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Plex Server
Looking to build a plex server since my collection is pretty large at home and upload bandwidth is not the greatest. I am looking to build a large Dedicated server for the whole collection or get a few VMS. There is no direct budget number for this looking for what is out there
Dedicated:
CPU: 8 cores, 16 threads
Memory: 64-256gb
Disk: +10TB usable after RAID (1, 5, 6 or 10)
Bandwdith: +10TB
VM:
CPU 2-4 cores
RAM: 4-8GB
Disk: +2TB
Hypervisor: Windows supported
BW: +2TB
Edit:
Some extra details: Location is not a major issue. I am located in LAX area so want it to be responsive since i will still be using largely from work and home. Most trips I take are on west part of USA. I do go over seas from time to time. B
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Out of curiosity, why do you require Windows for Plex? It runs fine on Linux, I've ran mine on CentOS 7 for a while now. With transcoding (if needed) that and Windows is just going to be a crapper.
I agree with you on this front most of the backup tools I use for full backup like black blaze there consumer version is of windows and osx
Jeez, if you're backing up 2TB+ of media remotely I feel your pain then.
Edit: The only company I can suggest is OVH with their storage servers, nobody else comes close for the capacity. $89 USD for 3x 4TB HDD (Atom 8c/8t 2.4GHz) or their $155 USD 5x6TB SAS server.
I used to have 8TB in Hubic.. Then the billing went tits up and I lost it all.
I tried Hubic but I ended up just using a cheap dedi because of the distance.. Wish they had it in Montreal.
I personally useone of Online.net's storage servers which provides plenty of IO (Avg 50 plays per day.)
As your in the oosah, I would suggest OVH in Canada but that will be costly for a storage and stream machine.
So i thought about this but i know i am going to need to do some transcoding for some of my more mobile devices. And not sure how that cpu will handle the transcoding
Online.net storage range is much better, but only in france.
I think OVH or Kimusfi is better.
10TB of movies and series.. That's a lot damn. Why don't you just remove some that you already watched/is not being watched at all..
Its a collection, you don't just delete them when done
Use Amazon cloud drive? Works great with acd_cli.
Only need small drives for initial download, and cpu for possible transcode.
Get a WD external drive. It can do that for you automatically. All at once.
Yeh, I heard that there is a way to unlock this feature in ANY WD DRIVE!
Founder a provider that i was able to get
What provider is that?
Look around on Nocix https://www.nocix.net/dedicated/