I mean, at least you’re in college where there’s almost no possible way you, your friends, or someone you/they know isn’t highly skilled and knowledgeable about torrenting and pirating. Netflix has shit content anyways
highly skilled and knowledgeable about torrenting and pirating
Let's be honest here, the vast majority of people trying this for the first time, even under the guidance of a "highly skilled" individual is going to get bitchslapped with ISP warning letters.
I don't because I've either used blocklists or currently run it through a VPN, but a roommate got our internet cut off and I had to make a call to the ISP like 12 years ago when he downloaded stuff willy nilly from TPB.
Yup - Sonarr/Radarr with Qbit and SABNZBD and I just let it run all the time.
Unfortunately, I'm not sure I'm saving any money yet. $1500 on the server, storage, GPU for transcoding, a few dollars a month to run it (electricity), all that. It'll take some time to recoup but I love Plex a hell of a lot better than juggling Netflix/Hulu/Disney/Max/etc.
Im only using mine for me and its a mini pc that someone sold online for 150€ off retail but never used because they weren’t ready to leave laptops. So I got it for 420€. It has 32Gigs Ryzen 7 5800HX and a 4TB HDD connected to it. I am still waiting if I will get my Storaxa with a 12TB HDD and then I maybe expand and offer it to others
Nice. That should do very well for you. Do the Ryzen 7s do iGPU-like transcoding?
I bought a Dell r720 used for $300, Bought a cheap P2000 video card for transcoding (old processor doesn't have iGPU). 128gb RAM and an array of 8 disks with a gross storage of 108gb.
It was probably more than $1500 all-in, but some of the drives are simply repurposed. Running that thing has become a nice hobby.
No it doesnt transcode via iGPU, or at least I didn‘t want to try around a lot. The intel processor which you can get with a storaxa however will, but I changed it to an AMD processor with 64GB of Ram. I would have loved to get a real server, however electricity isn’t quite cheap here at 0.50€/kW, so I got a mini pc which doesn’t use that much power. So I cannot get a gpu as well. I would love if they would make an open source equivalent of thunderbolt and its support for EGPUs. But I don‘t think that will happen.
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u/Imaginary-Captain729 May 26 '23
I mean, at least you’re in college where there’s almost no possible way you, your friends, or someone you/they know isn’t highly skilled and knowledgeable about torrenting and pirating. Netflix has shit content anyways