Expanding Plex from a PC to possibly a NAS

Plex Media Server NAS & Devices
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I am currently running PLEX on a Windows 7 machine, Z77 Extreme4 motherboard, i5-2400 CPU @ 3.10 GHz, 240gb SSD as the boot drive, and 4 8TB drives in RAID10 for Media. My media room is starting to run low, and I want to add 2 more 8TB drives. I have read that I cannot add these two drives to my array. I am wondering if I should look into something like a Synology DS2419+. If I purchased the DS2419+, and stuffed it with the 2 new 8TB drives, along with another 2 new 8TB drives, could I copy my data over from the PC to the new server, and then add in the 4 old 8TB drives? Would I want to continue to run PMS on the PC, or just run it on the Synology unit? At most, I have maybe 6 concurrent streams, and 3-4 of those are transcodes.

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You could do that, but you could also build your own synology box, xpenology that is.
Raid10 is a bad choice if you need to expand array in the future. Consider raid5/6 or if you go down the synology path, shr-1/2

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So if I went with a NAS, loaded 4 new 8TB drives in it, then copied from my PC to the NAS, and then removed the drives from the PC and put them in the NAS, and include the drives in Volume 1, would I be able to keep the data from what was moved from the PC to the NAS, or would the drives need to be formatted?

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Got it, thank you.

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Yes you can build a new volume with the 3 or 4x8TB, once all your media is moved you can then take your old 8TB and expand the array. But based.
Why the hate in btrfs?

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Presumably I wouldn’t need to run PMS on the Synology if I plan to use it for storage, and continue to run PMS on my PC though, correct?

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Do you really think synology would risk there reputation with a crappy file system?

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I was on the fence about btrfs but when I started getting fs errors with ext4 which could of been prevented with btrfs, that’s when I made the switch. I was a pain offloading 40TB and starting from scratch. Snapshots, CRC integrity and bitrot healing are all features useful for data.

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Thanks, and by all means if you want to stay in your little ext4 bubble and watch everyone around move forward that is also very much acceptable for yourself.

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