![]() My storage approach has changed many times throughout the years, from being 11 years old and running 2 HDDs on an Atholon X2 system to the 4U rackmount redundant setup I run now. The download (green) is completely dwarfed by the upload (purple). I have teamed both NICs on the motherboard to allow for more streams to and from the server and this has worked pretty well, the following shows the servers NIC usage from September 2015 – January 2016 and as you can see there is always something being streamed from the machine. These cards are flashed to IT mode and work as HBAs, I’ve also run a driver mod to make them spin down my inactive disks which you can read here. I could get an expander and just use the one card but I had them in my cupboard so no need. I have 3 of these cards installed, which gives me the 6 ports I need as each card has 2 ports. I instead get 6 backplanes with an SFF8087 connector which I connect to one port on an LSI9211. The case I use does not have an expander built in for the 24 bays at the front, good rackmount cases are not only hard to find, but are extortionate prices here in the UK. You can see in the following image the CPU stats for a few months, during which the server was shared with 30+ individuals. The maximum number of streams I’ve seen it do at once was about 8/9 and it took that like a champ. It’s by no means anywhere near as crazy as I’ve seen some setups, but 6 cores and 12 threads is pretty dope and I still see a lot of life in it. It takes pretty much anything I throw at it, I’ve seen it transcoding 4 streams without even stepping up its frequencies which is pretty sweet. The CPU at the time I thought was pretty overkill, I still do a little bit to be honest but I wouldn’t trade it. The box runs Server2012R2 as I’m very familiar with it and actually really like it, this is run on 2 256GB SSDs in RAID1 however due to all the PMS metadata this will be changed to 2x 1TB SSDs very soon, I could just move the metadata to a larger SSD but I prefer this approach.ģ2GB of memory is pretty overkill but I am quite literally swimming in the stuff so I put it to use, the machine never really goes above 12GB used so it has plenty to spare. Intel 82579V Gigabit Network Connection x2 LACP.The Plex box itself is a whitebox build in a 4U hotswap case. I’ve had a lot of concurrent streams with this thing and it’s yet to break a sweat. In this example, the parent folder is simply named media.I’ve gotten a few requests from various places to show my Plex server to the world, this is not by any means as good as it gets but it is mine and it works phenomenally. You can still organize your films and television shows into individual folders, the important part is the shared parent folder. To be able to use hardlinks on Unraid you will need to have your downloads, televisions shows, and films all located under the same parent folder. Using Sonarr and Radarr hardlinks on Unraid You have the added benefit of seeing the file in your media folder almost instantly, and you do not have to wait for it to be completely copied over. A hardlink will allow you to neatly organize all of your media files while continuing to seed them. Using a hardlink for your download is the easiest way of giving back to the community. The filename in your media folder can even be cleaned up without issues. That way, you can continue to seed the file while an application such as Plex Media Server will be able to see it in your media folder. Practically, a hardlink allows you to easily set your BitTorrent or Usenet client to download your files to one directory and then leaving them in that directory while also appearing in a media folder where your completed downloads are moved to (except they aren’t moved at all).
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