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A year and a half ago I could have named a bunch, used them for over a decade (but of course domains would frequently change). But since switching to my own plex server + torrent, I’ve never looked back. It gives you all the meta data, trailers, rating and recommendations which you’d expect from paid streaming services, even features like skip intro/credits and keeping track of your progress (even mid episode).
I know, it’s not what you’re asking for, but someone had to bring it up.
The reasoning is that drives are produced and shipped in batches and if you order multiple at onces there is a higher chance you’ll get drives from the same batch. If that batch had some fault during production or it was damaged during shipping, all your drives might be affected.
I don’t have a source, but it’s something multiple expirenced people have mentioned to me.
My first question is about different drives. Could I purchase two different brand drives and use them with btrfs? (I assume yes)
You can.
2nd question: how does the replacement process go? Like if drive A died, so I remove it, and put a brand new replacement in. What do I have to do with btrfs to get the raid 1 back going? Any links or guides would be amazing.
Depends on what NAS/Software you have. If your NAS supports hot-swaps you can just pull out the defective drive and plug in another. Otherwise you’ll have to shut it down, swap the drive and turn it back on.
If you have already have the spare drive ready and you have slots availible, you can run a “hot spare”. This way you can even start the raid rebuild if you’re not physically near your NAS (like when a drive fails while you’re on holiday or sm).
If you’re fine with a terrible cam-rip and I guess the original audio, I think I just found it on youtube:
You can try adding more trackers. I use this list:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ngosang/trackerslist/master/trackers_all.txt
This heavily depends on where you live and how your local jurisdiction deals with piracy.
What’s the worst that can happen if I don’t use a VPN while pirating?
For example, torrenting, especially seeding, has a good chance of getting you fined in Germany.
Are free tier VPNs (like Proton VPN) good enough?
Usually not or they are so limited that they are only viable for very small scale piracy.
I don’t want to pay much or anything for a VPN, is a way I can get a good free one, or set one myself somehow (I have experience with selfhosting) ?
If you run a server at home it’s still using your public IP, so a personal VPN (you connecting to your own server) really doesn’t help.
If not, which cheap one do you recommend?
Most VPNs are pretty cheap on monthly basis if you sign up for a couple of years. I’m currently using NordVPN (which is like $3 a month). But If I’d have to pick a new provider at this time I’d go with Mullvad.
Synology has it’s own version of raid5 that can handle your specific disk configuration without any modification:
Not sure if similar things are availible on other platforms.
You’re welcome, and yes, it is. I’m not trying to be smug but thinking about it, this is just such a small obscure show, I thought it was silly to even bring it up. I didn’t even hate on Mel B when I watched this originally. But when I found the video it was just so funny. Then, 8 years later or so, I get back into piracy and selfhosting and I download the show again and immediately though of this edit. And it was still so funny.
Now, almost 10 years later when I was asked for “funny edits” I had to bring it up. And now looking at it again, it’s so still funny.
Not one I’ve encountered, but actively looked for.
There is a british quiz show called “The big fat Quiz of the <year/decade/other topic>” which always features a spread of panelist, mostly comedians but sometimes just random celebrities. In one of the episodes Mel B from the spice girls was on and her performances was generally regarded as terrible. So some dude edited her out of the show. But he didn’t just cut all the scenes where she was in, no. He literally edited her out of all the frames where she’s in when someone else is talking. It’s just brilliant and hilarious that someone went through this effort.
I downloaded that version and put it as the episode on my plex server.
After I had two WD drives fail in my old NAS so I switched to all Seagate on my next build. Currently running 9x 20TB Exos X20, though for only about a year now, so no issues should be expected, yet.
I think the most important thing is that you pick a drive that is meant for NAS/server use (so rated for running 24/7). And having manufacturere warrenty is also nice. My Seagate drives have 60 months (which is considerably more then the 36 months that my WD drives had).