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Agreed, SMR drives suck for RAID. When I built my first NAS, I was also using Reds. Fortunately, I had ordered them just before the switch to SMR, so they were effectively Red Plus drives. For 8TB and above, WD uses Ultrastar drives in those external enclosures, so I don't see how you would get a Red, Green, or Blue. I don't think WD has used anything but NAS/Enterprise drives in the Easystore product for years, at least at the >=8TB level. Lately I've been using Seagate EXOS x14 & x16 drives, and I've gotten all of them below $250 for 14TB drives from Newegg. It's strange. Sometimes a 14TB drive will cost less than a 12TB drive in the identical brand. I expect with the largest capacities getting above 20TB now, perhaps the 14TB plateau will bump up a bit. Hopefully. One side note from earlier. There is no one parity drive. Parity is striped across the whole array. If you have three disks in RAID 5, for example, the first write may write data to disk 1 & 2, parity to 3. The next write will be data to disk 2 & 3, parity on 1. The third write will be data to 3 & 1, parity to 2. And so on. This will make your storage size the sum of all drives minus one. A benefit often overlooked with a parity RAID array is the ability of the array to correct bit errors when using btrfs filesystems. A btrfs filesystem on a RAID 5,6 or 10 can greatly mitigate losses from bitrot. Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus | |||
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Man this thread makes my head hurt. And I'm fairly tech savvy. If I were to build a dedicated PC for Plex, how much would I really need? I read that an Intel i7 is required for transcoding 4k, but then I also read that transcoding is only if you plan on watching remotely on mobile devices. I only plan on using it locally on TVs, likely through Chromecast. | |||
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I use an Intel NUC i5 with 16GB RAM. I stream everything locally to TV's using either native apps or Roku devices and I don't transcode. I have almost no 4k content but lot's of 1080P that's compressed. Everything looks just fine on all the screens big (77") and small. | |||
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