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I ended up keeping them in the mkv format, I get all of the sound a good picture quality I built a new server just for this so life is good now. I have a bit of space to grow

I purchased some drives off of newegg 3tb hgst drives to be exact, found out they were refurbished. My mistake on not reading the ad, I understand this when a drive was tested it said it has ran for 19k hours, that concerns me. is this normal? I'm thinking of returning them. thoughts anyone?

I currently have my movies on a 6TB drive and my TV Shows on a 3TB drive and my music on its own 3TB drive. I have the same size external drives that I keep up to date backups on. I do like the idea of have mirrored drives, and I do believe that my LSI 9211 card can do that with no worries. I am...

Thank you everyone, I just put in another 3TB HDD so i will just leave them in the MKV format as suggested. most of the BluRays are the action / animated films that I want to keep, my cpu is long in the tooth however still a good one (i7 3770) with 32gb ram, I don't have the desire right now to...

I have all of my BluRays ripped with MakeMKV and was wondering if leaving them in this format is good with Plex Media Server, or should I just use handbrake and transcode them to MP4 as the same as my SD Movies. Which is the Best way to have them?

Thank you, it looks good, and part picker says newegg has in stock, however when I go to newegg itself, it says out of stock.

Good Evening All, I have an Intel DH77EB motherboard which is paired with an i7 3770 and 32gb of ram. The motherboard has dropped 1 sata port and now the video is going south. None of my local PC shops carry the 1155 motherboard any more and I really can't find one that I like on newegg as they...

I've got a pretty decent Plex server, and I just added a 3tb drive so I do not mind leaving them, however I do put the movies on the ipads for the kids when they travel so I do like having them at a smaller size. right now I have the settings for handbrake set at video constant quality 15, audio...

Forgive me if this has been posted, I did a search and could not find. I have a Plex server, Roku's and IPads, I have a few movies that I have that I can no longer rip with AnyDVD so I started to use MakeMKV which plays the movies great on my PC using VLC player. the Blurays are pretty large...

Hello Everyone! I have a domain with about 200 users all over the US, in all but one location we have a Gigabit network with ample server storage. I just upgraded to Server 2012 R2 for all server and have a specific server for the users Home drives and folder redirection. My question is this...

I have been installing SSD's into laptops and have noticed that the update process in Windows 7 is taking forever now. The latest one that I have installed took over night to find all of the updates, Is anyone else having this problem? I am not installing Windows 10 just yet for our business,

I have to replace the current 500gb hard drive in my wife's laptop. I can get a 1tb mechanical for $99 or a 250gb SSD for the same price. is the SSD worth going to? then just pick up a 500gb for an external?

Correct, no metadata for the new tv shows. the only difference on the shows is that the new are Bluray's. I have made sure that the metadata is set to thetvdb.com and have also switched it to my local metadata in the settings. I'm really perplexed by this.

I recently upgraded to the latest version of Plex, now I am having an issue where Plex will see the media, add it to the TV Show list, but it will just say Episode 1, 2 etc. I have converted the shows, (Blu Ray Version of X-Files) with makemkv, then changed to MP4. once this is done I use media...

I had an HTPC in every room of my house with a server running all of my media. I combined my living room HTPC and server into a nice Fractal Design case and now I am moving that out of the living room. I recently just purchased 3 Roku 3 and 1 Roku 4 (just to try it out) and am loving the...