I realize I’m 2 years late but this just popped up. I have a mini PC I got for $130 on AliExpress(N100 celeron) that has done 5 4k transcodes at once over remote connections. Hooked up a DAS and that’s that. Pulls an average of 15watts, runs 24/7/365. Auto starts after lost power. Things don’t have to be overly complicated or expensive.
I did heaps of research for my Plex server/HTPC and found the best case option to be Coolermasters 130 mini ITX case. Looks the part next to all the other home theater equipment, only a single blue power light on the front, great front to back airflow so the sides aren't too important, and has an optical drive slot. I went the shiny black pioneer blue ray drive which looks perfect for a HTPC.
Some folks ramble chaotically and make it hard to follow what they're trying to explain.. I like when people take their time explaining everything so, cheers for that!
Thank you for informing the folks out there with new Plex Content. It is an important work for the community of Plex. My Setup is specifically build for getting the most out of Plex with Hardware transcoding with the lowest power consumption. This Rig is locatetd in a Data Center. I use my RAM as a RAM-Disk, so I don't kill my SSD's through all the transcodings with needless writes. The maximum simultaneous streams in the past was 32. I haven’t ever seen more streams on my Plex Server. However, I must confess that I called all my users at the time to stream simultaneously. So I could test my server to see, if my server can handle so many streams. And yes it does ;-) . But in general it is 1-3 at the same time. But between christmas and new year, this number usually increases dramatically up to 23-25 simultaneous streams. And sometimes even higher. I have converted all my movies (mostly 1080p) to MKV, h264 and AAC, so that the CPU has as little to deal with it as possible and I so can still optimize the power consumption a bit. In my eyes, it makes no sense at all to transcode a 4K file into a lower resolution. Either you are able to play 4K natively or you don't. With my nearly 32TB I run into a big storage problem. Therefore, I’ll increase my storage pool from 48TB up to 600TB raw storage with a Storinator Q30. And don't forget buy a UPS to avoid Data corruption to your NAS during sudden Power outages. PC: CPU: 2x Intel Xeon E5-2630L v4 @1.80 GHz CPU-Cooler: 2x Silverstone Heligon HEO2 (passiv cooled) RAM: 512 GB ECC (256GB is for RAM-Disk) Mainborad: ASUS Z10PE-8D WS SSD: 2x Samsung 860 Pro 2TB GPU: PNY Quadro P5000 - 16GB (Nvidia) Fan: 3x Noctua NF-A14 PPC 2000 PWM (140 mm) Networkcard: Mellanox ConnectX-5 EN with 2 SFP+ Ports Case: Fractal Define R6 USB-C - Black Power-consumption: Consumption @ Idle: 120W Consumption @ Normal: 130-170W Consumption @ Full load: 230W (Stresstest CPU & GPU) Internet Connection: Symmetrical 10 Gbits connection on fiber NAS: Model: QNAP TS-453B HDD: 4x Seagate IronWolf 12tb @ 3.5" => 32TB usable Storage RAID: 5 UPS: (During the time I had my Plex-Server at home) - APC Smart-UPS X 1500 VA, Rack/Tower LCD, with a Networkcard. (For my Router, Firewall and Switches) holds them up over 2,5 hours. - APC Smart-UPS X 3000 VA, Rack/Tower LCD, with a Networkcard. For my Plex-Server and the NAS) holds them up over 6 hours, with the external Batterypack. - APC Smart-UPS X, 120V external Batterypack Rack/Tower. My opinion: A solid choice for a GPU that would only be used for transcoding, like in my case is a: 1. P2000 - 5 GB 2. P5000 - 16 GB 3. GV100 - 32 GB (Definitely Overkill, but if you need way more than 50+ streams at the same time... I would go for it.) This videos helped me a lot to build my Plex Server in the past. A good source of information for hardware transcoding can be found here: ruclips.net/video/drRaGAJFhEs/видео.html Plex GPU Overkill can be found here: ruclips.net/video/q7ltsWPOLkE/видео.html Plex with RAM-Disk: ruclips.net/video/BMV_eNQYJQs/видео.html ruclips.net/video/TL6IpfZtvSw/видео.html To all out there I wish good luck in building your Plex server and have fun with it.
@@overratedprogrammer It depends on how many streams should be handled simultaneously: 1-13 simultaneous streams --> CPU transcoding My choice would be an Intel i5 11500 with Quicksync enabled for transcoding. Because the energy consumption is just between 35-75 Watt. 14+ simultaneous streams --> GPU-transcoding The energy consumption is considerably higher than CPU-transcoding. GPU-transcoding is designed to handle as many streams as possible. Be aware that this case is only when you have to transcode every Movie that will be played. If there are some of them, that can be played with Direct-Play you can provide even more streams. I hope I could help you further.
If you have the hard drive space in the case, but not the motherboard connectors as is my situation... add in a raid card. It will give you way more options storage wise as well as run your storage in at least raid 5 to give you a bit of leeway if you had a hard drive failure. That way you wouldnt have to redownload all of your media all over again. 8-10TB platter drives are becoming very affordable these days. Get three of them in raid 5 and you will go to go for a long while.
I'm runnning an old 4th gen intel on unraid. it has a lot of sata ports (10, if I remember correct). I plan to upgrade soon for at 12th with integrated gpu. I have an old GPU for transcoding, but hardly use it, so it's going to go out the window soon, I believe.
What about a ryzen 5800x and a rtx 3080 instead? Is an Intel w/ quick sync better than this??? I have a ryzen 5800, 64gb ram, 10 TB HDD RAID 1, and an nvidia rtx 3080 running on windows 10. I'm having very inconsistent results with direct play and direct stream, e.g., lagging, crashing, buffering. My clients are chromecast w/ Google TV, android, and roku tv.
@@Jim22150 why would you put a power hungry video card in a plex server when an intel cpu w quicksync does the same? Cheaper to purchase and cheaper to operate. I've used roku and it worked quite well w direct play. Now use shield tv and it also works outstanding.
Wait. So my graphics card doesn’t matter at all since I have the newest intel cpu? I was wondering if the new Antill arc GPU would work better as a home theater PC instead of a 1650 super
I run Plex with remote access, with a old old old hammy-down server. I can support 2 transcodes but ive had as many as 5 concurrent streams. All on a Intel Xeon 5130 @ 2x GHz. That Load Has it Pegged at 100% but typical traffic is 1-2 streams keeps still high, but ~85%. The hardware was free so 🤷♂
If you have your internet network/router in the same room as your main movie watching tv you don't really have any issues with needing transcoding. Now days GOOGLE Chromecast TV and other streaming divices that you can connect directly with ethernet cables allow you to get full Audio/Video without transcoding anything. Full Dolby Vision/HDR 10 and Atmos
I'm good with my synology Ds720 2 bay nas with 2, 8tb hard drives 2 samsung nvme ssd cache cards with a max of upgraded 6gb of ram storage good enough for my plex server needs
I5 8400 itx build thinking about adding a p400 quadro based on Nova sprit video but never hit a bottle neck limited to 4 1080p streams. Being a truck driver I do need 1 remote stream.
I’m planning to use my old pc as plex/nas server. It’s a Phenom II x6 1090T 3.2 ghz, 8 gb ddr 3 and going to source an nvidia card that supports NVENC as my 550ti that’s in it now doesn’t support it.
Hi, what is the best hardware to build my Plex Server to 4K and hires audio, considering the clients like NVidia Shield Pro, Apple TV 4K and Chromecast 4k with Google TV. I can use a Synology DS923+ with ram upgraded or an Intel NUC with 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 4-Core (11th Gen). So to NUC option, I should be run it over windows or what is better? What should I have the best performance? Thank you
I want to get 4k HDR content to my projector via wired network plex server. Please give me some examples how to do this!!!! I don't need something that is powerful for direct play/streaming, right? Or do I?!?
Yeah being that CPU's even so called "Budget CPU's" now are so efficient and fast they can easily handle high bit rate 1080p videos and even 4k just by using the integrated GPU's. Plus with the cost of 6-core cpu's it makes it even more possible for the majority if its even necessary. I personally have a 8700k / 5700XT system w/32gigs and I use the GPU acceleration option in the PLEX options and I've never had any problem. But I also have my Google Chrome TV hardwired so 4k Direct Streams aren't ever an issue.
I have a ryzen 5800, 64gb ram, 10 TB HDD RAID 1, and an nvidia rtx 3080 running on windows 10. I'm having very inconsistent results with direct play and direct stream, e.g., lagging, crashing, buffering. My clients are chromecast w/ Google TV, android, and roku tv. I was hoping you would talk about hardware acceleration with GPU. Did you have to download any special drivers for you GPU? What are your transcoding settings?
At some point I will be doing a video on hardware transcoding. This video is just going over the basics. Consumer Nvidia GPUs are limited to 3 hardware transcodes at a time, though there is a special driver that lets it do unlimited steams. A popular GPU for transcoding among Plex server owners is the Nvidia P2000 as it does not have a transcoding limit and can handle a decent amount of concurrent transcodes. I personally don't use it as I have my system set up to use the three hardware transcodes of my GTX 1050 and if it needs more, automatically switches to software encoding on my Ryzen 1600X. I rarely have more than three steams going at once, so it's never been an issue. Intel's Quick Sync on their iGPUs does not have a transcode limit, which is why a lot of people recommend an Intel CPU. From research I've done, Software>Nvidia NVENC> Intel Quick Sync when it comes to quality. But honestly, most people will not be able to tell the difference, especially with the NVENC encoder on Nvidia 30 series GPUs. As far as the issues with Direct Play and Stream, you may want to head to a forum or Facebook group for help. There are a lot of advanced users that spend a lot of time on their servers.
My Plex servers are a i910900x 64gb of ram as I use ram for storage when transcoding with almost 60tb of storage some internal most on a nas that I connected to the Plex server over 10gb p2p connection that machine is a old dell server and a disk expander. The gpu in the Plex server is a quadro p2200
You'll definitely need to transcode. And depending on the devices in your home, you may need to transcode as well. How many streams do you have going at once? You can use Passmark scores to see what kind of CPU you need.
My media server runs Emby instead of plex. With that out of the way, mine resides in a rack mounted, 20 bay 4U server chassis. It consists of dual 12 core E5-2697 v2 cpu's, 128 gigs of ram, and a spare 8gig RX580. I don't count on my gpu for heavy transcoding since I never have many concurrent streams.
I have Plex server on my windows PC. I have an AMD Ryzen 7 2700x, 16GB ram, I have a 2TB drive for recording tv and a 6TB for other file storage. The weak part is my video card. I have an old Nvidia card I think I paid around $60 for but it's got 2gb of memory and an HDMI port. I probably should get something better but now clue what I need. I do stream out of the house sometimes but it's only me so only one stream at a time my internet is not very fast. I only get 6mbps up so I have Plex limited to 720p, 3mbps. It seems like video works ok and if tried mp3 and flac audio. Those stream ok
I've thought of that, but I have plans on adding a capture card and tuner card, which eats up both spare slots. I'm planning on getting a DAS when I eventually run out of storage.
@@LevysCustoms That's what I was going to suggest, it worked great for me. I am currently using an old Intel Xeon X3470 cpu but since I've started encoding my movies with much higher bit rates, it is really getting bogged down. I am going to be upgrading soon.
My problem is people who use my server need to transcode due to shitty internet/network environments. So I want to make sure that I CAN handle transcode if need be.. this basically means that I can't have 4k content on my server though.. (when you play a movie with different versions does it ask you which one you want every time?)
Running my server my my Nvidia shield, just for me and one tv, direct play...buuuut...it sucks. Issues every other day, from not playing 7.1 truHD AT ALL, to just not loading my library...wanting to build a server
I saw your video about hardware for plex server, very good. I would like to know what video cards you recommend for external streaming. I have a lot of 4k video. my internet is fiber 500/500 mb. thanks
AMD GPU's aren't advertised that much because most of those technologies have always been a part of its software/hardware stack and RYZEN cpu's are powerful enough without quick sync and due to having alot of L3 cache also helps alot across the board whether you're using lower end RYZEN or high end and for way less power.
I realize I’m 2 years late but this just popped up.
I have a mini PC I got for $130 on AliExpress(N100 celeron) that has done 5 4k transcodes at once over remote connections. Hooked up a DAS and that’s that. Pulls an average of 15watts, runs 24/7/365. Auto starts after lost power.
Things don’t have to be overly complicated or expensive.
Yeah but.... what if i want them to be?
I did heaps of research for my Plex server/HTPC and found the best case option to be Coolermasters 130 mini ITX case. Looks the part next to all the other home theater equipment, only a single blue power light on the front, great front to back airflow so the sides aren't too important, and has an optical drive slot. I went the shiny black pioneer blue ray drive which looks perfect for a HTPC.
Some folks ramble chaotically and make it hard to follow what they're trying to explain.. I like when people take their time explaining everything so, cheers for that!
Thank you for informing the folks out there with new Plex Content. It is an important work for the community of Plex.
My Setup is specifically build for getting the most out of Plex with Hardware transcoding with the lowest power consumption. This Rig is locatetd in a Data Center. I use my RAM as a RAM-Disk, so I don't kill my SSD's through all the transcodings with needless writes.
The maximum simultaneous streams in the past was 32.
I haven’t ever seen more streams on my Plex Server. However, I must confess that I called all my users at the time to stream simultaneously. So I could test my server to see, if my server can handle so many streams. And yes it does ;-) . But in general it is 1-3 at the same time. But between christmas and new year, this number usually increases dramatically up to 23-25 simultaneous streams. And sometimes even higher.
I have converted all my movies (mostly 1080p) to MKV, h264 and AAC, so that the CPU has as little to deal with it as possible and I so can still optimize the power consumption a bit.
In my eyes, it makes no sense at all to transcode a 4K file into a lower resolution. Either you are able to play 4K natively or you don't.
With my nearly 32TB I run into a big storage problem. Therefore, I’ll increase my storage pool from 48TB up to 600TB raw storage with a Storinator Q30.
And don't forget buy a UPS to avoid Data corruption to your NAS during sudden Power outages.
PC:
CPU: 2x Intel Xeon E5-2630L v4 @1.80 GHz
CPU-Cooler: 2x Silverstone Heligon HEO2 (passiv cooled)
RAM: 512 GB ECC (256GB is for RAM-Disk)
Mainborad: ASUS Z10PE-8D WS
SSD: 2x Samsung 860 Pro 2TB
GPU: PNY Quadro P5000 - 16GB (Nvidia)
Fan: 3x Noctua NF-A14 PPC 2000 PWM (140 mm)
Networkcard: Mellanox ConnectX-5 EN with 2 SFP+ Ports
Case: Fractal Define R6 USB-C - Black
Power-consumption:
Consumption @ Idle: 120W
Consumption @ Normal: 130-170W
Consumption @ Full load: 230W (Stresstest CPU & GPU)
Internet Connection:
Symmetrical 10 Gbits connection on fiber
NAS:
Model: QNAP TS-453B
HDD: 4x Seagate IronWolf 12tb @ 3.5" => 32TB usable Storage
RAID: 5
UPS: (During the time I had my Plex-Server at home)
- APC Smart-UPS X 1500 VA, Rack/Tower LCD, with a Networkcard. (For my Router, Firewall and Switches) holds them up over 2,5 hours.
- APC Smart-UPS X 3000 VA, Rack/Tower LCD, with a Networkcard. For my Plex-Server and the NAS) holds them up over 6 hours, with the external Batterypack.
- APC Smart-UPS X, 120V external Batterypack Rack/Tower.
My opinion:
A solid choice for a GPU that would only be used for transcoding, like in my case is a:
1. P2000 - 5 GB
2. P5000 - 16 GB
3. GV100 - 32 GB (Definitely Overkill, but if you need way more than 50+ streams at the same time... I would go for it.)
This videos helped me a lot to build my Plex Server in the past.
A good source of information for hardware transcoding can be found here:
ruclips.net/video/drRaGAJFhEs/видео.html
Plex GPU Overkill can be found here:
ruclips.net/video/q7ltsWPOLkE/видео.html
Plex with RAM-Disk:
ruclips.net/video/BMV_eNQYJQs/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/TL6IpfZtvSw/видео.html
To all out there I wish good luck in building your Plex server and have fun with it.
Thanks for the info dump. Is a cpu or gpu better for transcoding?
@@overratedprogrammer
It depends on how many streams should be handled simultaneously:
1-13 simultaneous streams --> CPU transcoding
My choice would be an Intel i5 11500 with Quicksync enabled for transcoding.
Because the energy consumption is just between 35-75 Watt.
14+ simultaneous streams --> GPU-transcoding
The energy consumption is considerably higher than CPU-transcoding.
GPU-transcoding is designed to handle as many streams as possible.
Be aware that this case is only when you have to transcode every Movie that will be played. If there are some of them, that can be played with Direct-Play you can provide even more streams. I hope I could help you further.
If you have the hard drive space in the case, but not the motherboard connectors as is my situation... add in a raid card. It will give you way more options storage wise as well as run your storage in at least raid 5 to give you a bit of leeway if you had a hard drive failure. That way you wouldnt have to redownload all of your media all over again. 8-10TB platter drives are becoming very affordable these days. Get three of them in raid 5 and you will go to go for a long while.
realisticly for most people will be 1-3 trascod at the time , you may give access to 20 people most will not open the app more than 2 times
I'm runnning an old 4th gen intel on unraid. it has a lot of sata ports (10, if I remember correct). I plan to upgrade soon for at 12th with integrated gpu. I have an old GPU for transcoding, but hardly use it, so it's going to go out the window soon, I believe.
You WANT a cpu with quicksync. Makes a huge difference
What about a ryzen 5800x and a rtx 3080 instead? Is an Intel w/ quick sync better than this???
I have a ryzen 5800, 64gb ram, 10 TB HDD RAID 1, and an nvidia rtx 3080 running on windows 10. I'm having very inconsistent results with direct play and direct stream, e.g., lagging, crashing, buffering. My clients are chromecast w/ Google TV, android, and roku tv.
@@Jim22150 why would you put a power hungry video card in a plex server when an intel cpu w quicksync does the same? Cheaper to purchase and cheaper to operate. I've used roku and it worked quite well w direct play. Now use shield tv and it also works outstanding.
great video, would be worth it if you went over plex hdr movies, hdr transcoding and hdr tonemapping but otherwise great video!
Might be late but I suggest you get a mini pcie to SATA card to add more SATA ports to your server.
Wait. So my graphics card doesn’t matter at all since I have the newest intel cpu? I was wondering if the new Antill arc GPU would work better as a home theater PC instead of a 1650 super
I run Plex with remote access, with a old old old hammy-down server. I can support 2 transcodes but ive had as many as 5 concurrent streams. All on a Intel Xeon 5130 @ 2x GHz. That Load Has it Pegged at 100% but typical traffic is 1-2 streams keeps still high, but ~85%. The hardware was free so 🤷♂
My Plex server has 125TB of storage. 12 of the drives in it are 8TB SSDs. I may need help.
Haha, it can be addictive for sure!
I really always want the best to do the job, not the least . not sure why people want to go into figuring out what can you get by with.
So in order to benefit with 4k HDR no buffering then a Threadripper PRO 7995WX seems to be a logical but overkill choice
I need to upgrade to threadripper (or epyc)... to get enough pcie connectivity for my drives :(
If you have your internet network/router in the same room as your main movie watching tv you don't really have any issues with needing transcoding. Now days GOOGLE Chromecast TV and other streaming divices that you can connect directly with ethernet cables allow you to get full Audio/Video without transcoding anything. Full Dolby Vision/HDR 10 and Atmos
I'm good with my synology Ds720 2 bay nas with 2, 8tb hard drives 2 samsung nvme ssd cache cards with a max of upgraded 6gb of ram storage good enough for my plex server needs
great video, would be worth it if you went overt plex hdr and hdr tonemapping. otherwise awesome.
I5 8400 itx build thinking about adding a p400 quadro based on Nova sprit video but never hit a bottle neck limited to 4 1080p streams. Being a truck driver I do need 1 remote stream.
I’m planning to use my old pc as plex/nas server. It’s a Phenom II x6 1090T 3.2 ghz, 8 gb ddr 3 and going to source an nvidia card that supports NVENC as my 550ti that’s in it now doesn’t support it.
Hi, what is the best hardware to build my Plex Server to 4K and hires audio, considering the clients like NVidia Shield Pro, Apple TV 4K and Chromecast 4k with Google TV.
I can use a Synology DS923+ with ram upgraded or an Intel NUC with 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 4-Core (11th Gen).
So to NUC option, I should be run it over windows or what is better?
What should I have the best performance?
Thank you
Might want to tone down your background music. A lot.
Background music is supposed to be just loud enough to cover ambient noise in the room and not interfere with the main content.
I want to get 4k HDR content to my projector via wired network plex server. Please give me some examples how to do this!!!! I don't need something that is powerful for direct play/streaming, right? Or do I?!?
Yeah being that CPU's even so called "Budget CPU's" now are so efficient and fast they can easily handle high bit rate 1080p videos and even 4k just by using the integrated GPU's. Plus with the cost of 6-core cpu's it makes it even more possible for the majority if its even necessary. I personally have a 8700k / 5700XT system w/32gigs and I use the GPU acceleration option in the PLEX options and I've never had any problem. But I also have my Google Chrome TV hardwired so 4k Direct Streams aren't ever an issue.
a budget cpu transcoding 4k... good luck w that.
I have a ryzen 5800, 64gb ram, 10 TB HDD RAID 1, and an nvidia rtx 3080 running on windows 10. I'm having very inconsistent results with direct play and direct stream, e.g., lagging, crashing, buffering. My clients are chromecast w/ Google TV, android, and roku tv.
I was hoping you would talk about hardware acceleration with GPU. Did you have to download any special drivers for you GPU? What are your transcoding settings?
At some point I will be doing a video on hardware transcoding. This video is just going over the basics. Consumer Nvidia GPUs are limited to 3 hardware transcodes at a time, though there is a special driver that lets it do unlimited steams. A popular GPU for transcoding among Plex server owners is the Nvidia P2000 as it does not have a transcoding limit and can handle a decent amount of concurrent transcodes.
I personally don't use it as I have my system set up to use the three hardware transcodes of my GTX 1050 and if it needs more, automatically switches to software encoding on my Ryzen 1600X. I rarely have more than three steams going at once, so it's never been an issue.
Intel's Quick Sync on their iGPUs does not have a transcode limit, which is why a lot of people recommend an Intel CPU.
From research I've done, Software>Nvidia NVENC> Intel Quick Sync when it comes to quality. But honestly, most people will not be able to tell the difference, especially with the NVENC encoder on Nvidia 30 series GPUs.
As far as the issues with Direct Play and Stream, you may want to head to a forum or Facebook group for help. There are a lot of advanced users that spend a lot of time on their servers.
My Plex servers are a i910900x 64gb of ram as I use ram for storage when transcoding with almost 60tb of storage some internal most on a nas that I connected to the Plex server over 10gb p2p connection that machine is a old dell server and a disk expander. The gpu in the Plex server is a quadro p2200
I have around 14tb of movies old and new movies. What would you recommend for plex
Are you planning on streaming outside of your home network? What devices are you planning on streaming to?
@@LevysCustoms I am in the UK and my brother is in Europe and 8 devices
You'll definitely need to transcode. And depending on the devices in your home, you may need to transcode as well.
How many streams do you have going at once? You can use Passmark scores to see what kind of CPU you need.
@@LevysCustoms I haven't bought anything I am looking into a synology or a tour pc
If you're going with a NAS, you will need to make sure all of your media is in a format that your devices can read.
My media server runs Emby instead of plex. With that out of the way, mine resides in a rack mounted, 20 bay 4U server chassis. It consists of dual 12 core E5-2697 v2 cpu's, 128 gigs of ram, and a spare 8gig RX580. I don't count on my gpu for heavy transcoding since I never have many concurrent streams.
ARC A750 A770 nice
I have Plex server on my windows PC. I have an AMD Ryzen 7 2700x, 16GB ram, I have a 2TB drive for recording tv and a 6TB for other file storage. The weak part is my video card. I have an old Nvidia card I think I paid around $60 for but it's got 2gb of memory and an HDMI port. I probably should get something better but now clue what I need.
I do stream out of the house sometimes but it's only me so only one stream at a time my internet is not very fast. I only get 6mbps up so I have Plex limited to 720p, 3mbps. It seems like video works ok and if tried mp3 and flac audio. Those stream ok
Add a sata controller card /shrug
I've thought of that, but I have plans on adding a capture card and tuner card, which eats up both spare slots. I'm planning on getting a DAS when I eventually run out of storage.
@@LevysCustoms That's what I was going to suggest, it worked great for me. I am currently using an old Intel Xeon X3470 cpu but since I've started encoding my movies with much higher bit rates, it is really getting bogged down. I am going to be upgrading soon.
Not here for plex media server. I was looking for virtualization hardware...
Anyone interested in big plex server? 800TB+
CH-CH-CH-CHIA 🤣
Mandark HA HAHA HA HA HAH A
My problem is people who use my server need to transcode due to shitty internet/network environments. So I want to make sure that I CAN handle transcode if need be.. this basically means that I can't have 4k content on my server though.. (when you play a movie with different versions does it ask you which one you want every time?)
Running my server my my Nvidia shield, just for me and one tv, direct play...buuuut...it sucks. Issues every other day, from not playing 7.1 truHD AT ALL, to just not loading my library...wanting to build a server
I saw your video about hardware for plex server, very good. I would like to know what video cards you recommend for external streaming. I have a lot of 4k video. my internet is fiber 500/500 mb. thanks
AMD GPU's aren't advertised that much because most of those technologies have always been a part of its software/hardware stack and RYZEN cpu's are powerful enough without quick sync and due to having alot of L3 cache also helps alot across the board whether you're using lower end RYZEN or high end and for way less power.
Rpi 4 \o/