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New to Usenet. At least since 1994 or so when I posted about paintball. So is the provider list in the OP still accurate? Any of them better than others? I also have the Xfinity 1TB cap and my idiot kids chew a ton of it up with stupid-rear end Netflix TV shows, so I won't be chugging through 5TB/month or anything. e: Neat, I found an unlimited "promo" on newshosting for $100 annually, or $8.33/month: https://controlpanel.newshosting.com/signup/index.php?package=92 I assume this is a good deal, considering their standard 50GB tier is $10/month? Henrik Zetterberg fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Nov 7, 2019 |
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sedative posted:You can get ThunderNews for $3.50 a month. They resell Newshosting https://www.thundernews.com/billinginfo.php?pricepointid=2019001 Goddamn, that’s a good deal! I was about to buy the yearly if I didn’t see any replies, so thanks for that. I’ll do a month then see if they have anything cheaper for Black Friday.
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Nov 7, 2019 23:12
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Got everything set up via SABnzbd. Works great, but I rip through downloads and the post-processing takes a damned eternity on a local platter HDD. I have a massive backlog of poo poo it needs to process and each item seems to take a few hours each for 2-4GB files. Looking at task manager, it seems my HDD is being maxed out and hardly anything on my Ivy Bridge CPU. I assume grabbing an SSD would speed things up on the post-processing end?
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Nov 11, 2019 09:43
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Rexxed posted:Yeah, a SSD would be fast, although that seems unusually long, even for a hard disk. I have my usenet stuff setup on a VM and the unpacking is done on the VM (which is using a 2TB HD for its datastore) and then it moves it to my NAS afterwards. That VM is limited to 2GB of ram and 2 cores maximum on an AMD FX-8300 so it's pretty anemic. I have large unpacks take a few minutes but never hours. It may be some weird config issue but definitely check your HD health with crystal disk info and check how much it's reading and writing when its busy. If you're in windows you can use the resource monitor in windows 10 to check what processes are using a lot of the disk. Yeah I do the processing on this local disk, then have it copy to my NAS as well. The platter disk it’s using was one I replaced from my NAS. It had started to throw a few SMART errors, but nothing insane. It very well could be (and probably is) bad disk health, so replacing it would be good anyway. I don’t store anything important on it, so I haven’t been too speedy at replacing it. Just ordered a 1TB Samsung 860 Evo. I usually use Intel for my SSDs, but this one seemed to perform just fine from what I’ve read, and the recommendations in SH/SC.
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Nov 11, 2019 10:07
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Lambert posted:Was the drive a shingled drive? Those tend to get extremely slow. You know, I never even thought about the lifespan with all the writes. Unfortunately, my PC is about 8 years old, so no NVMe slot there. 2.5s only. Looks like the Adata one is 20-30 cheaper. Maybe I’ll grab that one and use the Samsung for my OS drive since my current one is only 128gb and I’m constantly having to clear poo poo off it. Thanks for the recommendation!
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Nov 11, 2019 17:54
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wolrah posted:NVMe is just a protocol for accessing flash storage (or potentially other similar media) over a PCI Express bus. While most consumer-market NVMe drives are in M.2 card format they can also be found in 2.5" and rarely 3.5" sizes using U.2 or SATA Express connectors, as well as just directly in a full PCIe card format. Theoretically one could be made for the old MiniPCIe format that predated M.2 but due lack of demand and the 1x lane limit I doubt it'll ever happen. Yeah sorry I meant no M2 slot. This is a good post. Thanks for the info!
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Nov 11, 2019 23:43
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Ok yeah, the new SSD is post-processing shows almost instantly (with unpack while downloading is enabled). I checked the SMART on my old platter HDD and it did indeed have re-allocated sectors and whatnot, so disk health was definitely the issue.
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Nov 13, 2019 07:27
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How much of an advantage is it to have multiple indexers? I have one and haven’t had many issues beyond Sonarr saying certain shows are blacklisted.
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Nov 15, 2019 19:10
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Getting a lot of "this release is blacklisted" on NZBgeek. Does this mean that the release no longer exists on the servers due to DMCA or something?
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Nov 19, 2019 20:00
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They have that deal every BF and every time I ponder buying it, but end up not. The only thing I'd end up using it for would be the offline sync for airplanes, which I fly once a year, so not worth it for me.
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Nov 21, 2019 17:57
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Thunder News is putting their deals up at 7am EST tomorrow.
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Nov 26, 2019 01:03
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ThunderNews deals: https://www.thundernews.com/signup_bf_2019.php $25/year lifetime deal quote:4120+ Days Binary Retention There's also $10/1.5TB and $18/3TB blocks.
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Nov 26, 2019 18:34
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sedative posted:These guys are known to boot customers who download a few TB a month on unlimited plans. Interesting. I don't really foresee myself downloading multi TB/month, so it shouldn't be an issue, but I can't get their Upgrade Plan page to work when I log into my existing account. It's just a blank page 
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Nov 26, 2019 20:16
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Just checked my email and when I signed up with them last month, they sent my info just about instantly. Which included the account password in plain text  . So yeah, when you get it, definitely change your pass right away.
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Nov 26, 2019 20:55
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I can't upgrade my monthly Thunder account to that unlimited deal. It's just giving me a blank page when I'm logged in and try to do the upgrade plan thing. I just signed up for the deal like I was a new customer, and everything went through and now I'm waiting on my (second) account info. The Gunslinger posted:Yeah I signed up with Thundernews too and its been over 4 hours without any login info sent. I checked spam and submitted a ticket but so far not the greatest first impression haha. I'll report back if/when I get my info email, but nothing yet after 5 mins.
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Nov 26, 2019 21:43
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Re: Thunder News I had problems switching from their monthly plan to the BF yearly play, so I submitted a help ticket. Looks like they replied to it 15 mins later and changed my plan for me. So if you haven’t received a confirmation email from them, may want to try to email them or send in a help ticket.
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Nov 27, 2019 06:13
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Haha I’m happy to hit 6MB/s on my 50 line.
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Nov 27, 2019 16:00
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Man I’ve been sticking to WD reds in my NAS, but wow is that WD Easystore cheap in comparison.
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Nov 27, 2019 19:08
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EL BROMANCE posted:The Easystores used to be Reds back in the day, now they're the white labels. My 2x 8TBs are Red, my 2x 10TBs are White. Hoping they all have good longetivity! I'm thinking of every year buying a new drive, moving the data off the oldest drive and keep cycling them like that. That’s exactly what I do. My NAS runs unraid, so I have a bunch of random-sized drives. When I get a new one, I just replace the smallest drive. If I get a drive larger than any currently in it, I get a pair since the largest has to be the parity drive.
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Nov 27, 2019 19:54
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astral posted:And right now: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-easystore-12tb-external-usb-3-0-hard-drive-black/6364259.p?skuId=6364259 I assume this is just a platter HD inside that I just tear out?
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Nov 27, 2019 22:01
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e: nm
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Nov 27, 2019 22:34
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What are the good free indexers? Looking to supplement to my nzbgeek.
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Nov 28, 2019 02:43
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Submit a support ticket. They have a category for not receiving info. My 2 tickets have been responded to and resolved within 30 mins each time.
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Nov 29, 2019 01:06
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Weembles posted:What am I doing wrong here? I've had that happen a few times. Sometimes Windows locks files open while it indexes it or some poo poo. Is your download/processing folder set to be indexed? I suggest turning that off if it's on. Also there was some setting (can't remember, I'm at work now) in SAB about renaming folders. Turn that off, as it also causes Windows to lock the files or something. Once I did that, it was fine since Sonarr is the one to do the folder renaming.
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Dec 6, 2019 18:02
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And from the NAS thread, EasyStores 14TB externals are $199: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-easystore-14tb-external-usb-3-0-hard-drive-black/6390390.p?skuId=6390390
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I thought that’s what this thread was about? I used to talk on the paintball groups all the time. Back in the 90s.
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Dec 25, 2019 03:15
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Thermopyle posted:Is there a way to force Radarr to search for multiple movies right now? I changed the profile on a bunch of movies, but it's a huge pain in the rear end to go to each movie and click search. If you go into Wanted, there's a button that says "Search for All" or something. Assuming you have the movie in your list already, that is.
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Dec 26, 2019 21:51
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Dongattack posted:How come the process for buying a membership to dog is to "buy a shirt"? Some kinda super big brain move to not bring the CIA down on them? I hate it so much lol, i just want to press button. Plus they tack a $10 processing fee on top, yeesh. If you use the voucher noship you don’t have to buy a shirt and saves you like $10 or something.
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Dec 30, 2019 03:05
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Oldstench posted:Now I can hopefully figure out how to set these quality profiles so I don't end up with 50GB+ files. It's so annoying getting a 55GB 1080p file. I just went through and adjusted my profiles as well.
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savesthedayrocks posted:Is it just changing the range for the quality in settings? I tried the H264/5 quality filter, this is next on my list. Yeah, it's just a slider for what you want the max to be for 90/140-minute movies in radarr.
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If I update Sonarr from 2 to 3, does it preserve all my settings or do I have to set everything up again?
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Jan 26, 2020 00:43
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I had that happen to me when my HDD was throwing smart errors. It would take an absolute eternity to unpack. Swapping it out for a new SSD fixed it.
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I thought having Radarr automatically upgrade my 1080p stuff to 4K was rad as hell until I realized that my 10ish yo Ivy Bridge Plex server PC couldn’t keep up with transcoding them from 4K -> 1080p for my smaller tv without tons of buffering. gently caress.
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Matt Zerella posted:I have to say, SAB looks a lot nicer than NZBGET. Tempted to switch. It’s certainly pretty nice, the settings pages can be a bit intimidating setting up for the first time. I set it up never having done anything with NZBs before, but I was able to get it running after an hour or 2.
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What's the point of Remuxes? I just can't seem to understand why I'd want a 45GB rip of a 1080p movie, as previous poster suggested. 10GB BluRay rips seems to be just fine? Why are they so massive? Is it just higher quality than BR somehow?
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Incessant Excess posted:I have a decent amount of storage space available and a pretty good TV, so I always go for the highest available quality even if the difference isn't very big. Thermopyle posted:It's a direct rip of the BR without recompression. It's exact same quality as the BR. Ah, thanks. Yeah I've got a 75" 4K TV and a 55" 1080P, but since my old-rear end Plex PC chokes on 4K content, I try to stick with 1080P rips. I did sign up for a month of Plex Pass to see if the hardware transcoding helps at all (Ivy Bridge), but haven't had a chance to check it out yet. I may have to just bite the bullet and upgrade my Plex server PC. Or upgrade the guts of my unraid machine and learn all the docker crap.
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derk posted:even tho 4K titles are big, direct playing should do fine on your tv. there is no transcoding going on during a direct play. is your tv hard wired or wireless? Well, it chokes transcoding 4K content down to 1080P for the smaller TV. Both TVs are running Apple TV / Plex on wireless, both have full signals.
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Feb 21, 2020 22:27
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derk posted:yea, transcoding 4k files is going to choke just about anything. don't offer the 4K movies to non 4K devices that can direct play them. Like i have a separate library for 4K movies, and only certain users have access to that library that i have set up their clients to play those files directly so it does NOT transcode them. Hmm, interesting idea. Will it also choke modern processors as well, even with Plex hardware transcoding? Seems like a pain to split things into separate libraries manually, unless that can be automated somehow? Like if a movie is 4K, put it in my movies_4k folder instead?
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I have the standard SABnzbd/Sonarr/Radarr setup going in Windows (same PC as my Plex server), but I'm having issues with like 25% of my downloads not being sorted into the correct folder. They end up on my destination drive as the standard Title.Resolution.Quality.ReleaseGroup name instead of being renamed into Show (Year)\Season folders. I assume this has something to do with something locking the folder open. Any ideas on what would be causing this? In my Plex server settings, I have "scan my library automatically" (when changes are detected to library folders) and "run a partial scan when changes are detected" (when changes to library folders are detected, only scan the folder that changed). The "scan my library periodically" option is unchecked. Is there any reason to keep the first 2 both checked, or should I just use one of them? Could this scan lock the download folders so they can't be renamed and sorted properly?
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derk posted:really not a pain at all. I have not used that file before but will check it out, thanks!
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