All,
I have been running Plex on an old MacMini for a few years, just for movies, which had an external drive attached. Because of some other home computer situations, I decided to get a Drobo NAS so I can centralize all my movies, home videos, music and photo libraries into a central place for the entire family.
When I did this I installed Plex on the Drobo directly, and over a couple weeks migrated all my media to the Drobo from all the other places that info was stored. I am happy with a central location for all my stuff.
However, what I am realizing that may have been working seamlessly behind the scenes while I ran Plex on my Mac - and is NOT happening on my Drobo - is backgrobund encoding. I am receiving errors on playback about the server not being powerful enough to playback. That error happens when the source is too high rez and it tries to make a smaller verions, which the Drobo cannot do.
So, I could manually encode smaller versions, which I started to do and that works, however, I am now realizing that this is not a long term fix. (what if I am away and go to stream something and the right encoding is not in place, I have no way to do that encoding - but if Plex were on a Mac it could do it on the fly for me is my assumption).
So, after a lot of effort to make a nice new PMS on my Drobo, I want to migrate it to a new Mac Mini (which I would have to invest in). The files will still be on the Drobo and not be effected, but all the media library clean up and organization I did I want to keep in place and not have to start over again (I started clean when going from the old MacMini to the Drobo).
So, is this possible? Is this the right long-term approach?
Thanks
