PMSeedbox: Dragon-R

The Dragon-R line is Pulsed Media's highest-tier shared seedbox product. Each Dragon-R server runs on AMD EPYC hardware with 128-256 GB of ECC RAM, connects at 20 Gbps (shared among approximately 26 users), and uses RAID5 storage, which stripes data across drives with distributed parity for single-drive fault tolerance.

The plans are named after fictional dragons: Mushu, Toruk, Shenlong, and Temeraire.

Plans

Plan	Storage	Network	Torrent traffic	Location
Mushu	3 TB RAID5	20 Gbps (shared)	25,000 GiB	Finland
Toruk	5 TB RAID5	20 Gbps (shared)	50,000 GiB	Finland
Shenlong	10 TB RAID5	20 Gbps (shared)	75,000 GiB	Finland
Temeraire	16 TB RAID5	20 Gbps (shared)	Unlimited*	Finland

Current pricing is available at pulsedmedia.com.

How Dragon-R compares to other PM plans

	V1000 / M1000	V10G / M10G	Dragon-R
Network	1 Gbps	10 Gbps	20 Gbps (shared)
RAID	RAID0 (V) or RAID5 (M)	RAID0 (V) or RAID5 (M)	RAID5
Drive redundancy	None (V) or 1 drive (M)	None (V) or 1 drive (M)	1 drive (parity)
Users per server	Shared	Shared	Shared (~26 users)
Software	PMSS	PMSS	PMSS
Torrent clients	rTorrent, qBittorrent, Deluge	rTorrent, qBittorrent, Deluge	rTorrent, qBittorrent, Deluge

All plans run the same PM Software Stack, use the same web interface, and support the same torrent clients. The differences are in network speed, RAID level, and storage capacity.

RAID5 storage

RAID5 stripes data across all drives with distributed parity. One drive's worth of capacity is used for parity data, and the remaining capacity is usable storage. If any single drive fails, the array continues operating in degraded mode while the failed drive is replaced and rebuilt from parity.

Compared to the RAID0 used in V-series plans, RAID5 sacrifices one drive's worth of capacity for redundancy. In a four-drive array with 4 TB drives, RAID0 yields 16 TB usable while RAID5 yields 12 TB. What you lose in capacity you gain in fault tolerance — your data survives a drive failure instead of being lost entirely.

Dragon-R uses the same RAID level as M-series plans. The difference is in the network speed (20 Gbps vs 1 or 10 Gbps) and the EPYC hardware platform, which provides more CPU cores and RAM per user for handling high-throughput workloads.

20 Gbps shared network

The 20 Gbps figure is the server's uplink to the datacenter network, shared among all users on the server. Under normal conditions, each user has access to a large share of this bandwidth. During peak usage, when many users are actively seeding or downloading, the 20 Gbps pool is divided across active connections.

This is still significantly more bandwidth per user than a 1 Gbps plan. Even split 26 ways evenly (worst case, all users maxing out simultaneously), each user would have roughly 770 Mbps, which is above what a 1 Gbps plan can provide at full allocation. In practice, not all users are transferring at maximum speed at the same time, so available bandwidth per user is typically much higher.

For private tracker racing, the 20 Gbps uplink provides a large seeding capacity during the critical first minutes after a torrent is posted.

Who Dragon-R is for

Dragon-R fits users who want more network headroom than 10Gbps plans provide, combined with the peace of mind of RAID5 redundancy. Typical use cases:

Private tracker users who race large content (season packs, 4K remuxes) and want maximum seeding bandwidth
Users with large media libraries who want both speed and drive redundancy
Users who transfer large amounts of data between the seedbox and home or cloud storage

If you do not need the 20 Gbps headroom, the V10G and M10G plans offer 10 Gbps at a lower price point. If redundancy is not important and you want maximum storage per euro, V-series RAID0 plans give the most space.

Plans

How Dragon-R compares to other PM plans

RAID5 storage

20 Gbps shared network

Who Dragon-R is for

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