QUOTE(bobowyc @ Oct 20 2017, 06:28 PM)
Oh. I only download FHD movies and animes. I dont rip, cause I dont buy Bluray movies. haha.. All DL.. lolol. For work the file/folder not that big, so I dont really need to use it. Only mainly my animes, now taking up 2.5TB/3TB HDD. haha.. And this disk just RMA only, the previous one gone in less than 1 year as I torrent it a lot, sometimes up to a week at one go. So i think thats why die. haha. Most of my animes got lost there. But I did manage to save about 2TB of my movies and uploaded them into the Dlink NAS that i bought, and the total damage there was 350+400 i think. lol. 350 NAS, 4TB WD Red 400 i think haha.. O well, I didnt have any choice cause I was actually planning to get a NAS which can directly stream movies, but that NAS cost like RM2k for even the basic one, excluding hard disks. At the moment I dont think I can afford 4x4TB hard drives. Planning get one 6TB or 10TB one for my PC and discard some HDDs, or put into my G4400 system as torrentpc. (no plans yet). ahaha. Just a thought. If I can use my G4400 as a NAS then I would be more than delighted to work on it. I have a spare monitor around too. haha.
1. The Dlink I have is the Dlink 320L i think, so its not meant to stream through 4G connection. Only from wired locations from the NAS to PCs. Even laptop cant. I tried. Unless there's a software which I didnt know about.. haha
2. Raid 1 meaning the hard drives are mirrored? Ive asked some sellers in lowyat and they said if u want faster stream must raid two hard drives (which ever capacity doesnt matter) at least to get a faster streaming speed. So meaning if 4x4TB, it'll be 2x4TB and 2x4TB?
3. Plex is 100% free? No ads? I tried to search for softwares, mostly require to pay before can use. haha.. but the features are cool with them, easy to use and stuffs, hassle free.
4. Seems straight forward.
5. Oh.. I dont really get what you mean here. So if my download quality suck, it'll suck even more? lol.
6. I have ports, but at the moment all used up. hahaha. Shizz. I bought a second hand router for my room. ahha. RT-N12HP. Used up all slots, 3PC and 1NAS. one of the 3 is my sister's pc in another room. May have to disconnect my NAS then.. If i really have no choice.
7. RDP means? Probably can sell the GC but I think it has some problems with it. lol. PC restarted when I tried to play CS previously on my AMD spec pc. Probably didnt go well with legacy mobos.
8. Ah.. So meaning. All these can only use from home? If 4G cannot access?
9. Yes. That is what I am looking for, and I like to tinker with my PC. hahaa. Added a few HDDs to my pc and cleaned it also. Now my AMD one also dusty like crap. Needs some cleaning soon already. haha.
Thank you bro. I will try to do it this sunday as tmr Im busy. haha. Will try to get it done quick, then probably can look for a 12TB Seagate Ironwolf drive. ahahaha. Rumored to price at 2.2k i think. Compare to 10TB 2k hahaha..
Thanks for your help. Will bookmark this page so I can check back on unknown issues. xD haha. If there is. Hopefully not. LOL
try to reply in points to you
1. The Dlink looks OK on paper, not sure of user experience. it has 2 bays so can raid 1, which means 2x3TB and it will mirror 1:1, if a disk spoil/bad sector you can pop in a new one and rebuild the data. The anime will not be lost this way. if want more space use 2x4TB in the future. But for the work please back up into external. NAS normally is connected via LAN, this is very normal.
2. Yes raid 1=mirror. Raid basically is for redundancy and speed. For streaming it is fast enough, in my experience 4GB movies 5Mbps batch, 15GB and above movies 20Mbps but biggest difference network vs internet is latency, hdd speed is 'about' 800Mbps, LAN speed is 1000Mbps. So raid to redundancy instead of speed unless you are constantly transferring large files, there is no need to have 2 raids just a raid in mirror in most software raid is fast enough.
3. Free & i don't know why, and there is also a Plex Pass and iphone have to pay a 1 time fee.
4. OK
5. Not really, i am just giving example of Plex's transcoder which is good
6. The Asus is good enough but LAN is not gigabit so when transfer data is slower only. 1 router and all others are switch, switch are a lot cheaper but they are for LAN only and preferred to be gigabit speed. you can add a switch to the other room and expand your network.
7. Remote Desktop Protocol, W10 feature, can be enabled easily. Remote desktop in your network so that you can access your server from other desktops for management, no need monitor for server. GC is not a need in your server if you have on board graphics.
8. yes from home which normally what network is for. this we are talking about streaming from your server in your home network. 4G if referring to internet yes but from browser and movies are not FHD. Latency and upload speed is the issue. Security is another
9. Yes all our old PC can turn them into file servers, it is not very difficult. In fact what you need i see is better to use old PC vs Dlink NAS, the only difference is W10 OS vs Dlink NAS OS.
When use PC you should have 6 sata ports on board, 1 for C and there is 5 more. therefore can add 5 disk, so 2x2TB + 2x2TB=8TB/2 for raid 1=4TB raid 1 virtual disk. One more for any spare hdd. Good enough for all your movies/anime.
Since already have the Dlink just have 2x4TB=8TB/2=4TB, most of your PC are already connected via LAN so can access files and watch from there. if use MPC i don't think need transcoding. however in the future if you watch on smart TV, tvbox, may need to upgrade.
Good luck on Sunday
latency: on left is a 3GB movie and right is a 15GB movie
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