Plex + Amazon Unlimited Storage Cloud = FAIL

General Discussions
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I dont even know why Plex would want to partner up with amazons unlimited cloud storage… its so bogus… The upload speeds are atrocious!!! Glad i am on the amazon 3 month trial, i would not even pay $30 for a year… Please contact amazon and convince them to FIX THIS!!! this is such a great offer but amazon f-ed it up with the uploading speeds

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What tools are you using to upload?
What part of the world are you in?

In my usage uploading to ACD will saturate my bandwidth if I let it.

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There are plenty of people who do not have atrocious speeds. On my old VPS I would get upwards of 12MB/s (megabytes) which was just about maxing out the speeds on there. It’s more likely due to either your location or ISP connection. Your assumption is that your experience is everyone’s experience, and certainly some other have speed issues, but the other thread here discussing upload speeds shows that it’s not everyones experience.

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And for someone who wants to try out plex without requiring their own hardware, it makes a ton of sense. It’s even interesting for someone like me (with 8+TB of content) if they have on the fly transcoding. Now, if Plex would support my DS916+ with hardware transcoding, then I’m less interested in a cloud solution :slight_smile:

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I get between 60MB/s and 117MB/s(that’s a capital B) uploading to ACD using encrypted rclone from my 1Gb/s OVH France server. Those are legit numbers. I’ve moved TBs in the last few days. I think its your provider.

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I live in Los Angeles and I was able to max out a my 50 Mbps connection. I have seen others transfer faster than that. I did this with rclone, not the ACD upload tool.

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Personally, I only get 5 Mbps from my provider. It’s damn slow and tedious. However, once it’s there, it’s done. Not like I can’t watch this stuff with my current local server.

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yah because plex will look at the example of one cry baby. and say oh this must be everyone’s experience.

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I was getting 80 MB/s up the other day when uploading my library. Today its a little slower, but i expect its being hammered with uploads from other guys on the beta.

10

I went with this fully expecting it will take me a full year to finish uploading my stuff. It’s still worth every penny knowing that one year from now, the 3 years I spent converting will not be lost.

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I bounce between 160-320 mbps upload to ACD without issue. I’ve found that the Amazon branded apps are horrible. Switching to rclone easily doubled my upload speeds.

Current rclone upload looks like this:
2016/09/29 15:28:19 Transferred: 334.480 GBytes (19.888 MBytes/s) Errors: 0 Checks: 839 Transferred: 292 Elapsed time: 4h47m1.4s

Edit (updated):
`2016/10/02 10:15:01
Transferred: 1930.226 GBytes (40.668 MBytes/s)
Errors: 0
Checks: 3382
Transferred: 1697
Elapsed time: 13h30m1.5s
Transferring:

  •                  XXXXXX (2015)/XXXX.mkv: 57% done. avg: 16136.4, cur: 22919.9 kByte/s. ETA: 5m41s

  •                XXXXXX (2012)/XXXXXXX.avi: 100% done. avg: 4952.0, cur:  236.5 kByte/s. ETA: 0s

  •      XXXXXXXXXX (1973)/XXXXXXXXXX.mkv: 86% done. avg: 20355.5, cur: 22772.4 kByte/s. ETA: 2m26s

  •      XXXXXXXXXXX (1989)/XXXXXXXXXXX.mkv: 34% done. avg: 19332.7, cur: 17449.9 kByte/s. ETA: 17m16s`
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I have hideously slow upload speed to Amazon but it is my ISP that is to blame not Amazon. I have some stuff uploaded for testing and the uploads are continuing but it is going to take a LONG time to get my entire library uploaded.

I do not know if I will actually use Plex Cloud in the long run BUT $60.00/year for a backup is worth it.

I intend to upload in controlled sections and once a section is complete I will be able to turn off the DrivePool duplication for that section. This means that it will be a LONG time before I need to buy new storage for my pool and I will not loose redundancy much at all. The only real drawback of this is that if I loose a drive in my current setup I do not have any down time but should I loose a non-duplicated drive in my pool using the cloud backup I will loose access to the files until I can download them from Amazon.

I am still evaluating the potential pros and cons of this move but I am leaning toward using Amazon in the manner I stated. But I will say that I really like the no down time situation I have now and I need to further evaluate the idea of Amazon’s cloud at $60.00 a year.

BTW: Amazon’s apps are good enough for me because they are perfectly able to max out my hideously slow upload.