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# Plex
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## History
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My Plex server is what started my homelab. I had two 3 TB drives laying around so I thought I should try out setting up a plex server.
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This was hosted on a single Proxmox server on the hardware that would later turn into `london-a`. I thought I was being smart about the way I had it set up, using seperate VMs for each function of the setup with a VM serving the central storage over NFS.
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I hadn't thought about the limitations of NFS when I set it up and I would often find that if I was downloading media while streaming I would reach the limits of NFS I/O.
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Once I got hold of 3 new hard drives of 8 TBs (24 TB striped capacity). I bit the bullet and installed the OS on the bare metal which leads us to the current setup.
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## Current Setup
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My current plex setup is running on my `london-b` server. The server is rediculously overpowered as a media server, it's equipped with a Threadripper CPU and an Nvidia GTX 980.
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The GPU helps a bit with transcoding while streaming but the CPU can easily transcode plenty fast by itself.
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The storage is directly attached to the motherboard and my three 8 TB drives are striped to maximize the usable storage. I don't really care if I loose a disk, since it's only movies and TV shows anyway. Although, it would suck having to re-download everything.
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I use the so-called "*arr" stack. Radarr, Sonarr & Prowlarr for movies, TV shows and trackers respectively.
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For my download client I first went with Deluge which I **not** like. It was slow and sluggish, constantly corrupting downloads and not cleaning up after itself.
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So I'm now using Transmission, which is brilliant. It's so good I'm able to have 100 active torrents at once!
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## Future upgrades
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I'm planning a rather large purchase to expand my raid array with 21 additional disks which would bring my total capacity to 192 TB (this will not be striped). |