10TB WD Easystore + 32GB USB $180

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Got one from Best Buy when it was $169 w/ the 32GB flash drive.

So far so good, doing a Surface test (26 hours).

10TB Easystore WD100EMAZ-00WJTA0
 
Bought 8 last time. I need to get 10 more. I’ll have to check tomorrow if it’s still available.
 
I ordered one from best buy for next day shipping, $148.74 after tax. Not bad for 8tb
 
Nvm looks like the promocode is dead when the box doesnt show up
 
That's a lot. The Plex is strong with this one.

My Plex is only 2-3 tb. The rest is family videos and pictures, computer back ups for my whole family, (this is probably the largest one probably 8tb total) and files for my consulting side business.
 
My plex is a modest 30tb and growing. I’ve decided to only buy 10tb+ from now on though.
 
My plex is a modest 30tb and growing. I’ve decided to only buy 10tb+ from now on though.
16x4tb here. Next time I upgrade, I will use 8 or 10tb drives. I would like the price to drop just a bit more on them. I don't want to shuck a bunch of drives.
 
You guys got me beat, I am only add 3x8tb with 4x2tb for redundancy in snap raid. Odd setup I know, but I upgraded from 2tb drives. This has enabled me, at least for now to not have to buy a 8tb and not use the space because its a parity drive. Would love to get a few more. But I have 10tb free and filling it slowly.
 
What gains are there when using 7200rpm over a 5400?
For most part I'm planning to store media to watch. Might do light video editing but I guess that would use primary SSD. I'm trying to understand what circumstances do you go for 7200?..
 
What gains are there when using 7200rpm over a 5400?

You gain a small number of iops. So it's only truly meaningful when you have a large enough number of spindles and an appropriate raid layout where that small number aggregates into a meaningful value.
 
You gain a small number of iops. So it's only truly meaningful when you have a large enough number of spindles and an appropriate raid layout where that small number aggregates into a meaningful value.
Can you please explain it in simpler English for me? :happy: I don't understand a single thing.
 
Can you please explain it in simpler English for me? :happy: I don't understand a single thing.
Basically when you use raid it can provide increased performance because while the small speed increase of 15-20Mbps in a single drive is negligible, linking 5+ of the faster drives in raid can be a substantial performance difference.
 
I was reading it like "if the hard drive has enough spindles". No wonder I couldn't understand it.
But running just one and using it 95% for just playing movies. 5400 vs 7200 wouldn't show any difference?
 
I was reading it like "if the hard drive has enough spindles". No wonder I couldn't understand it.
But running just one and using it 95% for just playing movies. 5400 vs 7200 wouldn't show any difference?
You will notice no difference at all, even witrh 4k files.
 
Two people might watch at same time. Three would be super rare.
If you're using something like Plex to do this, I think you'll be fine. It queues up chunks of data at a time, rather than stream the little bit of data constantly. Make sure you keep the plex media server program data on an ssd, and you should never have problems. Also a good idea to keep the transcode directory on another drive (mechanical not ssd,) but not as important. Your internet upload speed will likely be a limiting factor long before the drive's capabilities.
 
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If you're using something like Plex to do this, I think you'll be fine. It queues up chunks of data at a time, rather than stream the little bit of data constantly. Make sure you keep the plex media server program data on an ssd, and you should never have problems. Also a good idea to keep the transcode directory on another drive, but not as important. Your internet upload speed will likely be a limiting factor long before the drive's capabilities.

I'd recommend not keeping your transcode directory on an SSD. That's the only way I've ever killed one but it did still last 6 years. If you do go that root, dedicate one to it so when you do have to replace it, it's a simple swap with nothing else installed on that drive. Doesn't have to be large, but the writes will eventually kill it.
 
I'd recommend not keeping your transcode directory on an SSD. That's the only way I've ever killed one but it did still last 6 years. If you do go that root, dedicate one to it so when you do have to replace it, it's a simple swap with nothing else installed on that drive. Doesn't have to be large, but the writes will eventually kill it.
Where do you change the transcode directory?
 
Settings->transcoder and then change the temp directory.
I gave my plex 64 gigs of ram so I could allocate a 48gb ramdisk transcode directory, thats on top of being SSD base, it queues and plays insanely fast.

(it also keeps transcode from eating up writes on my SSD)
 
I'd recommend not keeping your transcode directory on an SSD. That's the only way I've ever killed one but it did still last 6 years. If you do go that root, dedicate one to it so when you do have to replace it, it's a simple swap with nothing else installed on that drive. Doesn't have to be large, but the writes will eventually kill it.
You're absolutely correct, I did not make that clear. The transcode directory works just fine on a mechanical drive, it's what I myself do. Just the Plex Media Server data benefits from being on an ssd. I edited my post to clarify.
 
How do you guys have this setup? Like what kind of build do you have? I feel like I should start another thread for this.?
 
Been trying to order for the past few hours, can't get shoprunner to work...and out of stock. Typical Newegg.
 
Been trying to order for the past few hours, can't get shoprunner to work...and out of stock. Typical Newegg.
Typical in what way. I have ordered 10's of thousands worth of computer parts from Newegg. If you mean typical in that I get what I ordered and have returned wrongly ordered parts w/out issue. shrug

But if you mean you're having an issue or they are having an issue or "Shoprunner" is having an issue.. ... .. shit happens
If people could not order from newegg I doubt they'd still be in business.
 
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