Moving away from Plex....

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rp1790

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#2918281 25-May-2022 10:15

Senecio:

Since then I've gone on to use some of the features of a Plex pass (downloading movies and TV shows from my library to an iPad to watch off line while camping).

All up I'm happy that I've contributed to the service. I may or may not use many more features of the Plex pass but i'm OK with that.

+1 for this, I bought a Plex Pass several years ago and considered it payment and support for something I and my family use every day. I do sometimes use Pass features like downloading onto an iPad, also for when camping.

qwertee

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#2918283 25-May-2022 10:24

Senecio:

I would consider myself to be like yourself, a fairly simple user. I used Plex free for years and had never came across a situation where I needed a Plex pass. The last time the Lifetime offer came up I decided to buy in, not because there was functionality I was missing out on but just because I wanted to support a great piece of software that I've been using for many years.

Since then I've gone on to use some of the features of a Plex pass (downloading movies and TV shows from my library to an iPad to watch off line while camping).

All up I'm happy that I've contributed to the service. I may or may not use many more features of the Plex pass but i'm OK with that.

@Senecio Thanks
I will perhaps contribute to this later as its really darn good as you have said.
Occasionally I watch the Euro News and the jazz channel

tanivula

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#2918314 25-May-2022 12:15

The offline sync and DVR recordings is my fav. As well as the skip intros (on TV series vids) and the ability to mark for skip or delete commercials in DVR recordings.

Firenyth

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#2918401 25-May-2022 14:16

I had a situation a few years ago with my plex server where a drive failed corrupting all of my media (probably for the best since it was a mess with imported data from days before plex and proper quality control) but I recommend to anyone who runs plex to setup drive redundancy you don't need to go full on raid card I myself run windows storage spaces (don't even need windows server (not that getting windows versions is very hard)). I went with the cheapest drive > redundancy option which came with a hit to read/write performance but not even noticeable with playback and sonarr/radarr dont care how long they take to move files around.

2 things I missed when rebuilding my system I didnt setup REFS as I was learning as I went and by the time I learnt about REFS I needed to reinstall a different windows version to support it, and I didnt change the cluster size of my virtual drive (created with storage spaces) so no matter how many drives I add I'm stuck with 16TB limit with the default cluster size I dont plan to hit that but I may hit it in a few years and never delete old movies / shows if I do need change I'll need to copy over all my media to a new storage space with cluster size changed (would take a couple weeks i'd guess)

I'm only mentioning this for anyone looking a rebuilding their media storage for plex

TLDR

look into drive redundancy (storage spaces)

consider REFS storage spaces

consider changing the cluster size to support more capacity

qwertee

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#2919210 26-May-2022 23:05

Bought myself a PlexPass finally for the reasons some have expressed.

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