I interpreted their question differently. It sounds like they’re taking about Radarr having to download a movie before they can watch it, whereas streaming services have a “complete” (compared to a new *arr setup) library available to stream instantly.

Some bittorrent clients can start playing a video before it’s done downloading, and prioritize the torrent chunks in the right order so there aren’t any interruptions as long as there are seeders and you have enough bandwidth. But I don’t think plex or jellyfin can do it, and I don’t know of any alternatives that can.

Words mean whatever society agrees they mean. Sometimes the subtext is more important than the literal definition.

Ad hominem attacks don’t help your case.

I think you’re taking the phrase more literally than most people would.

Yeah, he literally changed his last name to “dotcom.”

Most people are recommending that you bury a conduit, and it’s good advice, but also be aware that direct-bury ethernet cable is available that can be used without conduit.

12gbps could be useful if you use port expanders to put dozens of drives on the same port, but without a port expander you’re right you wouldn’t saturate the 6gbps channel.

LSI cards are generally easy to switch to IT mode. You should be able to find a guide on servethehome.com for your model.

This, but if you already have a SAS card in RAID mode you might be able to flash IT (AKA HBA) mode firmware instead of buying a new card.

Also, SAS cables fit SATA drives, but not vice versa. So no need to buy new cables.

I’m disappointed by the lack of Whose Line Is It Anyway references in this thread :(

“everything’s made up and the points don’t matter”

White label isn’t the same as drop shipped. Sometimes white label products are drop shipped, but not always. And not everything that’s drop shipped is white label.

You literally can’t know if what you’re buying is original or not anymore.

You literally can. Lots of white label products either aren’t covered by a patent/copyright, or were designed/licensed by a Chinese company. Chinese companies do design their own products.

I’m pretty sure most of the stuff on Amazon is from white-label manufactures, not counterfeit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-label_product

Did you know you can be exposed to other cultures without leaving the country? You did a good job of pointing out why travel alone doesn’t make people more open minded, but you didn’t touch on the opportunities Americans have to connect with other cultures without leaving their own country.

The principal doesn’t change, but the magnitude of the effect does.

Some fan designs handle restrictions much better than others. PC fans will drop to basically zero airflow with a moderate restriction, while centrifugal fans will still move a decent amount of air with that same restriction.

Probably because people are lazy and won’t clean the filters, and after a few months they wouldn’t have any airflow. Without the filter you still get dust, hair, etc, but it takes longer to get to the point where the computer is overheating for those people who do zero maintenance.

It’s kind of like how some gas lawn mowers are being sold with “lifetime” oil that doesn’t need to be changed. It’s not better, unless you’re the kind of person who wouldn’t do any maintenance anyway.

They mean the fan is rated for that amount of restriction, and will still move a decent cfm of air. Regular pc fans will drop cfm very quickly when there’s any restriction.

Yes.

You aren’t going to find that in every industry/career. Not sure what other advice I can give, but if I was in that situation I’d be looking for a career/field that uses a similar set of skills but has a better culture.

Besides RAM, what resources do you think you’re saving? Not CPU cycles or IO ops, because you’re processing the same amount of DB queries either way. Not power consumption, since that isn’t affected by RAM utilization. Maybe disc space? But that’s even cheaper than RAM.

Or more importantly: the extent to which you can self-host out of sheer luck and ignorance like you suggest is very limited. If you don’t want to engage with a minimum amount of configuration, you might bump into security issues (a much broader and complex subject) long before any of the above has a material impact.

You’re mischaracterizing what I said. My point is that running multiple DB processes on a server isn’t going to have a significant impact on system load, if all other factor are kept constant.

You seem to be obsessed with optimising one resource at the expense of others. Time is a limited resource, and even if it only takes 5 minutes to configure all of your containers to share a single db backend (it will take longer than that even if you just have 2), you’re only going to save a few MB of RAM. And since RAM costs roughly $2.5/GB (0.25 cents/MB) your time would have to be worth very little for this to be worthwhile.

On the other hand, if you’re doing it to learn more about computers then it might be worthwhile. This is a community of hobbiests, after all…