That’s good, I had to stop Jumbo as some VPN servers went haywire. I use about 3000 MTU
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Unless you are storing media files locally to the mini, 10gbit is expensive overkill.
It would take ~10 full bitrate 4K streams to saturate 1gbit Ethernet.
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I couldn’t agree more. I use 10GbE on my NAS and my primary computer for moving large files, but on my Plex server I have found it to be drastic overkill. My M1 MacMini on gigabit is working great.
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@jtandberg, it is normal for Plex bandwidth usage to be insanely bursty. Clients will download as fast as possible from Plex, until their buffers are full. Then they play from that cache, until it gets to some low-water threshold, before downloading some more.
Your bandwidth chart may look like a sawtooth, or mountains. It is very unlikely that you will see a client use a smooth amount of bandwidth.
Edit2: Also removing my comments about Ethernet settings. While I believe you generally shouldn’t change them unless you are troubleshooting an autonegotiation problem, this isn’t the place.
I’m not having a great experience so far. John wick 2 4K mkv hevc has resulted in 8-10 different green pixel events and less than perfect streaming. What are you all seeing with 60-80gb 4K movies???
Honestly, I’m starting to think that the Apple TV 4K is a bit long in the tooth and am going to work with something else as a tester
I haven’t see any anomalies across my AppleTV 4K or Shield with full 4K BD playback.
I’m overall very happy. I am going to see if there is an issue with my receiver perhaps. It’s a Yamaha Aventage 1050 that may be a bit too old for 4K HDR
I was previously using a 3050 and didn’t run into any issues with HDR10, but it is certainly a possibility. HDMI issues can rear their head in strange ways with HDR.
Hi pal, you mentioned something I was interested in.
I have The previous mini (the dark one 2018 model, got it last year)
It’s the 3ghz i5 with 64gb ram.
I’m connected to a sun 3.1 14tb external hdd, I’m using about 8tb.
I think as my plex app etc is on the mac ssd am I right in thinking my metadata etc is also on the ssd? Or is it on the external drive where my media is?
I asked because you said you have yours on an external ssd, if my metadata is in the traditional drive I’d like to move it to the ssd to speed the menu up etc. Does this makes sense?
If so how do move this? I’ve seen some posts but I couldn’t get it move.
Also any recommendations on transfer throttle time? I’m using 500 at the min. Just trying to get it all running as good as I can.
I’d recommend checking these out;
by default the plex data folder (database, metadata, cache, etc) is on the system drive.
if your system drive is small and/or slow, its better to move it to a faster/larger/ssd drive.
there is a more detailed guide on how to move the data folder on the forums, but I don’t have a link handy.
my plex data is stored on an internal, but dedicated (only plex data) 1tb ssd. I have all the thumbnails turned on, and a large media library, so the plex data is pretty huge .
I do not use mac mini for plex server, and not sure I would attempt to use any USB attached for the plex data for reliability reasons.
Thanks for the this litte review.
I’d like to know how Handbrake and DVDFab works on the M1? VideoToolbox support? etc
Handbrake works great with the VideoToolbox codecs. Testing was already done and reported above.
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Does the m1 support hw accellerated hdr tone mapping?
How much load does it produce on the cpu side?
It doesn’t from what I can tell. Each 4K HDR to 1080p transcode looks to be using around 35% of the M1.
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Can I ask why you’re moving away from the 3900x build? Currently I am looking to do the same.
Personally I’ve had numerous issues with stability, some due to Windows, some due to hardware but it seems there’s no end in sight. .
Do you think the M1 will be a worthy replacement for the 3900x?
Primarily to move away from such a power hungry resource operating 24/7 coupled with the associated maintenance that comes with Windows. I have been running the M1 MacMini for a tad over a week now and it has been outstanding. I have had zero issues with it since putting it place serving 4K HDR and 1080p content to a variety of players. It is cool and quiet. I love it for my use case.
How many users do you serve by chance?
On average about 4 at a time, but a total of 13 users can access at any moment.
I frequently have 10 simultaneous and 35 with access. Do you think I’d be alright?
It’s all 1080p content with about half of the users needing transcodes on average.
