@drinehart said:
They only promised it was released to a small beta group and that it was coming soon. They did not say to go out and grab a trial Amazon cloud account and spend days uploading a 20TB library in hopes of getting accepted into the beta program. They also did not say get a plexpass and you will get invited. It is unfortunate some people have read that into it, but it is simply not true. I suspect most people should not even be considering this yet. New features are often somewhat buggy and I would steer very clear of this until it is thoroughly tested. But that is just me. I remember what it was like to be wide-eyed and whatnot…but those years are past :). Good luck with it, either way!
Spot on.
I’m on the 90 day trial. Regardless of if the invite comes before the 90 days are up I will renew with Amazon. I have uploaded about 8TB of my 50TB of media. As far as I’m concerned that’s just a pre-empt for when the invite comes. The 8Tb uploaded so far is as far as I’m concerned simply an extra layer of redundancy for my media. If the invite comes next week/month/year isn’t something I’m gonna cry over.
what storage does it use? s3? 50TB at S3 standard pricing would be 1445$ a month…hopefully that’s not what you’re using on AWS Thanks as I’m genuinely curious what backing storage the plex cloud service is using.
What lol? I’m using Amazon Cloud Drive the same as Plex Cloud uses.
I have bought ExpanDrive myself but it is buggy on the Mac (don’t know about Windows), though I’m using odrive to sync my media library over and keep it in sync. When/If I get accepted for a beta of Plex Cloud I’ll probably change my setup a bit. If I had a faster machine I would probably give it a shot to do a mounted volume based in ACD, but my machine isn’t very fast and doesn’t have lot of RAM, so I’m concerned it wouldn’t be effective.
Oh well, having a full media library backup in ACD isn’t a bad idea even if I don’t get into the beta for Plex Cloud.
@drinehart said:
They only promised it was released to a small beta group and that it was coming soon. They did not say to go out and grab a trial Amazon cloud account and spend days uploading a 20TB library in hopes of getting accepted into the beta program. They also did not say get a plexpass and you will get invited. It is unfortunate some people have read that into it, but it is simply not true. I suspect most people should not even be considering this yet. New features are often somewhat buggy and I would steer very clear of this until it is thoroughly tested. But that is just me. I remember what it was like to be wide-eyed and whatnot…but those years are past :). Good luck with it, either way!
Spot on.
I’m on the 90 day trial. Regardless of if the invite comes before the 90 days are up I will renew with Amazon. I have uploaded about 8TB of my 50TB of media. As far as I’m concerned that’s just a pre-empt for when the invite comes. The 8Tb uploaded so far is as far as I’m concerned simply an extra layer of redundancy for my media. If the invite comes next week/month/year isn’t something I’m gonna cry over.
what storage does it use? s3? 50TB at S3 standard pricing would be 1445$ a month…hopefully that’s not what you’re using on AWS Thanks as I’m genuinely curious what backing storage the plex cloud service is using.
In theory it will start on demand instances for the media server to handle transcoding, from what I’ve seen so far though the library scanning is stupidly slow, as in days for a hundred videos slow. The transcoding is bugged, by bugged, I mean it tries to transcode everything, even if you are streaming in original format/direct play.
Probably way more demanding then amazon thought, which may also put a hold on invites until the transcoding issues are fixed at the very least.
I know I signed up the day the invites were available, and I got Amazon Cloud later that day, with my mediocre connection it took me until last week to get the 700GB of videos uploaded that I had currently. Saving me a bit of HDD space, but the latency added via my current method (mounted network drive) causes constant messages about slow computer/stream rate.
In the meantime I will keep impatiently waiting for my invite so I can enjoy my videos at work as well as at home.
Thanks as I’m genuinely curious what backing storage the plex cloud service is using.
