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‘NAS’ rated drives were never really a thing until a few years ago when the marketing gurus decided they can gleam more money from users by segmenting the hard drive market you can use regular consumer grade hard drives no problem, and given the cost difference is quite significant it’s worth it

You want to use a different board and ram, a basic workstation board and ECC ram is the go, far better reliability and less chance of data corruption The i3 supports ECC so its only the board and ram.

If it was me i would keep a local copy of the files in a redundant storage (hdd based software raid + secondary backup offsite) then keep a cold copy in AWS Glacier storage as a worse case solution. 4k should be enough for a redundant 40tb solution with the remaining budget will get you 30tb of glacier storage for at least a year.

You just need to make sure it confirms to the 802 af standard and the AC pro/Lite/LR you purchase is the updated version that supports 802 af. The older unifi AP's only supported the 24v passive POE which outside of unifis only switch range wasnt really supported at all.

But many of the lower end NAS units lack the processing power to transcode full remux or UHD content in a single stream, let alone multiple.

Whats ironic that 40gb QSFP gear is cheaper then SFP+ and 10G Base T gear because less people know about it and its not as widespread.

The Topology of my home currently. Ubiquiti Unifi USG Pro 4 Ubiquiti Unifi US24 switch Ubiquiti Unifi US-16-150w POE switch Unifi Cloud Key Unifi UAP AC Lite x2 Unifi UAP AC Pro

Sounds more like routing overload rather then bandwidth limitations. And with the nas unless its something fairly high end with multiple disks going to 10gb wont do squat. Just so everyone has the same info, what networking gear are you running right now (model numbers etc) that will give people an idea of what your doing and on what gear your attempting it on.

Not really, there is a fairly substantial performance increase. 6 to the 8 for example, other then the removal of the headphone jack, its primarily performance updates (along with improvements and implementation of 3D touch, camera and the IP67 rating) they are faily similar. Incremental updates, no different to top end GPU's.

And so does a phone, only need to see just how many people are still rocking the 6 and 6s (which are 2 and 3 years old) and given the X is a pretty big leap in terms of design (whole front is a screen and removal of touch ID being the main things) its something that will be well supported and owned by the masses in the next 2-3 years

In the same way i feel bad for people spending 1k on Titan XP's. Like most things its use case vs money outlay vs personal choice. I spend more time out and about and using my phone then i do my desktop PC so only makes sense to spend my extra cash on something i use more (and holds its resale quite well) And besides, at 1879aud for the 256gb isnt much money when you factor it over 2 years. I spend more on hookers per month.

Plex has the ability to transcode media to allow playback on a vast array of devices (that have the app) it basically converts the media from its standard format/container to one that is capable on the device you are watching it on (ie such as a smart tv or ios device) This ability requires a resonable amount of cpu processing power, and the more streams you have going (ie the amount of people watching content off the server at the same time) the more cpu power you will require.

Anything 2RU isnt going to be quiet due to the fans being ultizied in that space. All depends on what exactly you want to run off it, if its just plex etc then any 5th gen i3 onwards would be suitable or if you plan to be transcoding multiple streams you can upgrade to an e3 xeon. So would look something like this Intel i3/Xeon e3 1230v6 Intel S1200 Board 16gb ECC DDR4 Ram Supermicro SC829 Huge fan of the supermicro chassis as they are incredibly robust and suprisingly decently priced 2nd hand, and they come with a redundant PSU

As above, stick with intel, the killer NICs are pieces of junk. I used to have a 1535 in my Alienware 13 R2 but ditched it for a 8260 because of stability issues.