Pulsed Media Dragon-R

The Dragon-R line is Pulsed Media's highest-tier shared seedbox product. Each Dragon-R server is a virtual machine on an AMD EPYC host with 128-256 GB of ECC RAM and a 20 Gbps uplink shared by every user on that host, and uses RAID10 storage, which combines the striping performance of RAID0 with the mirroring redundancy of RAID1. Every Dragon-R plan also raises the priority of all the account's support tickets, by up to +25%, and earns AI credits at multiplier 18 to 30.

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

Plans

Plan	Storage	Network	Torrent traffic	Ticket priority	AI credit multiplier	Location
Mushu	3 TB RAID10	20 Gbps (shared)	25,000 GiB	+10%	18	Finland
Toruk	5 TB RAID10	20 Gbps (shared)	50,000 GiB	+15%	22	Finland
Shenlong	10 TB RAID10	20 Gbps (shared)	75,000 GiB	+20%	26	Finland
Temeraire	16 TB RAID10	20 Gbps (shared)	Unlimited*	+25%	30	Finland

Current pricing is available at pulsedmedia.com.

Priority support and AI credits

Every support ticket from an account with an active Dragon-R plan gets extra ticket priority: +10% on Mushu, +15% on Toruk, +20% on Shenlong and +25% on Temeraire. It applies to any ticket, in any department and about any of the account's services. When an account holds more than one Dragon-R plan, the highest one counts, and a Support Boost adds its own percentage on top. Priority sets the order in which open tickets are worked on; it does not set a response time. An account whose priority bonuses were removed for misuse does not get it.

Dragon-R plans also earn AI credits from what you pay: multiplier 18 on Mushu, 22 on Toruk, 26 on Shenlong and 30 on Temeraire, where multiplier 1 is 1% of what you pay before VAT. A Temeraire at list price earns 26,997,000 credits a month, enough for about 100 million input tokens on the default model, and the account bonus can raise that up to three times.

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)	RAID10
Drive redundancy	None (V) or 1 drive (M)	None (V) or 1 drive (M)	Mirrors every drive
Users per server	Shared	Shared	Shared (median 7.5 per server, live figures)
Ticket priority included	None	None	+10% to +25%, every ticket
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.

RAID10 storage

RAID10 creates a mirrored pair for every data stripe. In a four-drive RAID10 array, each piece of data exists on two drives. If one drive fails, its mirror contains a copy, and the array continues operating without data loss.

Compared to the RAID0 used in V-series plans, RAID10 sacrifices half the raw drive capacity for redundancy. A server with 32 TB of raw disk space yields approximately 16 TB of usable storage in RAID10, versus 32 TB in RAID0. What you lose in capacity you gain in fault tolerance and consistent read performance (reads can be served from either mirror).

Compared to the RAID5 used in M-series plans, RAID10 has faster write performance because it writes mirrored copies directly instead of calculating parity. Rebuild times after a drive failure are also shorter because only the mirror of the failed drive needs to be rebuilt, not the entire array.

20 Gbps shared network

The 20 Gbps figure is the uplink of the physical host to the datacenter network. A host carries several servers, so the link is shared among all users on that host. 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.

In practice, not all users are transferring at maximum speed at the same time.

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 RAID10 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.