So the unraid devs have released a 64bit build of unraid which will eventually become standard. It'd be great to have a PMS for unraid that was built for a 64bit environment.
+1 ;)
dup thread but +1
I'm not sure a Plex Media Server is necessary for unraid-64. Since the most important upgrade in u-64 is Xen support, I expect most will go to running a VM with plex running in it's own cozy virtual home. You can then run a CentOs or Ubuntu version (or maybe if you are very clever, PMS and PHT on a OSX VM) and keep up to date easily.
Keeping the NAS fileserver's software clean just makes more sense to me. I have been running plex off of my unraid for as long as I have had both. I am still much happier now running plex in a VM separately—although in XenServer and not unraid-dom0.
I know that if you are not doing anything else with your system a Plug-in might be the "easiest" way for the end user, but I would imagine that maintaining the packages necessary for PMS just isn't viable in the long term when the majority will be using VM's. Plus, the 64-bit PMS already works in a VM (and it does seem faster).
I'm not sure a Plex Media Server is necessary for unraid-64. Since the most important upgrade in u-64 is Xen support, I expect most will go to running a VM with plex running in it's own cozy virtual home. You can then run a CentOs or Ubuntu version (or maybe if you are very clever, PMS and PHT on a OSX VM) and keep up to date easily.
Keeping the NAS fileserver's software clean just makes more sense to me. I have been running plex off of my unraid for as long as I have had both. I am still much happier now running plex in a VM separately—although in XenServer and not unraid-dom0.
I know that if you are not doing anything else with your system a Plug-in might be the "easiest" way for the end user, but I would imagine that maintaining the packages necessary for PMS just isn't viable in the long term when the majority will be using VM's. Plus, the 64-bit PMS already works in a VM (and it does seem faster).
I disagree completely. Many of us have very healthy Plex installations on unRAID. A lot of the tuning that can be done for Plex would be needlessly complicated by forcing a VM implementation. Some of us are running Plex on an SSD cache drive with very high performance that would be hard to directly replicate in a VM environment. Likewise, unRAID is not a standard NAS. It has been geared specifically towards media files that have (relatively) fewer very large files shared to relatively small numbers of users. In contrast, most other NAS environments and file sharing available in OS packages are geared towards sharing many very small files to many users.
Running a media-based service like PMS on unRAID is a much more natural fit than running virtualization. I agree unRAID lends itself to storage for virtualization, but disagree that it should be the VM host itself.
Running other installations as VMs makes much more sense because most other installations do not take advantage of the inherent and unique perspective that unRAID offers.
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Righto, we need to up-vote this thread, so that we can get an official build.
On the first post please make sure that you click the green "like this" button, and also reply so that it stays near the top of this forum.
Please also vote in the non-plexpass thread to cover all bases:
https://forums.plex.tv/topic/96024-plex-media-server-for-unraid-60-x86-64/page-2#entry584233
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Plex is the only plugin I run on my unRAID server and I look forward to running 64 bit.
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+1 ;)
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+1 The fact that Plex has an unraid server plugin is the main reason I use plex and paid the plexpass membership and unraid 64bit is the future.
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+1 definitely!
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I use a lot of transcoding so I definitively need a 64 bit plex on unraid :)
yes please.
+1 please
+1 Please
sad we have to ask really
it's not sad we have to ask - I don't think the devs are/were aware of 64bit unraid builds
