Comment by root_axis

1 day ago

You spent 50k for plex hosting? Why so expensive?

Half a petabyte of RAID6 is the biggest line item, then the redundant 40gb networking and compute follow closely. I have a lot… too much even?

  • does one really need 40gb networking to stream bluerays?

    • I am (clearly) not as far down the rabbithole as the commenter you're replying to, but almost certainly not. Streaming 4k blueray is on the order or ~100Mb/s, which means on a LAN bog-standard gigabit ethernet and associated networking hardware would be more than sufficient.

      This is taking a hobby to its extremes, in much the same way that a $5k boat and $500k boat let you catch the same fish.

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