20-07-2017, 22:13
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cf.geek
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: United Kingdom
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Plex home server
I am planning on setting up a plex home server
Will this be good enough to run it
I will be also adding Plex Live TV & DVR to it in the future
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21-07-2017, 00:10
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Cable Guru
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Scotland
Age: 42
Services: Virgin Media Gig1 RFOG, TV360, Stream, GoFibre 1Gb
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Re: Plex home server
Yes it will be perfect, might want to check out the QNAP NAS drives as well, they support H265 encoding and are much smaller than a mini-ITX setup for around the same price you will throw at a full PC build.
I run the QNAP ts-453a with 4x4TB drives and its perfect for H265 and 4K streaming.
HTH
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22-07-2017, 21:55
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step on my trip
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 3,763
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Re: Plex home server
Yes, those specs are fine for Plex. You won't regret it - it's awesome.
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22-07-2017, 22:16
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Mum 30/09/20 Dad 08/08/24
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Services: 2 x TiVo 360s, SH5. Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ 5G, Ton's of Smart Home stuff, & Cuddy Toy
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Re: Plex home server
Will this be an option?
I have a 2 & 3TB WD NAS drives which are both connected to my Router, I can access the Music and Video on them from all my "Connected" devices (TVs, Blu-Rays, Xboxes Phones & Tablets)
Plus I can and have accessed via my phones data connection.
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24-07-2017, 23:01
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cf.mega poster
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Northampton
Services: Virgin Media TV&BB 350Mb,
V6 STB
Posts: 8,171
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Re: Plex home server
Quote:
Originally Posted by weesteev
Yes it will be perfect, might want to check out the QNAP NAS drives as well, they support H265 encoding and are much smaller than a mini-ITX setup for around the same price you will throw at a full PC build.
I run the QNAP ts-453a with 4x4TB drives and its perfect for H265 and 4K streaming.
HTH
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Are you sure that the A version can handle H265? From their website only the B version, eg TS-453B can handle H265 and 4K.
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26-07-2017, 11:18
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Ex - McNicholas Guildford
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Petersfield, Hampshire, UK
Age: 34
Services: Sky Q 1TB, 2 x Sky Q Minis, Virgin Media Business Voom Fibre 2
Posts: 314
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Re: Plex home server
I cheated with my Plex setup...
I just rent a server from Hetzner so i can access it anywhere due to the 1gb upload...
Well worth the 30 euro per month...
16GB RAM
6TB space
Intel Core i7
Would recommend the data centre route if you are looking to stream outside your network, or plan on remote users watching your content
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