No reason to transcode if you have the bandwidth I’ve found, just allow / force direct play / direct stream on all clients

Also I run RAID 1 USB HDDs and honestly they do fine with up to a few people at a time streaming

This is the way, grab the freeleeches and seed. Back when I was building ratio I would do this on a Seedbox, now a days I do it myself as my bandwidth has greatly improved

I chuckled…