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I've fought against plex for years, only now is it starting to work right. I have transcode disabled, running it off a dual core ARM NAS to ATV4k and 2 shieldtv's at my house, and to an ATV4k at my girlfriends apartment. Works great except her dsl is too slow to stream the 4k stuff.I'm just running mine off my main machine. It's super easy to setup and as long as you aren't trying to transcode 4k HDR x265, it really doesn't take that many resources aside from as much hard drive space as you want to dedicate to it.
If you want your own seperate machine, anything that has a hardware decoder/encoder should do the job fine. (Intel Quicksync, nvidia nvenc, lots of NAS's have it.) I also know people who use the Shield as a server but I haven't dealt with that myself.
fast in what way? streaming media isn't that demanding, you could easily stream a dozen streams from a single 5400rpm drive.My problem is I want the media server to be able to be really fast. I guess the best way is use only SSDs but not sure if it is worth it ?
fast in what way? streaming media isn't that demanding, you could easily stream a dozen streams from a single 5400rpm drive.
I do use an SSD for my OS and Plex program and database.In response I guess when remote controlling it from my main pc. My current laptops as media servers feel so slow. They work but when having to update plex it takes ages. Or windows 10 updates.
Maybe I am just too use to my main pc speed?
I do use an SSD for my OS and Plex program and database.
scanning the drives doesn't take too long and I just have it set to scan the drives once a day.
Ya, pop some SSD's in them for the OS and Plex database and probably make it snappier.These old laptops have no SSD. So maybe I should get a small SSD for both of them ?
Ya, pop some SSD's in them for the OS and Plex database and probably make it snappier.
any machine that has SATA should support an SSD. you just might not get the max speed if you have SATA 1 or 2 on the machine.My problem is I am not sure if they would support a SSD and even then I doubt they support more than one drive.
any machine that has SATA should support an SSD. you just might not get the max speed if you have SATA 1 or 2 on the machine.
you can buy a 2.5" external USB case and use it if you want. those laptop spinning drives aren't the fastest so I personally wouldn't use it.True but what about the other SATA hard drive I take out? How can i use it as well for media instead only ? Not all laptops support 2 drives.
Oh ok.you can buy a 2.5" external USB case and use it if you want. those laptop spinning drives aren't the fastest so I personally wouldn't use it.
And if I don't ? How would be the best way ? Thanks. Sorry.If you have a small library, then get a single 2TB SSD and put the OS, Plex, and the media on it if you want.
get a larger driveAnd if I don't ? How would be the best way ? Thanks. Sorry.
What model of laptop is it? and as mirrored by others laptop is not an ideal plex server (though it would work, like you said its gonna be a bit slow to update/scan).True but what about the other SATA hard drive I take out? How can i use it as well for media instead only ? Not all laptops support 2 drives.
If I had stupid money, I would totally put all my media on a bunch of giant ass QLC SSDs ~still raid, but almost 0 access time and latency and no need to spin down to save drive life? sign me up.Zero reason to have your media on an ssd, but the OS and plex appdata folder on one is a good idea. I've been running plex on an unraid server for many years with no issues.
I would love to switch all my HDDs to SSDs purely for noise reasons. The HDDs writing/reading are the noisiest thing in my system (I have a super quiet system.)If I had stupid money, I would totally put all my media on a bunch of giant ass QLC SSDs ~still raid, but almost 0 access time and latency and no need to spin down to save drive life? sign me up.
Between that and needing like 2/3 the space and 1/2 the weight, a pipe dream for someday perhaps.I would love to switch all my HDDs to SSDs purely for noise reasons. The HDDs writing/reading are the noisiest thing in my system (I have a super quiet system.)
I actually haven't had an HDD spin down in years. I haven't had any issues with turning that off.
Saving that second of seek time adds up imo.
I'd need some large capacity ssd's for my 60TB's of media. 4TB consumer drives wouldn't cut it. It takes less then 30 seconds for my server to spin up a drive and start playing something. Spinning rust will be here for years to come.If I had stupid money, I would totally put all my media on a bunch of giant ass QLC SSDs ~still raid, but almost 0 access time and latency and no need to spin down to save drive life? sign me up.
Linus just did a vid on 15TB 2.5' ssd for $3200:I'd need some large capacity ssd's for my 60TB's of media. 4TB consumer drives wouldn't cut it. It takes less then 30 seconds for my server to spin up a drive and start playing something. Spinning rust will be here for years to come.