Subj : Re: Plex Media Server drive upgrade
To   : Adept
From : Spectre
Date : Sun Aug 21 2022 21:23:00

First up, aloe vera, or is that the Adeptus Astartes. :)  You've been quiet
for a bit.

 Ad> I'm getting an Asustor for a similar setup, as I try and figure out how to
 Ad> sync important data across devices and also not run out of space anywhere.

I have a Thecus device filling that role. At the time I bought 2 new 8TB
drives to put in it.  I did have a massive amount of monolithic data tied up
in video, unfortunately I lost most of it while playing around with mergerfs
so it lies heavily under utilised.

 Ad> I'm still trying to mentally figure out how I want the situation to work.
 Ad> I'm not really sure what I envision, but I'm hopeful it includes
 Ad> filling up the drives in that, and not on my laptop or desktop.

I find I still tend to collect stuff in the downloads folder and all over my
desktop.  Part of it is images, for the Apple II Hardware data base, but the
rest of it is pretty random, odd music, applications. I have to get around
and pack it away into the NAS preiodically.

 Ad> It feels weird, here, where all our messages and ANSI graphics and whatnot
 Ad> can generally fairly comfortably fit into a very small place (depending on
 Ad> what our retention policies and file bases look like I suppose).

Mine are hanging out of a ~40Mb NFS share... handy to just mount the share in
a virtual system and run it from there.

 Ad>  Ni> a while..  But I can hear someone say sarcastically "18TB ought to be
 Ad>  Ni> enough for anyone", and I'll probably fill it up eventually.

A while back, read a long time ago, "we" had trouble having HD space for all
the stuff we were downloading or creating.  But somewhere through the Gb
range of hard drives space started to exceed my ability to fill, and I find
that is much the case even now.  Aforementioned loss of data partially to
blame but I don't acquire data at the same rate I used to.

Spec


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