SaltyCapn

Hello everyone, Currently I have a 12tb dive failing and thanks to the world these suckers are like $400+. It is not ideal to replace this drive. So I'm debating the next best options I have. With my license I can have up to 3 more drives. All my other drives are 8tb and a 12tb parity. I'm considering going the route of a jbod due my case not support that many additional drives. I've been doing some research on the LSI and wanted to see if anyone else has found the secret sauce for this. I know the jbod is going to gauge me alittle as well as a new LSI. But over time I think this would be a better fit anyways because I can use more drives and not worry so much about the case my system is in. Scaleability will also be nice because of this as my next big upgrade is going to be moving this all from a desktop case to a servercase and mounting it on a rack. The jbods will be easy enough to find to accomidate this but the real pressure point right now for me is which LSI do I even go with. Does anyone have a current unraid and jbod setup that I could copy your homework and change the name.

Not sure if it's been answered before. But I noticed the watch folder and output folder. Do these need to be different because I have a ton of media and would like to keep it in the same location. For example my media resides in /media/Movies and /media/Tv Shows. If I point the watch folder and output folder to media will it put the content back into its corresponding folders or will it just dump it out at the top level in /media? I did not see any info on this in the GitHub unless I overlooked it.

I'm not sure if this is the right place for this post but here it goes. I download movies and transcode all movies into mp4 1080p. Sadly I'm doing this with my cpu but i keep tabs on it daily. I would like to know if there is an app that would show me a graph of video types. For example I want to know if i'm making a dent in my transcodes. Right now i just search for mkv files and see how many items i have and base my guesses off of that. But I'd like a quick easy way to see how many videos are say 1080p, or 2k, and what file formats they are. I'd just like a way to monitor how my transcodes are going.