5 Things to consider BEFORE you build a Plex Server!
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@ 1:13 #1 - SSD for Plex Meta-Data
@ 4:17 #2 - Mass Storage/Operating System - Options - 1)Microsoft Windows 2)Unraid 3)TrueNas/FreeNas
@ 9:09 #3 - Expandability Short or Long Term Thinking
@11:01 #4 - Performance
@13:25 #5 - Backup Battery Supply
@15:05 - # Honorable Mention - External TV Antenna & HD Home Run TV TUNER - Local News
You the MVP, thanks!
1 - Primary SSD - 1:14 - ruclips.net/video/NbYrc8ArLb8/видео.html
2 - Storage/OS - 4:17 - ruclips.net/video/NbYrc8ArLb8/видео.html
3 - Form Factor - 9:11 - ruclips.net/video/NbYrc8ArLb8/видео.html
4 - Performance - 11:03 - ruclips.net/video/NbYrc8ArLb8/видео.html
5 - UPS - 13:26 - ruclips.net/video/NbYrc8ArLb8/видео.html
6 - LIVE TV - 15:00 - ruclips.net/video/NbYrc8ArLb8/видео.html
awesome, thank you
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A few more recommendations from my experience:
- If you do have an "extra" SSD, consider making it your dedicated scratch disc to do your transcoding. Transcoding can be very hard on SSDs and it would be better to not put that wear and tear on your primary drive.
- An Nvidia Shield Pro and a 8-14TB external drive is a surprisingly compact and a relatively cheap starting point. The Shield is still one of the best Plex players, but also makes a surprisingly good server.
- Synology NAS with Quicksync enabled processor would be the next most compact and efficient storage/server combination while being scalable.
- Think about your internet upload speed before you get too carried away with how many transcode streams you want to support. Your CPU may be able to transcode 10 but your internet bandwidth may only allow 2-3.
Would you be against transcoding to ram disk?
@@dustinvanantwerp4917 I use to use a RAM disc for transcoding, I had no issues and I haven't seen anyone else having issues. That is of course assuming you know how and have enough ram to set aside. I ended up having a 16GB stick of Optane memory from another build that I now use for my transcodes.
@@ThatWilsonGuyvids Interesting. All these years and I never gave performance much thought. It's always done what I've asked it to do. When 4K HDR took off and I started adding that content, and when LiveTV and DVR were added, and I jumped on and bought a tuner. Never had performance issues with the 3-5 TVs and several mobile devices attached. The only thing I have problems with is Amazon devices crashing the plex app. Or locking up while fast-forwarding, but from my readings, this is totally just an issue with the Amazon Plex app. And on Roku, PC, and IOS, there are never any issues.
Can I buy an Nvidia shield and connect my synology ds416play Nas to it as the external drive?
On Linux just map your transcode directory to /tmp or to /dev/shm
Important notes:
1. Last I checked only Windows supports multicore subtitle encoding
2. Use software like Macrium Reect Free to backup your Plex drive (mine is all on NVME OS drive so everything is backed up)
3. GTX/RTX cards have the encoding limit locked so use the unlimited cracked drivers. GTX 1660 has Turing encoder for best quality.
4. Get better performance and be able to add drives to your Raid array with an Adaptec ASR 71605 Raid Controller with 1GB Ram, battery, and cables for ~$90 on eBay. But strap a 40mm fan to it because it will overheat (it pumps out heat)
5. Transcoding DTS-HD MA or Dolby True HD audio to when streaming to a device uses quite a bit of CPU, especially during the first couple seconds when it’s loading your videos buffer. If you have over ~8 streams then be sure to get at least a medium level CPU like an R3/5 or i3/5, not an Intel Atom or Pentium.
That's one 1 of the reasons I run Plex under Windows - better performance. You can also use an AMD RX card as it offers great decoding-encoding as well.
@@UnkyjoesPlayhouse yes but last I checked AMD has still not fixed their x264 encoder, and it looks bad compared to Intel/Nvidia. I originally bought a 2200G and it streams looked terrible. I returned it for the 8400 and it’s 2Mbps looked on par with the 2200G’s 4Mbps. That’s when I looked it up and found out there was an issue. EposVox did a videos about it too. So for now I’d stick with Intel/Nvidia when buying, but if you have a card on hand then use it. I ended up returning it for a R5 1600 (now 2700x) and buying a GTX 1660 instead :P
@@andrewskaterrr I am using an older Nvidia Quadro K2000 in mine right now. I have a GTX1650 in my Ryzen unit, will need to give it a try, thanks for the info :)
What about the 960? Something I have laying around and just built it from my old 3rs gen i5 running at 4.4 ghz my mobo won't allow more for some reason.
@@iwinrar5207 gtx 960 should work just fine for encoding/deciding. If you want to save power put the power limit at 80% too.
8:30 You can always build a pool of a single vdev with two mirrored disks in TrueNAS, then add another two disk vdev whenever you want to expand your storage. Allows you to start small and also not have to worry about a bunch of pools and datasets.
Can you elaborate on this? I am building HomeServer/NAS right now
Where people overlook and end up blowing it is not understanding their clients. Seems to make more sense to understand the client environment first, then build the server to suit it. Not the other way around.
This makes the most sense. This will be 99% of your interaction with the system.
Re: TrueNAS/FreeNAS the term you were looking for is 'all disks for a vdev at the same time' - you can still combine multiple vdevs into a single storage pool, but do need to consider the redundancy of each vdev and not the storage pool
Exactly what I needed today! Thank you!
Definitely power consumption. Some stats like where I live, it's $0.37/KWh. I just downgraded my plex server from a 2950x ThreadRipper with a 1070TI to a 10700 only. And it's a big difference power wise.
37 Cents per KWH? Seriously? Where the EFF do you live?
@@HonRevJoWazzoo Connecticut
@@HonRevJoWazzoo Even cheaper in London at 17p per KWh
I thought I was bad at nearly $0.19/Kwh. I just created a Raspberry PI 4 to run my Plex Server. Not the fastest thing in the world, but guess what? IT WORKS. We don't stream in 10 areas, matter of fact, I'm about the only person using the server in the family. Regardless, I moved to the PI because of power consumption. Running a desktop machine eating up $0.80 per day in power for something we use once in a while was kind of stupid. The PI eats up like 0.08/day or less.
Will this work when you have multiple people streaming? Well, at 1080P we can stream two at a time without issue, which would be the MAX ever. MOST of my media is old TV Shows, and older movies that we owned and I ripped to the NAS, so quite a bit of it is 480p, and guess what...I ran 4 streams without a single issue.
@@WreckDiver99 That's pretty slick. We use direct play from my NAS so we don't even transcode anything unless we are going on a trip and need to fill our ipads.
Thanks for the video. I share my Plex server on the same laptop PC that I run the PLEX operating program. I have a 1 TB SSD on a I7 processor with Windows 10. My internet speed is around 250 Mbps. I am a single user and use PLEX to DVD record some local TV Antenna channels that get saved to my MEDIA storage area on my server. So far I have not had any problems doing this. I edit the TV shows and remove the commercials, save it to another EXT hard drive and then remove the original content from the server storage. So another words, I do not store and keep allot of personal content on the server storage area- I have other EXT hard drives that do this. There is no way to record their PLEX movie content or TV shows other than to watch them later. Once I am done watching the movie, etc, I remove it from the watch later function.
Setup was easy to do for my PC. Only thing I needed to buy extra was the HDHomerun Tuner box and few coax cables. Everything else I already had.
Overall, everything works great with PLEX and I now have a way to record my local Digital TV channels from my Antenna. Quality of the recordings are pretty good. take care.
Thanks for the basic breakdown... I've been working on my PMS and already have drives to shuck. Only trying to decide on cpu /motherboard and case... Really only need 16-24 (definitely want a 4U). Thanks for the CPU tip
Make sure you have a sufficient upload speed on your Internet connection. I got screwed when I wanted to get a 500Mbps connection, and only get a wimpy 15-20Mbps upload. I've been barely able to do 1 transcoding stream on a Z77 Xeon E3-1225v2.
Another good option is a linux server which can also use zfs storage pools. I've been running mine for a few years now. It has been solid and performs above my needs with just a newer pentium cpu which can also do hardware transcoding.
What is hardware transcoding ?
@@DaveckKProduction old thread but just in case - hardware transcoding is a Plex premium feature that allows you to offload the transcoding (converting video codecs or resizing videos) to specialized hardware. If you don't have specialized hardware, it is exceptionally CPU intensive.
The specialized hardware is either an NVidia GPU, or an Intel CPU that supports Quick Sync.
Anyone else notice the wardrobe change. I see what you did there.
What is this sorcery?!?
If you can swing it, having enough RAM to have a RAM drive for your transcoding is HUGE. Saves on the write endurance of your SSD a TON so you don't eat through SSDs, and has the added benefit kf being UBER quick. Dont underestimate this!
Could you do a tutorial on setting up a UPS with an unraid server over a network? I've got 2 servers in my rack (one is a backup) but the ups is only connecting to the the 1 for some reason 🤷🏽♂️
I think the UPS aspect is the Prio1. Even higher than parity on unraid. Had a power outage some time ago and it corrupted my flash drive to read only. Fortunately I could move my license to a new drive, but it put me over the edge to buy a UPS
Hey Jason. I'm curious if it's possible to see when users you share you library with have buffering issues when streaming for a Plex server? Will tools like Tautilli give you that information? How do you monitor for this?
My Plex client is my Redmi TV and it can play almost all my videos in direct play or direct stream mode even hdr. And that is my only client (sometimes my iPhone)
So my repurposed Intel i5 4th gen laptop is working just fine as I don't need to transcode any video and I always stream one client. In future I think of building a unraid server. Will see how it's goes.
Thanks for the great video. It definitely helps.
I just built a plex server out of a raspberry pi 4. nas case with an ssd in it, and an external drive for media. It struggles adding in subtitles to media unless you stream it to the desktop app. Other then that it can handle 2 streams just fine and is a fun thing to set up. I was using a computer with a core I7 7700k for its processor but it was a bit overkill for my needs and i wanted to use that computer for something else
This is my second , but stayed to watch cause I'm def no expert. Thanks for sharing mate.
Dude, you have more infrastructure than most small companies. Great job!
Great content!
Another great video.Cheers!
My Plex, runs on a Debian VM on ProxMox. Library is a ZFS pool. VM lives on its own SSD.
Buying used enterprise servers are a good idea if you want something that sounds like a jet taking off in your house, those fans are really loud in enterprise servers
Great informative video! I love my win10 jbod setup. It works for my needs.
@@Verminator151029 jbod doesn’t mean there is no backups being done.
I’m running a cheap $89 dell tower I got on clearance. Only upgrades I did was a $50 SSD and 16GB of RAM. CPU is a G4400 nothing special or extreme. It runs fine, pretty low power use (runs 24/7). I’ve considered moving to a Shield as my server and still might because I’m sick of dealing with Windows.
I was running an Nvidia Shield and it was great for a while but started running really hot all the time - kept dropping USB connections etc. Was restarting it every couple of days. Just built a TrueNAS server to replace it and it's a whole different world. Took a while to configure but once it was up and running it's an absolute dream! Budget wise it only cost like $600AUD - a Shield is like $350AUD. Worth the price difference if you can afford it and are up for the tinkering required to get it running. This is just my opinion of course, but at some point you're gonna want to bite the bullet and do it 'properly' - I recommend doing it now - the Shield will be half the budget. Makes a great Android TV box as well though.
I‘ve started with Windows and because of you I switched to unraid. This was the best thing this year. It is so much more performance. It is a so cool and stable system.
Thank you!
Jason, you should do a video of plex Transcodes using intel QS vs a p2000 or even the ryzen 3900x.
i regret my p2000
Can a CPU without integrated GPU transcode media or do you need iGPU to output a display only?
@@seasesh4073 Thats totally my bad on that, I meant like one of the Ryzen APUs
@@jamescox5638 I just built a dual Xeon build for my new plex server 16 core 32 thread total cost of like 200 since I already had power supplies and Ram ! I might include a decent graphics card for transcoding but from what I’ve seen unless you get a damn 2060-3060 it really isn’t worth it atleast not for me if people plan to offer server access to multiple people then it’s probably worth it assembling the new pc this week curious to see how plex reacts to all the cores and threads
Jason, I am a person who streams from a Plex server. Is there a way to cache files locally? And if so, would that benefit the server in any way?
You can now expand a Pool dataset in TrueNAS Core and it works well.
Caveat for NVME Drives: On many motherboards, using the nvme slot means losing two SATA ports, basically bringing you down one drive in potential capacity.
Enter SAS controller. No issues with on-board sata ports 😜
I have OS+Plex on one SSD, and Plex data on another SSD. As for NVME - Are you recommending NVME for both of my setup, or really just the Plex data drive?
How hard was it to move your metadata over to a bigger SSD?
also for less then $150 bux on ebay, NVIDIA Quadro P400 can do around 4 streams.
Really enjoy your channel, so only trying to be helpful - I think at 8:14 you meant RAIDZ1 RAIDZ2 and not ZFS1 & ZFS2 (latter being file system). I'm not in the slightest way bothered, just thought I'd mentioned it. RAIDZ2 is generally nice, cos when you're replacing one failed drive, another can fail while you re-silver (re-distributing data across discs) and you lose no data at all. Not one....bit :-) Keep up the good work and fair play on the garage floor 👍
Disclaimer: Tech isn't my job, so I could be completely wrong.
You’re correct, and RAIDZ1/2 is the same as RAID5/6.
@@andrewskaterrr Cheers 👍
can you please do a review of ds920+? Really want to know how well it will plex before I buy one and I really trust and value your opinion!
A UPS seems like a pointless expense until you lose valuable hardware or data due to a power outage/surge/brownout. I now have 3 of the Cyberpower UPS systems - one for my PC, one for my networking equipment, and one for my home theater.
Can you do a video on setup to store files on cloud services and link plex server? Services like pcloud will allow me to buy 50tb ($500/yr) or 100tb ($1,000/yr) with other options as well. This eliminates need to buy new drives when they crash or when you need more storage.
Would LOVE to get a video on maybe the top 10 home server chassis for Unraid. Maybe categorize them by drive count or cost. Thanks!
I bought a HP260, mounted a SSD via USB/SATA. I installed Linux/Chaletos. I plan on using this for a Plex Server(I'm a rookie at this shit).... Am I better off just buying a Shield?
I went the FreeNAS route, but when I built it I didn't even know about Plex..... just needed storage with protection (redundancy). That said, as a non-linux guy..... it's easy to get going but harder to tweak. For example, and this is where I'm stuck (internets no help). I made Plex in the plug-ins and gave myself ownership. Mounted a pool named "Media" for it and have folders for Music, Movies, TV shows...ect in the Pool. My issue is the scheduled back-ups via Plex. I point the back-up directory to "/Media/Plex BACKUPS" so that the back-ups will be in a folder by itself on the media pool...... yet the folder is empty when I open it in win windows (network locations/NAS/Media/Plex BACKUPS". So, while it's nice to have all in one box, having it as a plug in defiantly complicates things if your not a linux guru....
I haven't done it yet, but this is supposed to be a better install method - github.com/danb35/freenas-iocage-plex . Are you using Rsync to backup? That takes some fiddling if not familiar (which I wasn't!).
I'm going AMD when I build my system. I'm trying to decide between a 3400G and a 3100 with a graphics card that will cost me another $130 or so.
Can I attach multiple external drives to my shield pro Plex server? I have 5 10tb drives connected to a usb dock.
Ah, a classic BMB tutorial
As soon as he wrote SSD one handed with the index card sliding around, I knew it was.
My 1600x will work great for years with 1080p content. 4K is a little different but if you get a nice high bitrate 1080p file, I am all good! :)
You talking about a Ryzen 1600x? I am in the process of migrating my plex to a newer build, but I never had any issues with 4K HDR across several streams on my Ryzen 1600x. If you want to stick with that hardware and improve the transcodes I would recommend a Quadro p400. They run about $150 and will make vast improvements.
Well I have Plex on VPS... can't say that it's been bad at all. I would rather use it locally but I wasn't able to figure out port forwarding and I didn't want my PC to be turned on 24/7
Can you do something for audiobooks on plex?
Great video as normal :)
i had JBOD, but a few of my disks failed, got an old computer for 50 buck and put unraid on it, i feel much safer now, although my drives are duck taped
I heard about Plex as this awesome easy to use simple tool for getting access to all the movies on that external hard drive but the more videos I watch about it on YT the more I find out that you pretty much need to be a sys admin to even set it up right. Guess I'll be sticking to airplaying...
You could also use Xpenology (Synology DSM on your own hardware). That'll provide an excellent RAID/SHR option without the hardware lock-in.
That's what I did. Synology hybrid raid is fantastic. It allows me to add different size drives. I just make sure that I do manual updates for the Plex server. I put it on an old Dell studio PC that I got for free.
I started down that path but ultimately went with actual synology hardware. Xpenology was too much of a hack and I don’t want to have to worry about my data through upgrades etc.
@@lordgarth1 that's probably for the best. I don't dare ever actually update DSM as it would probably break. A couple things I don't like about synology is the reliance on synology for their software(you have to use a synology account for all their software) and the outdated versions in the software store. Plex server is several versions behind at all times hence the need for manual updates for plex.
@@troyy2307 thats not true. You can manually install Plex and versions are updated as frequent as other versions. And you can get third party software from Syno Comunity right in the app station
If your Plex data is 280GB. Then you must have a crazy number of files? +- 300k? I’m using 2.6GB’s for Plex (Docker). Then again I don’t know how much Plex sizes vary between different types of installs. Or I’m missing something.
I notice that all the PMS build guides recommend using an NVIDIA Quadro PXXX card for hardware transcoding. But I've also seen videos and forums saying graphics cards are useless. I have an old GTX660 in my PMS build. I have no idea how to tell if it's being utilised or not without just ripping it out and seeing the difference.
My question is this... Why the Quadro over other cards? Is my GTX useless in this scenario? Help a sister out.
From my experience, the GTX and the Quadro equivalent work very much the same. For what PMS users use it for (Nvenc) so a GP107 is a GP107 if it's branded as a GTX1050TI or a P400. I've used both for encoding/decoding never noticed a difference. However, I can say. P400 is much cheaper now and has the added benefit of only taking up a single slot.
The GTX660 does not support Nvenc, see developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-and-decode-gpu-support-matrix-new
An easy way to tell if Plex is HW transcoding is looking at the dashboard while a stream is running, it will say Transcoding(HW).
Helllo I have a question I have issue with plex Desh my server does show how can fix it on my iPhone. Thank you.
I just spun up Plex, but I am trying to figure out what to do with it. Music files and photos, of course. I don't know about you, but I tend to watch a movie once and then move on, so I won't be ripping my DVD's onto the Plex. There's too much to see waiting in front of me, so I can't look backwards too long.
6 is not as catchy as 5 😂. Good video, even I use emby this tips are useful for everyone
What chassis are you using (referring to the one in the video)?
Check out his other videos on it. It's called "Loki" There's a whole playlist he made detailing its construction
You can get a ultra low power plex server if you are willing to optimize your collection. Using a raspberry pi 4 with a few ssds and h265 optimized movies and tv shows yields excellent streaming performance to multiple devices on the network. (Provided you are using the app and not web client, or else it will try to transcode, dont do that!)
Send that 370PRO my way. I've got real-world uses for it.
I have a AMD 2600 CPU in a Tomhawk Motherboard, 16GB RAM with a shi*** GPU, running on UNRAID. at the moment I don't have my PLEX on a SSD but a normal 2.5 250gb HDD and it runs fine.
If you count on the Camera Upload feature just forget it. It`s restricted to Plex Pass and even if you pay the feature is broken since july!!!
I except the blame sir. My humble thanks!
What rack case is that?
Can you tell me what kind of a computer I would need to make a server ?
what do you think about plex on a raspberry pi? how do I get the most out of that?
Second MOFO 250gig metadata file LOLO. I am running a Poweredge R610 with 96gigs of ram and dual zeon E5645's all my media is stored on 2 buffalo TeraStation's but about to move to a PowerEdge R720XD 12 Bay 3.5, 2x 2.0GHz 6 Core, H710 with 128gigs of ram and 96tb of space for my media and backups will be using Truenas on this. My bandwidth is from Xfinity GIG service I finally got the up speed to serve out to all my clients and friends. All equipment is interconnected with 10gig connections. I can't stress more to have the up bandwidth if you have multiple clients connecting to your plex server outside your network.
Yes ....This! My bottle neck is definitely my upload. I'm running 130 TB dual 2650 2.6 Xeons server paired with a P4000 and bottle neck at 30 Mbps upload. I can't wait for symmetrical gig to be available in my area
@@bigbigspoon What's your ISP in your area?
@@marcesw35 Concast
@@bigbigspoon wow, they don't offer gig speed in your area is some bull.
@@marcesw35 Gig down but not gig up.
Hello, what case is that one holds so mush disks? thank you!
Ubuntu server on usb drive, syslink to the storage for meta files.
Storage, two shucked 12tb drives, mergerFS, backup hard drive. micro ITX case.
i really want a server but im broke. can you help find a cheap and good one like bout 100$ and 50tb to 108tb
GPU transcoding only works with unraid right you said it later in the video but you didnt make it clean at least I cant make GPU work on my TrueNAAS build
can a used enterprise server be enough for plex server on unraid?
Cool Tips..I kinda went Ballz to the wall with my own Netflix Host build with dual xeon e5-2696 v2's 1tb cashe ssd & a 500 for plex n then a another 500gb but maybe a 250gb for some vm's & a Quadro 128gb of ecc ram Gota have the dual 10gb sfp+ nic Withall beQuit fan mods on a supermicro 24 bay case ! i went with a pair of gammax gt cpu coolers But i think they are giving me some trouble so i think i am fixing to order a pair of noctua 3u coolers to see if that fixes my isue !!
Plex on esxi Ubuntu vm connected to library on synology mas over 10gig is the most reliable fastest option I’ve ever used. I do have a quadro passes through but generally don’t transcode. Running it on windows was a shit show.
I look at it like this, the new 11th gen intel 730/750 IGP are good enough to transcode a bunch of 1080 streams. Transcoding 4k is a waste of time, even with a p2000. I have been using jellyfin for going on 2 years now, the only thing that is causing me to consider switching to plex is 4k direct play issues on some devices with JF.... also jellyfin stores your metadata on the actual raid array with the media in each media item's folder.. I don't like that plex saves all the metadata to a separate drive. Seems backwards and may be a dealbreaker for me.
Hi Jason and all the lovely people. Has someone managed to run the HW transcoding with a ryzen + quadro combo on unraid?
1 SSD for metadata? Don't you backup or RAID it??
Can I get a link to your specs of your builds?
I’m just getting started and have decided not to rip my 4K titles as the take up way too much space and have decided to go with Blu-Ray and DVD rips. I’m starting with a 12 TB drive and I’m having trouble with my Apple TV which is hard wired to my modem not my router and the Plex is going through my router. I have my remote access on and it’s working fine but the Apple TV will only playback files at 320P it won’t go to original quality for nothing. My Firesticks work just fine at full quality.
I went win 10 pro, running a jbod box via a sas controllers pushing 46 drives
Also, using windows storage spaces to pool it all together, with parity
i had to settle down haha i found out abotu Plex just a couple weeks ago and i was like movie movie movie ripping everywhere ... then i was like... wow, i better settle down until i get a External SSD lol where does the default box art and info save to on your PC?
5 things i re-consider after i built it. Nuc8i7 plus a big noctua heatsink. dual nic. so i worked alot on this. no more consideration
I feel like I need to go aquire some type of masters degree in technology and then come back and rewatch this video LOL
okay um isn't using NVMe is almost unecessary? especially if you have less than 1GBps internet. that why you use HDD/SSD instead of NVMe for something like this
I didn't realize where the ssd thing was going till he popped the m.2 there. I laughed to hard at that but hey. I am a kid at heart and Height.
Hi l, grate vid tnx. Do you suggest syneology or building my own server like you. I would like to stream to 10 family members.
I think 10 is a little optimistic for a Synology. I love mine and am very happy with it but I only have 2-3 streams max and most of my media is 480 or 720p for that reason. I have the DS218+ thats all I use it for, just the 2 drives (12TB's Mirrored)
Synology will work for that as long as you get one of their better units.
@@troyy2307 good to know
If u really want to stream to that many people make sure
1. your isp upload speed is really high.
2. Get qnap tvs 872xt or build your own Media server for better bang for your buck with AMD cpu
I do not know anything about the hardware, so I bought the highest specifications I found in the store so I have an i7-10700k octa core 10th generation processor mixed with nvidia GeForce rtx 2080 super 8GB, does that do the trick for me to run Plex easily?
Weird flex
Do I really need an SSD for the meta-data when using 10k spinning disks?
Yes, you should really go with ssd especially if you have ton of metadata. While back i had to swap back to hdd, it was 15k rpm drive and it was still too slow. Just last night i swapped back to ssd and the difference in speed is like night and day. If you are running linux you can get bit more speed out of hdd by mounting it with NOATIME option so it doesn't write access times to files
Why wouldn't someone use Linux with a manually configured raid 5 or 6 ?
Meanwhile me running PLEX on a 2012 laptop with an i7 3630qm 🤡 On Ubuntu Server. On a HDD 😂
Granted I only need it to stream to 1 TV. Tested 1080p blu-ray rip and played that just fine.
Even a basic 4k file ran with no stutter.
hey, is there anyway i can keep my Plex server active if i turn off my PC cause i like to turn off my PC at night?
can you leave the heater on in your car so it is warm for you in the mornings with the car turned off at night to save gas?
On unraid, plex on stand alone ssd? (Not part of cash)
Cache
Stand alone if you have other dockers running that requires read/writes
Did u change your shirt 3 times in the same video? XD
Ummm, you can expand the pools in TrueNas Core. You need all of the drives in any pool to be the same size, but you can add drives to expand a pool. @Craft Computing would know this... IJS LOL.
that would be interesting as one of the reasons I went to UNRAID was the lack of adding to the pool. but if this has changed then I will look at trueNas for my backup server
@@mysmtpservices4818 I believe the feature came when they switched over to TrueNas, as my servers put the info for it in my Alerts.
Agreed. I was confused when he said this too. I only came around to TrueNAS a few years ago, it has supported this since I started the project. It's actually one of the reasons my friends suggested it, as they moved from unraid to it.
@@evana4622 i am kinda new to TrueNas, but I do know this is def a feature.
@@mysmtpservices4818 my understanding is you can add to a pool. But it’s dependent on the configuration of the first vdev. So if you start with 6 drives as one vdev. And only have that one vdev in a pool. To expand the pool you need an additional 6 drives in a second vdev.
I am curious to know how I can figure out how big my Meta data is. In "Unassigned" Devices, it's only showing around 12.6GB of 240GB used. I did try browsing it through file explorer & even MC to view the size but seems accurate. Then again, I'm not using thumbnails or Transcoding on it, just Meta. Using the RAM Transcode probably helps.
In Plex settings do you: "Include related external content " and "Enable video preview thumbnails" ? How big is your library? For example: I have 1,500 TV show, 6,000 movies, 123,000 songs, 300 work out videos, 100 audio books, and about 6,000 other items. My metadata sits at 622GB with those enabled. Check to see if you have configured the location correctly. This should help since it sounds like you have Unraid. ruclips.net/video/uZ7zH8nMFGs/видео.html
@@bigbigspoon I know I don't have thumbnails enable. I knew that would inflate the size considerably. Pretty sure external content is also disabled. I don't remember how many I have but it's in the neighborhood of 1-2TB of movies & 1.2TB of TV. Maybe it's still caching on a HDD,l
That m.2 to drive is mine I lent it to you don't you remember? :-)
Plex only allows 10 users right ?
Ah yes, so many things to think about.
*pulls out 13 year old computer with a 500gb hdd and chucks DVDs on it*
BestBuy has a deal on 14TB hard drives for 189...
During prime day they were cheaper 174 I grabbed 4 already shucked and running. Still decent deal at 189