Sharing plex server with friends. Speeds needed/cpu

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I have a 500GB root drive with six 3TB HDD (18TB) in a RAID5 configuration. The server has 8GB of RAM and an Intel i3 processor clocked at 2.6GHz. We usually have 2 people watch local while 1 away with no problems at all. Plex uses around 65% of the CPU. If two people are outside the network then maybe around 70%. It works out really well. I love it. Also we have 5Mbps up connection, it is not bad for 2 people outside the network as long as it is set at 3Mbps. Buffering takes like 2minutes on HD content.Ā 

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For 111Euro you can getĀ 

			Intel i5-2300
		
			4 c / 4 t
		
			2.8 GHz+
		
			16 GB RAM
		
			6x 4 To SATA
		
			 
		
			 
		
			1 Gbps / 300 Mbps

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OVH is selling again, there is a less powerful/spacey i3 in usa

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Ya, I went with the i3 because it uses 35w which reduce power consumption which was kinda important to us after having a blade server kill our electric bill. It might have not been important to go that far but it was important to us to save energy. Our server runs really cool which is another thing that was important to us.Ā 

This is the one we went with:Ā http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115094

We don't really have problems with the CPU bottlenecking and we use CrashPlan to backup our server (we allow it 1Mbps). Now given it takes a really long time to back up our data (almost been a whole year) since we have 7.5TB of data. We just don't want to have to rebuild the server from scratch. The CrashPlan has some features that allow it to take a certain amount of CPU usage when no one is using it (i.e. watching Plex) and then we have a limit of its CPU usage when we are using Plex as our priority is then watching our content.Ā 

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Most of my stuff is 720 with some mixed 1080. My max streams to external friends and family has been about 9 concurrently. Mix of roku and plex/web. Hit average 55% CPU, and about 40mbps output average over my router.


I have 100mb fiber with the option for 1gig for a few more $. I havenā€™t really saturated my 100mb yet, so I havenā€™t upgraded.


CentOS VM with 8 cores on a i7 2600k.


Plex rocks.


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http://prntscr.com/d09r10 i got my 16tb 1gps up/down 54 euro

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I have 7Mbps upload speed and my System config (bought the desktop from system76) is as below:

Ubuntu 16.10 64 bit
Processor: Intel 3.5 GHz i7-5930K (15MB cache ā€“ 6 Cores ā€“ 12 Threads)
RAM: 32 GB Quad Channel DDR4 at 2400MHz (4Ɨ 8GB)
Graphic Card: 2 GB GTX 960 Superclocked with 1024 CUDA Cores

Average passmark for my CPU is: 13,636

I use Darktable, Qt Creator, MySQL, Chrome, Chromium and steam (rarely or occasionally) on the same machine.

I have 1 friend (remote user) from different continent, streaming on a 65 inch LED TV. Another friend (remote user) from within the same country streaming on a 65 inch OLED TV.

  • Will setting up the maximum upload bandwidth to 5Mbps give 1080p quality?
  • Just in case the video has to be transcode, is my processor good enough to handle the workload for 2 concurrent users?
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I currently am remote streaming 4 direct plays and server upload speed max is only showing 1.5MBps (12mbps)

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