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Weekly Share-Your-Build Post

This is part of a weekly series of Share-Your-Build Post threads for everyone to share their builds, discuss different server solutions, and share knowledge and resources! Please be polite and helpful to beginners just getting started out, and we want to be as welcoming as we can to newcomers to this community.

Common info to share can include:

  • Plex server make/model
  • CPU and GPU info
  • Storage solution info
  • Plex add-on info (Radarr, Sonarr, Docker, etc.)
  • other configuration info

Anyone who posts good starter guides, FAQs, and/or wikis may get their links added to the sidebar so the rest of the community can benefit!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I have the Plex Docker container running on Unraid. The plex container has its own WD Blue NVMe for storage.

CPU: i3-9100 (Quicksync Enabled) RAM: 32GB DDR4 ECC Motherboard: Dell Precision 3630 Motherboard Storage: around 80TB using Unraid with 1 parity disk

Seems to work reasonably well for our 8 users, and all things considered was relatively cheap for hardware other than disks, which I got most of from the ServerBuilds forum group buy awhile back.

I moved to this from a dual Xeon setup in order to lower power consumption and enable quick sync. The dell motherboard works well but does require jumpers on some pins to boot that seems to be a craps shoot on eBay whether they are included or not, as well as a proprietary power button unless you’re okay with ignoring a boot warning.

[–] bitKraken 2 points 1 year ago

Storage: Synology NAS DS418play 16TB

Server: Ubuntu Server running on an old MacBook Pro (Intel Core i5-8259U) with removed display (because broken). Plex, Tautulli and lot of other stuff running as Docker containers. not the most stable, but it was basically free and capable even for transcoding.

Clients: 1 Apple TV, 2 iPhones, 2 iPads

Library Size: probably small-medium | 613 Movies | 84 Shows (4107 Episodes)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ubuntu 22.04 VM with 4xCPU and 2 GB of RAM. The media is currently on a QNAP via NFS. The VM host is a Ryzen 7 3800X.

I think I'm running pretty lean but my setup works well for our usage.