New to Raspberry Pi & Rasplex (Need Help!)

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I will soon purchase a Raspberry Pi as I have heard lots about it with its function with Plex. 

 

Here is my setup and please let me know if this will work out! 

 

I am planning to mainly use the Raspberry Pi as a Server for Rasplex. Do you guys recommend OPENELEC or RASPBMC as the OS? 

 

I have a Samsung F6300 that will serve as the "Plex Player" with the Plex App. I have a Netgear R7000 Router with a 2TB WD Portable Hard Drive connected via USB 3.0 on the router itself. Then I am planning on connecting the Raspberry Pi via Ethernet to the Netgear R7000.

 

My main goal in all of this is to always have the Raspberry Pi on as a server and not have to use my computer/laptop. My laptop with the plex server, when on, recognizes the portable hard drive and plays my movies just fine on my Samsung. I stream Blu-Ray Quality MKV files and I plan on overclocking my Raspberry Pi. 

 

I hope this makes sense but will all of this work and will the Samsung recognize the Raspberry Pi and my portable hard drive with all my movies? Guess I need to know the best config for overclocking and the right OS.

 

I would appreciate the help!

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This is not supported nor encouraged to run PMS on a rPI

http://www.rasplex.com/documentation/faq.html

I will soon purchase a Raspberry Pi as I have heard lots about it with its function with Plex. 

Here is my setup and please let me know if this will work out! 

I am planning to mainly use the Raspberry Pi as a Server for Rasplex. Do you guys recommend OPENELEC or RASPBMC as the OS? 

I have a Samsung F6300 that will serve as the "Plex Player" with the Plex App. I have a Netgear R7000 Router with a 2TB WD Portable Hard Drive connected via USB 3.0 on the router itself. Then I am planning on connecting the Raspberry Pi via Ethernet to the Netgear R7000.

My main goal in all of this is to always have the Raspberry Pi on as a server and not have to use my computer/laptop. My laptop with the plex server, when on, recognizes the portable hard drive and plays my movies just fine on my Samsung. I stream Blu-Ray Quality MKV files and I plan on overclocking my Raspberry Pi. 

I hope this makes sense but will all of this work and will the Samsung recognize the Raspberry Pi and my portable hard drive with all my movies? Guess I need to know the best config for overclocking and the right OS.

I would appreciate the help!