@scottalanmiller said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676:
@marcinozga said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676:
How about Sata to molex adapter and another molex to sata?
Couldn't find one, I looked. Do you know of one? That would be simple.
https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=7642 - male sata to female molex
https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=8799 - male molex to female sata
Plex needs lots of CPU power if your clients require transcoding. I have a 4 core E3 Xeon, 1231 I think, running Fedora on bare metal, but Plex and others run in docker containers. All my media is sitting in Google Drive, I have that mounted with https://github.com/plexdrive/plexdrive , some use rclone too. Google Drive for business cost me $12 a month and comes with unlimited storage, I think I'm pushing close to 100TB now. I've had way too many drive failures, I even had LSI SAS controller flipping on me, and after spending close to $1500 on storage alone, I said screw that. There's even Plexdrive docker image to keep your base system kosher, I think it comes with option of UnionFS and MergerFS, but that's more advanced topic.
See https://cloudbox.works/ for some ideas, I built my server in similar way. Cloudbox is a set of Ansible roles to setup completely automated media server. Mine is a bit different, I use Traefik as reverse proxy, with added OAuth2 authentication layer.
@dafyre said in NAS for Plex use... Again:
@hobbit666 said in NAS for Plex use... Again:
My god you lot have spent some ££££/$$$$ on your Home lab/Media Servers
I only have like 10 film and 4 television series on my Plex at the moment, and only 3tb storage lol.
I had an interesting storage setup at one time where my videos were cached locally to my Plex server, and they were aged out onto Cloud storage. So I could watch any movie I wanted whenever I wanted, but if my internet connection went down, I was limited to only what was cached on the Plex server.
I used UnionFS to do this... I may need to look at doing that again! lol.
I don't think UnionFS is actively developed anymore, MergerFS is better solution.
@wirestyle22 said in NAS for Plex use... Again:
@brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again:
@DustinB3403 My wife ripped all the DVD and Blu-Ray discs. It is pretty much her "project". I just maintain it. I believe we have about 460 movies or so. I ripped all my music to flac files and have it on there as well. Works great for my needs.
Even if you buy the media the act of breaking the DRM is illegal, so there doesn't seem to be any legitimate way to do it outside of non-DRM content.. Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, Crunchyroll, etc are really not a replacement for Plex. I deleted my Plex server when we moved into the house and moved over to streaming services. It feels very limiting. I also hate having to search for content in multiple applications. If someone developed a website that shows you a single pane for all of your streaming services I bet a lot of people would use it.
I only mentioned paid streaming services as an alternative to usenet. If you have to pay to pirate media, you might just spend that money on legit services.
There's AppleTV and iOS app, WatchAid TV Show Planner, it tracks your TV shows and links directly to streaming services. Not perfect and not a complete solution as it doesn't support movies, but it's a start.
@Pete-S said in NAS for Plex use... Again:
@marcinozga said in NAS for Plex use... Again:
@Grey said in NAS for Plex use... Again:
@marcinozga said in NAS for Plex use... Again:
@Pete-S said in NAS for Plex use... Again:
@marcinozga said in NAS for Plex use... Again:
It really depends how much storage and CPU you need. If you need lots of storage, nothing beats unlimited, and I think only G Suite Business is viable option. I know lots of people host Plex with Hertzner, Vultr is probably attractive option too.
I had a look and it looks like you need 5 minimum users on G Suit Business to get unlimited TBs. If it's $12 per month then that becomes $60 per month. Under a five year period that's $3600.
Not saying it's the same thing but for the exact same money you can buy 9 x 16TB enterprise drives with 5 year warranty. That's about 100 TB of actual storage.
Using Drive makes sense in your case but if someone only needs say 10-15 TB, I'm not sure it does. And 10 TB may not sound like a lot but if we are talking about H.264 video it's more than 3000 movies/5000 episodes. Even if you binge watch 5 hours a day, every day, it will take about 3 years to get through it.
Google doesn't enforce that limit, and one of their engineers confirmed that, I just can't find the source. I'm paying $12/mo for 1 user and I'm using close to 100TB. My 5 year cost is $720, good luck finding drives for that price.
Average 1080p movie is about 25GB.
Ehhhh... No. Average 1080p is about 3gb. It really depends on the bitrate used when you encode the ripped data. I have 2 1080p movies and one is 18564 kbps bitrate while the other is 2634 kbps. The second one is 2:40 long and just under 3gb, but the other one is 1:30 and just shy of 16gb. You really have to pay attention to more than just the resolution. Audio can change things a lot, too.
That's on the low end, usually ripped from Netfilx, iTunes or some other web source. And most likely with AC3 audio. If you want good quality rip, 25GB is actually conservative estimate, I have some files over 65GB.
Ah, you're a videophile.
Good to know that they don't enforce the file limit. As long as they don't, you have a good thing going. Google is loosing money on you for sure. But who knows how long that will last?
The only thing I'm wondering is how you watch your movies? If a movie is 25GB and say 90 minutes for simplicity, then that's about 50 Mbps average transfer rate. That's about 10 times more than Netflix at their highest 1080p quality. Do you get that from google drive consistently?
I don't think Google cares too much, there are hundreds, maybe thousands of users like me. And if we all upload the same file, which is quite likely if you get them from torrents or usenet, it gets deduplicated, so Google hardly even notices it. I wouldn't be surprised if my actual usage was 0.
I have symmetric 1Gbit Fios, so I never have any issues with streaming. And some stream 4k videos, I've heard about 90GB 3D 4k files, encrypted, streaming smoothly, without any hiccups. I think both Plexdrive and Rclone have decent buffering logic built in.
@stacksofplates said in pi-hole: Group Management:
I just use CloudFlare for families. If I need to, I can change DNS on whatever to view something.
That only blocks malware and porn if you choose to. What about ads, marketing crap, tracking, etc.?
@wirestyle22 said in Tomcat with an NGINX Reverse Proxy and Self-signed SSL Certificate:
@scottalanmiller said in Tomcat with an NGINX Reverse Proxy and Self-signed SSL Certificate:
Start with netstat. Is nginx listening?
netstat -tulpnActive Internet connections (only servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 26420/nginx: master tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 913/sshd tcp6 0 0 :::8443 :::* LISTEN 25783/java tcp6 0 0 127.0.0.1:8005 :::* LISTEN 25783/java tcp6 0 0 :::8009 :::* LISTEN 25783/java tcp6 0 0 :::80 :::* LISTEN 26420/nginx: master tcp6 0 0 :::8080 :::* LISTEN 25783/java tcp6 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN 913/sshd udp 0 0 127.0.0.1:323 0.0.0.0:* 866/chronyd udp6 0 0 ::1:323 :::* 866/chronyd
Looks like Nginx is not listening on port 443. Did you restart the service after config change?
@gjacobse said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:
@gjacobse said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:
@marcinozga said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:
@gjacobse said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:
@jmoore said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:
@gjacobse said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:
@jmoore said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:
@jmoore said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:
One thing I found about portable apps is occasionally a smarter user will install these. Yeah, it gets around our permissions in Ad because they do not modify the registry. so I do not like them for that reason. I can't have users installing whatever they want.
Something else you can do to make chocolatey easier to install in multiple places is use an xml file with the apps you want for yourself or for departments. I made one for myself but I really don't use it, however I have one for a few different departments here because they some specific things and its hard to remember the install names on each. So I just carry them around on a flash drive.
I'm curious on how you set this up,.. I know I have just been using a simple batch file once the core is installed.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <packages> <package id="googlechrome" /> <package id="firefoxesr" /> <package id="flashplayerplugin" /> <package id="adobereader" /> <package id="jre8" /> <package id="7zip.install" /> <package id="vlc" /> <package id="powershell" /> <package id="silverlight" /> <package id="quicktime" /> <package id="irfanview" /> <package id="treesizefree" /> <package id="windirstat" /> <package id="crystaldiskinfo" /> </packages> </xml>this file is called staff.config
Then i just use:choco install d:\packages.config –yI'll have to give that a try on my next build. neat way to address the install.
Why not utilize proper configuration management tool for that? Ansible for example works very well with Chocolatey. The above approach might sound cool, but to me it's more of a stone age way.
Ansible - I've heard of it,.. likely read a little about it,.. but in my State Gov environment - not likely permitted. PS - yes.
that said, this thread is more of a personal nature, could I learn Ansible... maybe. It becomes a point of how many hours in the day are there to do yet one more thing. I just don't have the time - not to mention - I've never gotten into some of the more serious scripting - especially PS.
Oh - and there is the - I'm only dealing with my computers,.. so is Ansible really worth it? Do I know what's involved in getting Ansible running - no - but I can read. And I likely will do some. But if it needs a server - then no. it's is definitely not worth it for me personally.
Yes, it is worth learning even just to manage single computer. Say you pc dies, once you reload OS, you'll most likely spend hours installing software and configuring it to your liking. Ansible will allow you to fire up one command, and when it's done, your pc will be where you want it to be.
Since it's a church, I'm guessing there's zero budget to hire professional. Wix or similar builders will probably be best for her.
@DustinB3403 said in Intel Chipset SATA RAID Controller:
Well there is EventID 41, but absolutely no details in the log (so meh useless that is).
Event 41 tells you that last shutdown was unexpected, so no scheduled tasks, maintenance, or the likes. Either power loss, some hardware fault, someone pressed reset button, etc.
@AdamF said in Opinions: Ansible vs. SaltStack:
@scottalanmiller said in Opinions: Ansible vs. SaltStack:
@AdamF said in Opinions: Ansible vs. SaltStack:
What's the current opinion on agent vs agentless?
Depends. Are you LAN-based, then agentless is nice. Pretty much anything else, agents are essentially the only option.
Can you further clarify this statement? Why are agents the only option in a lanless (distributed) environment?
Agentless is push model. How do you plan on pushing desired state to clients that have unpredictable connections? Agents can pull, regardless of where the endpoints are.
@Dashrender said in Microsoft Edge for Linux:
@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft Edge for Linux:
@JaredBusch said in Microsoft Edge for Linux:
@DustinB3403 said in Microsoft Edge for Linux:
Or you know, just install google chrome with
yum install google-chromelol. . .yeah, no.
Chredge is way better than Chrome any day of the week.
In what way?
Hopefully all the chromium stuff, and none of the google tracking crap! but likely MS tracking crap instead.
That's why Brave is the best choice if you want chromium based browser.
https://github.com/HaveAGitGat/Tdarr - this will transcode your entire library.
Yes, but word of caution. If you get certs from multiple different providers, don't forget to add records for all of them. Otherwise getting certs will fail, and it's almost impossible to troubleshoot.
@hobbit666 said in Influxdb 2 - SSL:
@scottalanmiller said in Influxdb 2 - SSL:
su -c
Me being a linux newbie
where do i put that?
On the same line as the command you're running, before it. So su -c command
But I think you're approaching this from wrong angle. Why don't you put reverse proxy in front of your services, like Nginx, Traefik, or Caddy and handle SSL certs there, and leave services as they are.
I disassemble the drive, use electromagnets and blowtorch on platters, once they cool off, I give them to employees to use as coasters. 2.5" drives are crushed in a vise. I haven't had to destroy and SSDs yet, but vise would probably do the trick. CNC mill is always an option too.
I don't bother with wiping spinning rust, when I have to destroy them, they either broke or are old and being replaced with SSDs. Physical destruction is much more fun, and saves so much time.
I checked few power supplies in office pcs, every single one accepts 100-240VAC 50-60Hz input. So they will work anywhere. I haven't seen one in years that would be limited to 110 or 230 (or others) only.
This is for home use, for homelab at best. I considered buying one of these few months ago, when I couldn't get ipmi video redirection to work on my home server, because f....ing Java, and I didn't have monitor. That's about the only use case for it.
@DustinB3403 said in Raspberry Pi-based KVM over IP:
@hobbit666 if the host isn't responding to TCP/IP how is this IP based KVM working with the host?
It doesn't. It connects to video output, and probably usb for mouse and keyboard. Just like any other KVM. IP part is to connect to KVM device, not the host. See this video how it's wired. No network involved.
@jaredbusch usually upgrades are smooth. On occasion I had to drop to shell and do upgrade there because web interface seemed stuck.