Speeding up Emby Access

[TeamB 2438]

My combo:

StableBit DrivePool - https://stablebit.com/DrivePool
StableBit Scanner - https://stablebit.com/Scanner
SnapRAID - https://www.snapraid.it

My server OS and apps run on an SSD and I run 4 data with 1 parity disk for SnapRAID.

This combo has saved me a lot of time and frustration over the last 6 or so years, saving my ass a few times when it has identified failing disks and allows me to rebuild data from snapshots. Upgrading and replacing drives is very easy.

Edited December 5, 2020 by TeamB

[Carlo 4561]

1 hour ago, TeamB said:

My combo:

StableBit DrivePool - https://stablebit.com/DrivePool
StableBit Scanner - https://stablebit.com/Scanner
SnapRAID - https://www.snapraid.it

My server OS and apps run on an SSD and I run 4 data with 1 parity disk for SnapRAID.

This combo has saved me a lot of time and frustration over the last 6 or so years, saving my ass a few times when it has identified failing disks and allows me to rebuild data from snapshots. Upgrading and replacing drives is very.

This is my setup as well.

[cptlores 40]

This is probably the complete opposite of what the thread starter is looking for, but here goes.

It is a open secret in the home lab community that you can get ~5 year old enterprise level server equipment for next to nothing. It's no longer usable for a serious commercial operation (no longer supported, relatively low power efficiency etc), but still plenty powerful enough for small operations and home users. And because it is a niche market, the prices are ridiculously low (for server equipment). For example you will have no problem sourcing 128GB (32GBx4) of DDR3 1600/1866Mhz ECC server memory for under $250.

So my setup is basically what would have been a enterprise server from around 2014-15, minus the rack server chassis for practical reasons like more quiet cooling etc. And the price is less then a typical gaming PC setup if you exclude the storage HDD's

It has 16(32) Xeon cores, 128GB ECC memory, 10Gbe Ethernet and is running a Proxmox Virtual Environment (VM server). A VM session is then used for running OpenMediaVault with PCI pass-through directly to a 20 port LSI SAS raid controller currently having 10x IronWolf 10TB disks in RAID-6. Emby is also dockerized in a separate VM for easy maintenance and controlling resource allocations as needed since I have more then a couple of users..

Edited December 5, 2020 by cptlores

[crbdrbonline 2]

2 hours ago, cptlores said:

This is probably the complete opposite of what the thread starter is looking for, but here goes.

It is a open secret in the home lab community that you can get ~5 year old enterprise level server equipment for next to nothing. It's no longer usable for a serious commercial operation (no longer supported, relatively low power efficiency etc), but still plenty powerful enough for small operations and home users. And because it is a niche market, the prices are ridiculously low (for server equipment). For example you will have no problem sourcing 128GB (32GBx4) of DDR3 1600/1866Mhz ECC server memory for under $250.

So my setup is basically what would have been a enterprise server from around 2014-15, minus the rack server chassis for practical reasons like more quiet cooling etc. And the price is less then a typical gaming PC setup if you exclude the storage HDD's

It has 16(32) Xeon cores, 128GB ECC memory, 10Gbe Ethernet and is running a Proxmox Virtual Environment (VM server). A VM session is then used for running OpenMediaVault with PCI pass-through directly to a 20 port LSI SAS raid controller currently having 10x IronWolf 10TB disks in RAID-6. Emby is also dockerized in a separate VM for easy maintenance and controlling resource allocations as needed since I have more then a couple of users..

It certainly is a nice setup. I have everything in an 8’ rack which I will continue to use. However, my goal is to simplify. I used to enjoy tweaking and supporting it all. Now I just want it to work as simply and safely as possible.