server in similar way. Cloudbox is a set of Ansible roles to setup completely automated media server. Mine is a bit different, I use Traefik as reverse proxy, with added OAuth2 authentication layer.

Has anyone priced out storage and/or services through Vultr?

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Twitter users urged to update over Android security flaw

Millions of Twitter users will be asked to update their Android app after the company found a security flaw.
Twitter said the vulnerability could let other malicious apps access private information such as direct messages. It said most users were already protected by an Android security update, but 4% were still vulnerable. Twitter said anyone still affected by this flaw would get an in-app notification "to let them know if they need to do anything". "We don't have evidence that this vulnerability was exploited by attackers," it added. But it acknowledged "we can't be completely sure" and was taking the highly unusual steps "to keep the small group of potentially vulnerable people safe".

Or just don't use the twitter app.

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

BBC News - Mexico obesity: Oaxaca bans sale of junk food to children
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-53678747

How are they defining junk food?

@brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

@Pete-S I turned off the R410s and 510 last year. I'm currently running a newer "entry-level" server as my VM host. It has a low-end Xeon and maxes out at 32G of RAM. I have been shopping around for a while for a more robust host but can't decide on anything.

I don't believe I will need hardware transcoding for Plex.

You will need some transcoding, no matter what, so plan for it, and if you want to share your libraries, you'll need more cpu/gcpu.

@wirestyle22 said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

@brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

@DustinB3403 My wife ripped all the DVD and Blu-Ray discs. It is pretty much her "project". I just maintain it. I believe we have about 460 movies or so. I ripped all my music to flac files and have it on there as well. Works great for my needs.

Even if you buy the media the act of breaking the DRM is illegal, so there doesn't seem to be any legitimate way to do it outside of non-DRM content.. Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, Crunchyroll, etc are really not a replacement for Plex. I deleted my Plex server when we moved into the house and moved over to streaming services. It feels very limiting. I also hate having to search for content in multiple applications. If someone developed a website that shows you a single pane for all of your streaming services I bet a lot of people would use it.

Roku's search feature allows you to sub to services and search across them to find what you want and go straight there.

@brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

@Grey I have 2 - R410s and 1 - R510 but they are getting a little dated and I'm wanting something newer and more efficient. They pump out a lot of heat too. Just can't decide on what I want to replace them with.

I jumped from a 2950 to the r710. Big jump. @xByteSean or one of his buddies helped me out.

I only have 850 movies, but the various TV series takes up a lot of space.

@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

On an "into"meeting for SOC 3 audit. Guess teh higher ups want us to be "compliant". Guess I have some reading to do tonight.

Do not comply. You are not a number!

My plex is a Dell R710 with OBR10. I expanded it a while ago so I now have about 12tb total storage just to plex. Other storage is for personal files, etc. on smb in AD. The one major thing I did with the upgrade was to convert from SMB on plex to NFS and it was a 220% increase in speed, and part of that was using a new CentOS host to handle the NAS work. It was a fun project and I did the whole thing in-flight with plex. No interruptions and I learned a lot about CentOS which was part of the reason I chose it. The r710 is super required since the 4k and other high quality videos can be murder to transcode to my friends and family on their dsl lines, or @scottalanmiller's dial-up.

@scottalanmiller said in Testing Zulip:

@Grey said in Testing Zulip:

maybe check out https://www.igniterealtime.org/?

We used to use that, it's the best XMPP out there. Maybe it would be better for our use case, but from what I remember, it lacks the group chats, or did when we left it.

Last time I used it, group chat was included. The spark client was a little wonky, but good once you figured out the various functions. Chat via cell clients worked, too, though they used a different client with the firewall doing port forwards. Pretty sweet once it's set up.

A little something for v7 VCenter to use the semi-new Lifecycle Manager.

###### Variables
# Change this to your VSphere server name:
$viserver = "server"
# Change os search base, ex: windows, linux, etc.
$os = "windows"
# Use your favorite format or leave as is:
$date=get-date -format g
###### End Variables


try {$vmlist = Get-VM |where {$_.guestid -like "*$($os)*" -and $_.Name -notlike "*replica*"}
}

catch [VMware.VimAutomation.Sdk.Types.V1.ErrorHandling.VimException.ViServerConnectionException]{
    write-host -ForegroundColor red "Error: No VIServer connection present. Please wait..."
    Connect-VIServer -Server $viserver -verbose:$false -WarningAction 0
    $vmlist = Get-VM |where {$_.guestid -like "*$($os)*" -and $_.Name -notlike "*replica*"}
    }

###### Tools status only
$vmout=$vmlist|select Name,
    @{N="Tools Status";E={
        if($_.Guest.Extensiondata.GuestState -eq "notRunning"){
            "Not running"}
        else{
            $_.Guest.Extensiondata.ToolsVersionStatus.Replace("guestToolsNeedUpgrade","Out of date").Replace("guestToolsNotInstalled","Not installed").Replace("guestToolsCurrent","OK").Replace("guestToolsUnmanaged","Unmanaged")
        }
    }}
    
###### Get the most up-to-date info by testing the environment
$vmlist |Test-Compliance -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

###### Display in desired format
write-Host -ForegroundColor Cyan "View in Terminal, Gridview, Excel, Notepad, or quick tools status only?"
do {$vmview = (read-host "T/g/e/n/q").ToLower()} while ($vmview -notin @('t','g','e','n',"$($null)","q"))
If ($vmview -eq '') {$vmview = 't'}

If ($vmview -eq 't') {$vmlist |get-compliance |sort status
}

If ($vmview -eq 'g') {$vmlist |get-compliance |out-gridview -Title "VM Compliance Status $($date)"
}

If ($vmview -eq 'e') {$vmlist |get-compliance |export-csv $env:TEMP\vmtools.csv -Force -NoTypeInformation
& "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16\EXCEL.EXE" $env:TEMP\vmtools.csv
}

If ($vmview -eq 'n') {$vmlist |get-compliance |export-csv $env:TEMP\vmtools.csv -Force -NoTypeInformation
& notepad $env:TEMP\vmtools.csv
}

If ($vmview -eq 'q') {$vmout |sort "Tools Status",Name
}

maybe check out https://www.igniterealtime.org/?

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

Watching my daughter play a video game.

Try Vecter. It's free on Steam.

I've been watching Grimm. My buddy has it in his plex and it seemed like a well-rated show with a bunch of episodes to keep me entertained. It has. I also finished Avatar: the Last Airbender and Korra last month. I need to finish Westworld since I stopped after S1.