Home Servers\Homelabs: NAS, Plex, & Everything Else

[Sonny Bonds]

I have a Synology server. Its great.

Which one do you have?

If any of yall are looking to acquire extra storage Best Buy has this 10TB external drive on sale for $180.00
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-eas...usb-flash-drive-black/6290669.p?skuId=6290669

Crack the external open and there's a 10TB white label drive in there which is a re-branded red drive.

I bought 2 the other day and one was dead.

 

[winb83]

Which one do you have?

I bought 2 the other day and one was dead.

I just bought 2 of them. Tested one and am moving about 5TBs of data to it now. The other has been shucked but I haven't decided if I wanna put it in my TiVo or swap the 8TH easystore from my gaming PC for it.

 

[Ukbrotha]

Which one do you have?

I bought 2 the other day and one was dead.

DS214+ had it for a few years now. Great kit.

 

[abominable1]

I bought a zyxel nas 4 bay server 2 years ago, set it up to run raid 10 ( so have my data completely backed up automatically). I use Kodi as my media center with the movie database to get the metadata. It's a 10 tb setup. Best investment I made.
Only thing is I had a drive go bad and had to cold swap it out. The software handled everything and I did not lose one thing.

I should have did this year's ago . Still paranoid though I have a backup of the nas on some externals

 

[Sonny Bonds]

I bought a synology. I installed Plex to stream media to my TV with a fire stick. It's nice to have everything I've acquired over years in a nice organized library. I'm really impressed with the interface.

 

[Tenchi Ryu]

Currently using plex throughout the home

 

[Majestyx]

I use Kodi as my frontend. The way it was meant to be used before it got flooded with pirated movie repos LOL.

XBMC I still use kodi like that from time to time.

 

[BobbyBooshay]

My Synology is perfect for me

 

[bucks3115]

I have aboud 46TB worth of movies and tv shows that I stream to friends and family. Anywhere to as much as 10 people stream at a time so far, but usually around 2.
What you should look into purchasing depends ENTIRELY on your use case. Otherwise we are pissing in the dark here

is it possible for me to stream your movies even if im overseas ?

 

[TripleAgent]

is it possible for me to stream your movies even if im overseas ?

Anywhere with internet. Results may vary, though.

 

[bucks3115]

Anywhere with internet. Results may vary, though.

hook me up
help a coli brother
you might have an interesting collection

 

[Take It In Blood]

hook me up
help a coli brother
you might have an interesting collection

severs cost money breh

 

[TripleAgent]

hook me up
help a coli brother
you might have an interesting collection

Misread, thought you meant yours. I don't use Plex, just Kodi for the house. All these 4K movies don't stream well, Comcast down speed is good, but the up is trash.

 

[el_oh_el]

Anywhere with internet. Results may vary, though.

This.
Biggest invisible factor is your ISP interconnect to the rest of the world

 

[StatUS]

I have a 10 terabyte server running a basic pro build of Windows 10. In the past I've used Windows Home Server and Server 2012 I think it was as well as FreeNAS. At the end of the day Windows 10 has been the most solid for my needs. In lieu of a traditional raid setup I use this software from this company Stablebit called Drivepool. It basically lets you take a bunch of drives regardless of size or partition and combine them or mix and match them into groups. The best part is it keeps all the data in NTFS format so even if you needed to remove a Drive from the pool you could read the data on the individual Drive like you would any other hard drive. It also load balances all the drives. I've used it for about 5 years now and I swear by it. I use Kodi as my frontend. The way it was meant to be used before it got flooded with pirated movie repos LOL.

Kodi always had pirate repos since the OG Xbox. But it is the GOAT networknmedia player.

Anyway, I'm trying to get back on my media server. Are people moving away from platter drives and going straight ssd now?