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ch00f OP , 4 months ago to Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services. in [Question] What to spend money on for server upgrade?

That's interesting. I'm running a software raid since I've been warned of dying raid controllers making your data irretrievable unless you buy an exact replacement. I guess the enterprise folks have that figured out.

Having a little trouble finding details online. Do those two cables going off to the right split off into a bunch of SATA connections?

ch00f OP , 4 months ago to Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services. in [Question] What to spend money on for server upgrade?

Yeah, I have an offline backup I do every year in a fireproof safe in my basement. Might open a safe deposit box at some point, but I feel reasonably safe.

Good call on power efficiency. I'll have to keep that in mind. I think I'm currently drawing around 100W which is mostly the hard drives (the CPU doesn't even need a fan). I assume that might go up a bit in a new build, but I think the benefits will be worth it.

ch00f OP , 4 months ago to Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services. in [Question] What to spend money on for server upgrade?

Not sure what Plex is using, but Shinobi and Photoprism do.

Plex usually runs at native resolution, but it can just barely run if it has to downscale or bake in subtitles in real time. I'll have to check the settings to see what it's using.

Edit: Ah, looks like you need to pay for Plex Pass to enable Quick Sync.

ch00f OP , 4 months ago to Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services. in [Question] What to spend money on for server upgrade?

So my current processor has QuickSync. Are there generations of quicksync? Would a newer implementation be faster? There's not a lot of data out there. It seems like QS support is either yes or no.

ch00f OP , 4 months ago to Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services. in [Question] What to spend money on for server upgrade?

Thanks for the tips!

To clarify, by "x99," do you mean LGA2011-3? That's the socket wikipedia associates with the hardware.

And as for Arc, it looks like they're a great option for video encoding. I'm actually using QuickSync already on my Celeron processor which has helped. From what I can understand, it looks like QuickSync is basically the same processor on all of the Arc cards, so I can just go with the cheapest card if I don't plan to use much of the other features? Looking like an A380 can be had for $100 or so.

ch00f , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in noob hardware question

I have a media server with over 1000 Blu-ray and DVDs on it (and a few UHDs).

Recommendations: decide if you care about subtitles early. Ripping subtitles off blu ray is a pain in the ass. They’re not stored as text but rather as images, so you need software like SubtitleEdit to OCR those images back into text. It gets it wrong all the time. Ripping off DVD is easy, so I just grab all sub tracks off DVDs.

I have six 8TB drives in a RAID6 configuration using MDADM on a Ubuntu Server box. It’s using a very cheap motherboard with integrated CPU. I had to add a PCI SATA card to have enough ports. Same machine hosts all my photos, security camera footage, and other files.

Movies are ripped on my gaming PC using makemkv and Handbrake. I haven’t bothered finding a method for re-encoding UHD since we’re only going to watch them at home where bandwidth isn’t an issue (so I have like 300GB of LoTR lol). I picked up a bunch of cheap used drives from goodwill (mostly DVD drives), so I’ll queue up 5 or so movies before bed and let it run overnight.

Movies are hosted on Plex and watched on phones, tablets, and AppleTVs around our house.

ch00f , 4 months ago to Technology in OpenAI collapses media reality with Sora AI video generator | If trusting video from anonymous sources on social media was a bad idea before, it's an even worse idea now

Imagine generating 5,000 videos of different people (likenesses pulled from Facebook) reacting to a fake calamity staged in a certain city.

ch00f , 4 months ago to Technology in Those free USB sticks in your drawer are somehow crappier than you thought

I remember some kid at a job fair in college handing out his resume on flash drives. I remember one of the booths saying “yeah, that’s not getting read.”

ch00f , 6 months ago to Memes in My cousin said the gas savings for a prius and a motorcycle were the same.

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Until, abruptly, you aren't.