c/Plex Share Your Build Thread - 2023-06-10
c/Plex Share Your Build Thread - 2023-06-10
I'd like to start a weekly share your build post every Saturday. This is a place to share your Plex Server builds and get advice on how to optimize/upgrade your server from other users!
Earlier this year, I built my new home server from a combination of my old desktop parts as well as new, higher end server parts.
- chassis/PSUs: https://www.aicipc.com/en/productdetail/87
- Intel i9-9900k
- 64GB RAM (Non ECC, but whatever)
- Broadcom/LSI SAS9305-16i HBA card
- 10GbE Card for LAN transfer speeds
Running TrueNAS Scale on NVMe, a mirrored pair of 500GB SATA SSDs for application data, and finally for the main storage: 3 x RAIDZ2 (6 wide) with 16TB HDDs for a max capacity of 174.3TiB of storage (currently just over half full with 6 empty bays left to populate when the time comes).
I'm using quicksync for hardware transcoding and it's all working great!
I have Plex running on a Raspberry Pi 4 4Gb ram with 6Tb storage.
I'm running a pretty modest build, just for my personal use:
27" iMac (Mid-2011)
- i7-2600 @ 3.4GHz
- 16 GB memory
- AMD Radeon 6870M 2GB
- 8TB Storage
- macOS 10.13 High Sierra
- PlexPass
What OS are you using? If Linux, how’s the support for AMD graphics?
Thinking about a mini PC build and want to consider AMD vs Intel vs Nvidia (which I think is out) for a small Plex setup.
sorry, forgot to put that in there. I'm running macOS High Sierra 10.13
Currently using a HP craptop with a broken screen from 2016, running Windows 10. AMD A10 chip 6gb RAM 128gb SSD for OS 12tb WD red drive in an enclosure
I was running a Synology DS220j for a couple years but wanted to be able to transcode for streaming outside of my house. It's just my family using it so I don't have that many simultaneous streams. So I ended up getting a DS 420+ with more space than I really will need for a while (we will see how long a while lasts!) I have been really happy with it so far.
Plex Machine (runs Plex and Only Plex)
- Ryzen 5 3600x
- 16GB Ram
- 2080 Super
- 500GB SSD
Unraid Machine (migrating to this new hardware this weekend), Runs *arr's and Storage and other docker things I don't know what I'm doing with.
- Dell m640 Blade in Dell VRTX Chassis (chassis has 2x m640 and 2x m520 blades)
- Dual Xeon Gold 6134
- 128GB DDR4
- 2x MD1000 15 bay Encolsures through LSI 9206-16E
- 1x 6TB (Parity)
- 11x 4TB
- 3x 3TB
- 14x 2TB
- 1x 2TB (cache)
- 1x 12TB drive I need to fit in there somehow