Does Plex have a plugin for Archive.org content?
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2023
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I set up my Plex server in 2021 for under $300 USD, using an old PC case I already had. I built my system around the AMD Ryzen 3200G. No graphics card, 8GB RAM, and Ubuntu Server. I've never had more than maybe 2 - 3 users streaming my Plex at a time, but its been chugging along with no issues for about 2 years now. For what I use it for, performance has been great, and obviously it didn't break the bank. I'm probably going to add a dedicated GPU at some point for hardware transcoding, but other than that, the wife and I are happy with all our content in one place. Go ahead and build it yourself. You don't have to go big $$ up front. Just build what you need and expand later if you want to.
Most TVs can read from a usb drive directly; I used to load up all the the seasons of Pokémon onto a external hdd, usb plug it into the tv and just watch it directly
We have an old desktop that's usually turned on for one reason or another. The easiest thing for us was to make the D:\ drive visible on wifi, put all the media on the D:\ drive, and stick VLC on everyone's Roku/FireTV sticks. That way we didn't have to manually add new things to specific drives or worry about which TV's could watch which shows or accidentally run out of space on a thumb drive.
I also used plex for my kids for a while and for the longest time I simply put a couple HDDs into my personal PC and ran plex off my PC. It was more than adequate for just letting them watch whatever shows they wanted, no need to go crazy if you don't have the need for more!
This is true... I have a feeling my PC is pretty power hungry. I'll see how hard it would be to get my PC to WoL. I could have it boot up on a schedule and then power off on a schedule.
I can always migrate off it later.
How many drives do you have laying around? Synologys are nice (I have 2) but they’re a little pricey. You could go with one of the plus units and run Plex directly from there.
One of my coworkers got a TerraMaster NAS and installed Xpenology (basically the synology OS) on it. There hardware is a little cheaper.
I think I salvaged like 6 of them. I'd have to dig them out of a box for a good count.
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I’ve run a number of generations of servers at home. Generally speaking you just need a raid solution of some sort (motherboard solution, external add-on with interface board, what have you), slap an OS on it and adapt your device usage to include it. It depends on what hardware/software you have available to you. That being said, the last two have been synology models. They’re easy to use, and at some level include an external interface to their expansion cab. I can stream straight to my phone and access my server from anywhere and it has tons of other features I’m unclear on how to use, but I’ve seen plex on the install list, and it runs Linux under the hood.