Transcoding 4k is basically s fools errand. If you plan on this use case, store a 4k and 1080p copy, and transcode the 1080p copy down when needed for mobile streaming. Plex Media Server is managed through a standard web interface. We right-click on the icon and select Media Manager. Plex Media Server is then started as a small orange and black icon at the bottom of the taskbar. We then start the program by clicking on Start. ![]() TLDR what is the actual use case? For a home user with ~5 concurrent streams, assuming they are all direct play 1080p, a i3 or equivalent AMD CPU, 4GB of RAM, and a single hard drive would do it without even trying.Īlso, the first 3 rules of 4k is do not attempt to transcode 4k. After that, Plex installs itself on our self-made NAS. BUT, a single hard drive is faster then 1 gigabit Ethernet… so if you do have a use case where your trying to feed a lot of streams, your going to run into networking bottlenecks before you run into hard drive read speed limitations (unless, again, MANY streams at once which a hard drive will struggle with). I typically watch full 4k Dolby Vision / Dolby Atmos blu rays (converted to MP4 or MKV) when available which are MASSIVE files, a single movie can be 50-100 GB depending on run time, and my little i3 and 3 GB of ram doesn’t even try, because it’s not really actually doing anything.Īnd reading data off a hard drive is easy, every hard drive made in the past 15 years would be able to smoothly play a bluray rip, definitely no need for cache unless your attempting to have MANY streams, but even then, cache likely wouldn’t help, you would just need a very fast array (lots of discs) to get the throughout up. With that, I can easily transcode 3-4 1080p streams down to 720p, depending on their bit rate (typical already somewhat compressed 1080p), I can only do 1 fill bluray rip to 720p for reference.ĭirect play which is 99% of what I use since I usually watch in my house on my TV or other devices, requires almost no resources at all since it’s just sending data directly with no transcode or “work” being done. My homelab is a i3 6100…… and I only give that VM 3 GB of RAM and 2 CPU threads. If you only have one main computer, you can still use it for Plex however, you may experience some performance loss while Plex is running as it will require some CPU overhead. I run my Plex server in a Ubuntu server VM on my homelab. The cheapest way to build a Plex server is to not build one at all, and instead, use an old laptop or desktop computer. Are you planning to transcode? How many streams? I wouldn’t use RAID0, there is basically no point when RAID 5 exists. Plex needs almost nothing… the biggest thing is raw space. What size drive or partition should I use for the cache? an SSD for this? Is there a better way of doing this now? ![]() Does anyone have any suggestions on what the best way is to setup a cache for those drives? Thinking of using either an m.2 or an ssd as a cache with PrimoCache. As of today (Nov 10, 2021) what is the best Plex setup in terms hard drives? I'm thinking two 12 TB hardrives in raid 0 (don't really care if the data dies) with a SSD cache.
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