Jason Bytes Back Ep. 34 - No Unraid Cache, useless GPU for Plex, Where is Joeys pants?
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The reason the warranty is less on external drives: They're external, which means more wear+tear from movement, not being attached to a substantial frame. Additionally, the included sata-usb bridge and power adapter and cables are built to a price. Which component fails first (mtbf)? All of the components are covered by the same warranty term, so they build them to outlast the warranty to a relative percentage of profitability.
Robot vacuum and robot lawnmower. Two most essential things in mans life. Waiting for robot snowblowers 😆
I did not authorize the use of my likeness, although I am surprised you can handle wearing a shirt with that much swagger on it.
pffft, the shirt was your idea.
Don't play coy with me lol
Lol. I wanted more of this stuff frm you guys, i am not at all disappointed! Stay awesome you legends.. gonna patreon up when i can afford it for you both. For now, just ad revenue :)
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+craft computing I hope you are messing with him about purchasing your merch and supporting you by wearing it. It's not like he is using your image to build his....
If this is all just banter why is the image now blurred ?
20:49 to hear him say peanut butter crapp'n crunch. Golden!
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Hey Jason, love the videos! Have you used your Quadro for hardware decoding on Blue Iris? How was your mileage?
He shouldn't of told us his favorite cereal 😈, JASON BE ON THE LOOKOUT!
Your camera image quality is amazing.
So is his taste in shirts... just not pants. LOL
It's the shirt that really brings out my eyes
Does the transcoding processing effort depend more on the target resolution than on the source resolution? Obviously if they are both the same, then no transcoding is required, however transcoding from 4K to 1080p would probably be more resource intensive than 4K to 720p. My thinking is that the program will have to encode the outgoing stream to the outgoing resolution and I think that the higher the outgoing resolution, the more resources it would take.
Nice - I got featured :) Thanks, Jason! Your response totally makes sense.
As for the SSD storage part: take a look at U.2 (And before you ask, there are adapters for that stuff ;) )
Ever consider putting together a grafana screen for all you info and cameras or building a movie poster screen for your man cave? Both are pretty awesome
the hazmat suite should be a back to the future cosplay
Jason. I'm prepping for the transition from windows to unraid. I have WD drives being used as external devices through USB. I plan on shucking them after coping my media off of them and putting them into a SATA enclosure. Would preclear be necessary as I have been using them for around a year? Any other tips for the transition? I want it to be smooth and seamless ^-^
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Video and has me laughing, the end was great when talking about the media buzz word. I hope you still go and I would like to go one year and bring my 9 year old as he is getting heavy into pc and the whole world of TH-cam and tech. Keep up the work and I know overkill all to well as I am running amd 2970x Threadripper with 64gb of ram 2tb of NVMe Samsung 970 drives as my cache, 1080ftw for virtual gaming, quadro p2000 for plex and 8x8tb shucked drives.... in the end I am the only one who streams off it and use less than 3% of this total machine lol
The problem with the optimize is that it bakes in all audio und subtitle settings like transcode. More power and transcode on demand is just easier.
Been following your videos for awhile. Pretty sure i have my server setup same as yours, I keep getting Codec Conversion errors. i may have narrowed it down to plex not being able to able EAC3 audio. have nvidia gpu for transcoding and have transcoding folder set to /tmp. Please help!
Thank you!
Have you considered making an SSD server/NAS with consumer SSDs? Would there be any downsides to buying say 8x 1TB Crucial MX500's and running them in FreeNAS or Unraid?
Is it better to have a 4c 8t processor for plex over a 4c 4t if they both have the same passmark score? 8320e vs I5 4590 non k. Thanks!!
What is the best way to backup UnRAID to an external USB hard drive. I have only 5tb used and bought a 10tb drive that I would like to use as a cold backup to take offsite.
PLEX Question! Can you add other language tracks to existing shows/movies on my library?
Hey Jason are you able to access unRaid gui from another pc? I'm interested in making the switch from bare metal. Any plans on revisiting BlueIris in VM?
Not sure if this question belongs on this video, since I'm wanting to know just about encoding.
I already have an 5500 XT, and I'm about to get an Ryzen 3950X. I'm going to do x265 encoding so should I let the 3950X do the encoding, or the 5500 XT, or do I need an Quadro P2000 to get the fastest times?
Sorry as this stuff still confuses me, Gary.
ps. I don't game, so that's why I don't have a higher end video card.
hey jason, possible question for your next video. Hardware acceleration using Plex on Freenas. If you put a graphics card into your server, do you need to set the BIOS to use the graphics card on startup in order for freenas to use it for the Hardware Acceleration or can you just connect a card up and carry on setting the acceleration up without doing anything to the BIOS???
Let me know if that doesnt make sense xD
hazmat with corona-chan printed :P
I did rma a shucked drive. WD received it last week, and they show it in the support queue. Unless something changes, it shows my shucked drive is being returned. Will update you with details when I get whatever they send back.
I just built a 3990x system 😂😂, also my Roomba s series does a pretty incredible job. Also, letting it run more frequently than I would normally vacuum limits how much work it has Todo.
I have it in the works to build a htpc w/ a Blu-ray play installed, and I’d like to future proof it. Now I’ll admit I haven’t watched all your videos but I have watched a good bit of them, I’d like to hear your take on hdmi 2.1 and hdcp 2.2. I’m really confused on what pc parts to purchase.
What do you think of the Intel Pentium G5400 as a budget plex server platform? It supports hardware transcoding with quicksync up to 4k hdr 10bit, seems to handle quite a bit for such a cheap processor.
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Hi Jason. A question about the little thumbnails u can use when u go back and forth in a movie or series? I have a series where the thumbnail showen is from the previous episode, and not the one i’m watching. Do u have a fix to that by any chance? :-) thx in advance
Possibly the most completely random question but...how did you make / where did you get the TH-cam sub counter on the shelf behind you?
If the built in Plex optimization doesn't work (I'm currently using a seedbox in the short term until I build my own server) can I manually optimize my content with handbrake? I have 4k content for myself but I want to optimize smaller files for my other remote users. And if I can, would Plex automatically pick the correct version based on the user?
hey, maybe a silly question, but i'm really not computer smart. and i have my plex library spread over 4 6tb disks right now, and i wanted to use unraid to make a raid array but i am scared to do it because i don't want to have to redownload my entire library, i have a terrible download speed. my question is, is there a way for me to add all the disks to an array without loosing data, and adding another 6tb drive for parity?
I have read that starting out with 1 disk then adding each drive in a separate cycle would keep you safe, since each added drive would require the raid to copy the data to the new drive... But i am waiting to Jason to give his views.
I agree with Ani. But you should waterfall it. For the data to be separated on each drive than one full and 3 empty.
Is plex buffering due to internet speed on the receiving end ( transcoding from my house to my friends house ) ? , or can hardware cause this ?
Does an NVME SSD make a significant difference for Plex on Unraid vs a SATA SSD?
Thoughts on running Plex (and the associated apps like NZBget, Sonarr, Radarr, etc) in Docker containers?
I just encode them to all stream formats and some times I play them on my phone - I use the 5900
Are you using Windows Storage Spaces to pool your SSDs into a larger logical drive?
I use the disk utility because for whatever reason. Storage spaces was refusing to pool my SSDs.
@@cheddar07 Thanks for that heads up. Guess I'll stick to Stablebit.
Minor detail, but clearing a drive in unRaid is completely unrelated to the size of any drive in the array.
Using a threadripper system for plex is too costly? I use an older i3-2260(?) Lenovo as my server, while having the video's on a homebrew NAS. I only have 1 or 2 users and files are in MKV x265 format. No issues even when someone is running Netflix or Hulu at 4k.
I have a question that might be best for a whole video, As an ESXI user, Should i swap from running Freenas in a VM, to Unraid in a VM, or Would Unraid be a good enough replacement for ESXI all together?
Very limited experience with various hypervisors including ESXI, trying various things for my server. Once I tried UnRaid, I never had a reason to look at anything else or go back to anything else.
On running unraid in a VM, it is doable, but a pain, as unraid needs to read the unique UUID of the USB flash drive it is installed on. if you can pass through all the hardware directly to the unraid VM it will work, but at that point I think you're better off running unraid on bare metal and using it to manage your VMs. Just to play with it and see how it works a VM works fine, but for actual deployment, unless there is some function that it doesn't support (I'm not aware of any) you're better off running Unraid on the bare metal.
Unraid's only real limitation right now is the 30 drive limit. while this is more than enough for most people, if you have dozens of drives to connect it could be a drawback. It's easy enough to work around, however, with hardware RAID if you need all the drives in one pool. if separate pools work for your use, you can add ZFS pools outside of the main array.
@@johngaltline9933 the ability to float VMs between servers is probably the only reason keeping me with esxi but I do like the idea of being able to expand my array easily with unraid it might be worth a switch.
I speak Spanish and your 34 was ok 👍😂
How do you back up your 300 TB server and how much does it cost?
That’s a business level of data so there is money to do it. Backup the same as any small business. Online backups and offline backups. It requires storage. Drives or tapes. Then it’s math.
Lots of large drives, probably a raid type or parity. Then tapes if necessary. Tapes seem to be much more expensive than drives.
I'm needing a newer NAS system (currently limited to a 500 GB Buffalo NAS bought like ~10 years ago). But I've got extra cpu's and motherboards with ram installed. For a simple file server I'm thinking that re purposing an I5 or core 2 duo should do the trick for me. Is there any gotchas I should look out for? Currently I've also got Drobo V2 usb but it's getting long in the tooth and needs to be connected to a windows or mac system. I know they have professional NAS's , but would like to re purpose old hardware if I can. I'm thinking Freenas on a Core 2 duo would be fine for serving up files for movies and using for file storage. Any tips (mostly a single user on my plex system)?
I have read that a dual core is powerful enough for a NAS or file server.
I would suspect it depends on the drives and SATA speeds. A 10 year old system vs. something that's like more than 10 years processor would be different. But I'm sure that NAS has a slower professor and drive speeds.
Jason, have you looked at TDarr (github)? also have you ever played with Proxmox?
You know over the next year parts are only getting more expensive because of supply shortages from the virus
At roughly 20:46, did he really say "Peanut Butter Crapin' Crunch"? Was that intentional or just kinda the way it came out?
Jason, you mention doing something about your background - Why not paint it as a "green screen" and superimpose any background you want when you edit your videos? Doing this means you can change it at a moments notice, and frequently. You can even superimpose PC wallpapers, if you don't have your own collection of photos. If your wall is White, you can probably get away with using colored lights to make it GREEN enough for getting the same Green Screen effect.
Update": oops, you already addressed GREEN SCREEN use!
I have a plex server running windows 10 pro, Have SSD for OS, Storage is 5 x 8 TB HD's. I have 2 x8TB as one expanded disk for movies and another 2x8TB expanded disk for TV shows. I would like to move to unraid system adding more HD's as I can. Can you walk through this keeping Windows 10 as OS.
No link to the rack?
its in the description :)
Although we're only talking about Plex and nothing else - no need for a higher processor... If you have a GPU.
Talk to Linus about an editing server. You should make one like his.
Hi Jason! I am From Brazil... So i just build a simple server AMD Ryzen 5 2600 with Gigabyte 1050 Ti. I am using Win 10. My upload speed is 20 mbits and i wanna do 4/5 streams. What are the best settings to transcode from 1080p h.264 to 720p no 4K. Does AMD support this number of streams? Thank you for your always fun videos!
Hey Jason,
I'm going to build a new server (Unraid), mainly for Plex. On the side there will be a cloud hosted and 1 win10 VM, in the future maybe a second. What CPU can I choose best. Purely highest passmark or do I have to get more cores/threads?
If you are running vms.. more is better. I'm running unraid and a single Vm windows 10 running milestone for 5 cameras. I have a 3700x and run around 5% cpu usage with plex and my vm running.. its 8 cores 16 threads.
@@triplerinse thanx for your reply. I'm looking into the Ryzen9 3900x with a 12/24 count but was in doubt because there also is the threadripper 2970x with 24/48.. Only thing is the price difference🤔. And since I'm not going to have that much vm's I think the 3900x might be the better choice. That way I can also upgrade the ram to 128GB and transcodes through ram 😁
My VM is intended to run my software for access control (small DB) and a rather large DB of e-books
Someone complaining about robot vacuums obviously doesn't have pets that shed a lot and love to play in the yard and back in the house constantly. I decided to get mine after I vacuumed and then had to get down and look under a bookcase and noticed that the floor was still covered in dog hair only moments after I vacuumed. Don't whine about getting a good vacuum either as we've had only Dyson vacuums since the 90's so it doesn't matter as they can't catch everything... the robot just keeps it clean(er) by running every day and helping keeping the mountain of hair and dirt my dog brings in at bay.
As for Dyson being a good investment... heh... you obviously never had the first hand held they released in 2006... ran full power for a whopping *6mins* before needing a couple of hours to recharge and it cost like $400. And that died within two years... Totally worth it... not. Don't get me wrong, I like the Dyson vacuums and they _can_ be good, as long as you are not the suckers that buy the first or probably even the second versions of them like my family has been.
Guess it's time for sometimes new. Thank LiquidCipher for the recommendation. Vanilla or strawberry ice cream?
Marcus Elensar :)
meh, dont really like ice cream ;p
@@Bytemybits That's no fun. How about Ribeye or sirloin?
Your one of my top TH-camrs Jason, Sorry if you've answered this before but is youtube your full-time job?
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Are you going to LTX this year?
Yeap!
Can I have this question answered?
plz
How the F*** do you turn off transcoding!!??
No. Just no. 14:07
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Comment - Brought several WD Easystore external Desktop drives, several died in the first month for w/e reason. They was shucked. Sent them off to WD for RMA as a bare drive. No reply or status update for a month. Emailed them for a status update. Email replied with WD rejecting them for "tamper". Overall, can NOT recommend WD for anything at this point. Horrible product, Horrible RMA/customer service, failed warranty. Official WD RMA Update status still has not changed after a week from email update. Drives aren't back yet.
Yes where is Joeys pants jason ? Do @Craft Computing have them? common tell us Jeff. Did you take them ?
I bet Jeff took them!
Finn Andersen I’m still wondering myself!
Where do babies come from?
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The reason they sell them cheaper in Enclosures is due to manufacturing tolerances and trying to purchase parts the cheapest possible. When they assemble the moving bits that go into each hard drive, they have a test in which they are energized and listened to in a quiet room to listen to the harmonics of the drive before the platters are installed if it falls within a specific range, they have figured out that the drives will last longer with parts from those harmonic ranges and any that fall outside those ranges they staggering them along different products based on expected life. It cost too much to make parts more precise, so they manufacture them based on a ratio of precision output to cost and just creating other products with different run life based on expected life from the harmonics. This is why occasionally you will see massive discounts on the enclosure drives because they probably had an abundance of the lower tier parts that month and need to clear inventory of them and they expect people using an enclosure HHD to rarely use it to really witness the spin time required for it to die.
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Green screen sucks.
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