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Bob Morales posted:Speaking of...do we have a homelab thread? I'm going to try to get a bunch of stuff we've taken out of production at work, and take it home to play with for a short time before I get bored with it and sell it.
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HalloKitty posted:All I read is "my time isn't worth much" But it wouldn't be much of my time anyway. Downloading/organizing movies and tv shows is automated. Also, I'd have to download it from Backblaze or Amazon or wherever anyway.
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Yeah, most homelab stuff ends up here eventually, anyhow. So ask away!
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There is a real possibility I'll be able to dump Comcast and get rid of my data cap this fall. Fingers crossed.
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What tool would you all recommend (in Windows 10) to do a health check on hard drives? Making sure there are no bad blocks and all that good stuff? These are freshly formatted drives that I just got from Shamino's Storage Bonanza, but feel it would be prudent to scan/fix any errors now.
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WD lifeguard - for WD junk https://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?DL Seagate - seatools will work with anything else: https://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/ Those are the most popular and best i have seen personally.
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Moey posted:There is a real possibility I'll be able to dump Comcast and get rid of my data cap this fall. I did this and haven’t looked back. My only other alternative in the area gives me 50/50 or 100/100, no dat cap. It was an easy choice.
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Axe-man posted:WD lifeguard - for WD junk Thank you!
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:I did this and haven’t looked back. My only other alternative in the area gives me 50/50 or 100/100, no dat cap. It was an easy choice.
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DrDork posted:Or have to locate it anywhere you'll have to listen to it's fans. https://youtu.be/z-KoR7hOOng
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Thermopyle posted:Downloading/organizing movies and tv shows is automated. Huh, fair enough
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Yeah, they're not the loudest things in the datacenter, but I still wouldn't want one within 10' of me for any extended period of time. Especially not when you consider that you can affordably get the processing power and storage capacity in a reasonably sized tower at much lower noise. Of course if it's a free server from work, can't beat the price.
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DrDork posted:Yeah, they're not the loudest things in the datacenter, but I still wouldn't want one within 10' of me for any extended period of time. Especially not when you consider that you can affordably get the processing power and storage capacity in a reasonably sized tower at much lower noise. Of course if it's a free server from work, can't beat the price. It was just an example - i agree that if you run rack gear at your house you're nutso
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HalloKitty posted:Huh, fair enough  https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3409898
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To be fair, flexget can automated downloading of ANY kind of stuff, as long as you can get some sort of data-feed pointing to the links you want the stuff to be downloaded from, be it RSS feeds with torrents for FreeBSD isos or what have you.
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 Yes, I shouldn't let the pool get this full, the resilver rate was still terrible at 25% capacity when I tested it transitioning from my 4TB disk based array. code:
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I think 86% is fine, IIRC there's some "slop" space saved internally by pools to not allow things to grind to a halt so completely anymore when they're close to full.
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df -h reports the wrong values, as all forks of OpenZFS default to using lz4 by default. Also, I've had pools get to 100% capacity with the kernel telling me "No, seriously, the disks are full, mate" or something to that effect - and when I got rid of the data that wasn't supposed to have written, pool speed shot right back up again.
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I'm constantly in a battle to upgrade my pools capacity fast enough, so I often hit 100% capacity on them. Always goes right back to speedy after clearing space out.
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Amazon's got some WD and Sandisk stuff on their deal of the day. I don't think this is a referral link but there's a whole page of storage stuff so it seems to have a huge URL: https://smile.amazon.com/apb/page/r...N2AD7K0BBKWWH7S The main thing this thread may be interested in: Shuckable Elements 12TB for $175 https://smile.amazon.com/12TB-Elements-Desktop-Drive-WDBWLG0120HBK-NESN/dp/B07X4V2M3B There are also a bunch of sizes of regular internal Red and Red Pro drives on sale. More expensive than shucking but worth a look. There's also a couple of their NAS storage devices. I wouldn't buy them but they're on sale.
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FYI you have to click on the item you want via the deal of the day page to get the full sale. Linking directly doesn't get you the full discount.
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Newegg is hopping on the sale train with the same drive for the same price with promo code EMCDEDE42 https://www.newegg.com/black-wd-ele...-22234406-S4A1B
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Kinda want that 128GB ultra fit for $15 but I would lose it in three minutes
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D. Ebdrup posted:You're in the homelab thread, as far as I'm concerned - not that my opinion matters anymore than anyone elses, of course. Yeah, this largely gets used as the homelab thread. I posted mine here.
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Deal of the Day: 14TB WD Red for $400. Yowza. The shuckable 12TB is tempting though. I know the MyStores are white/red drives, but what's the Elements? Related question: Best PCI USB 3 adapter and USB 3 external enclosure?
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The MyBook I got back as a refurb was the EZAZ drive resilvering in. That's a whitelabel red
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Deal of the Day: 14TB WD Red for $400. Yowza. Elements are reported to be the same, Easystore is just a Best Buy exclusive so they don't have to pricematch.
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Decided to upgrade my storage setup today, and things went pretty smoothly given that I far from an expert on NAS stuff. I was previously just using a single external drive HD connected to my desktop, which was running a plex server. Today I got a DS 1019+ and stuck in two 12 gb western digital drives. With five bays I figure I can expand as needed. The setup was smooth, given that I didn't have much idea of what I was doing. Most everything was automatic. The only real hurdle I ran into was that the initial install of plex from the synology package center didn't transcode my x265 videos correctly. Audio and subtites worked, but the video was messed up. I downloaded the newest plex spk and gave it to the package manager for a manual install. After that things played fine. With hardware encoding checked, transcoding a 1080p seems to take about 40% of the CPU on the NAS. Playback is smooth, but seeking is noticably slower than when the plex server was running on my much more powerful desktop. I am pretty happy overall though. The size of the box is nice and it is surprisingly quiet, even when the drives are in use.
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Filthy Monkey posted:Decided to upgrade my storage setup today, and things went pretty smoothly given that I far from an expert on NAS stuff. I was previously just using a single external drive HD connected to my desktop, which was running a plex server. Today I got a DS 1019+ and stuck in two 12 gb western digital drives. With five bays I figure I can expand as needed. The setup was smooth, given that I didn't have much idea of what I was doing. Most everything was automatic. one problem with x265 and subtitles is this: even if your playback device can direct play x265 content, once you use subtitles it is forced to transcode to x264. if you turn subtitles off on your x265 playback, it will switch back to direct play.
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I got myself a 15-disk EMC KTN-STL3 shelf and a SFF-8088 cable, so now I just need a LSI HBA with 8 external ports and 15 disks.  I think I'll be best off if I do 3x 5 6TB disks in raidz2?
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derk posted:one problem with x265 and subtitles is this:
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So after upgrading my NAS from my old box to my new R720, my 4TB external USB backup failed. Like right after the final Rsync onto the new Array. So I've been 3 months or so without redundancy, but finally scratched that itch tonight with a new 8TB USB disk, which matches the array its backing up. Cmon rsync, do your stuff.
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Filthy Monkey posted:Yeah, so far plex's poor subtitle support has been my main complaint about the program. Given that I have a large amount of anime, that does present a problem. I was thinking of trying emby out as an alternative, though I don't know much about it. I see that it also has a roku channel and synology NAS support. I honestly don't know. I don't program anything more complex than Arduino stuff.
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CopperHound posted:How hard can it be to implement client side subtitle support?
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CopperHound posted:How hard can it be to implement client side subtitle support? It can probably be quite a challenge if you want full featured support for all the multitudes of subtitle formats. I vaguely remember seeing a short scene in some anime, where they were showing a book with japanese text. The book was overlayed by english subtitles that were aligned to the book and conformed to it. And since they were soft subs you could turn them off. Example from Aegisub.
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D. Ebdrup posted:How old is VLC? Take however many decades that is, and add as many years as it'll take until they fix their lovely implementation. Plex has paid employees, though. Probably just need a critical mass of customer requests.
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Emby handles text based srt subtitles well, either embedded or as separate files. Other formats require it to transcode and burn in the subtitles. This typically (and very broadly speaking) means it handles anime fine but will often transcodes bluray rips if you enable subtitles. It also supports a small handful of subtitle sites that it can search and grab external srt subs from.
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D. Ebdrup posted:How old is VLC? Take however many decades that is, and add as many years as it'll take until they fix their lovely implementation. I think it was initially released in 2000? I remember first downloading it in spring 2001 back when the orange cone icon still meant "under construction"
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And remember computers only recently started being able to display things is multiple languages without overloading the same bits in the character byte reliably. Aka when we all switched over to UTF-8/UTF-16. Now on client side for desktop computers it's "easy", but "most" of what people want is embedded clients - their TV's and phones and whatever. From there the matrix of processing power to supported features in hardware to how much they even like supporting plex. Only in the past few years has Plex started shipping on TVs out of the box. They might not give them access to the features that other apps have, such as text overlay (closed captioning), it might not support multiple languages (is it _only_ latin-1 if you have it set to "English" in the TV's menus?) If no compositing is offered the plex client could just be sunk. That is all pure text format subtitles. Blu-Ray's use "PGS" often, which are actual pictures of the subtitles which are composed onto the rendered video in real time. (Think a png file with an alpha channel which let's the video play "behind" it.)
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