I am currently running TrueNas and running plex on it. However, I always run into these update issues on TrueNas where plex can never update to the latest update. I absolutely hate this. What do you guys think about running the server on my regular windows 10 and accessing the file from my NAS? Any downsides to this? I do use plex media player outside mostly to listen to songs when im on the drive and occasionally watch movies. I really appreciate your guys’ advise. Thank you so much!
plenty of people do this and only use the NAS for storage. My server runs on a Mac and content is on a Qnap. The server on computer will not be able to detect changes on the NAS to run scans automatically but you can just set it to scan on a schedule. or manually scan after you add new stuff.
This is required regardless, as the “automatically detect changes” feature of Plex Media Server does not work on the FreeBSD that TrueNAS is based on. So even if the server does run direct on the NAS it wont see the new content here.
Of course if the OP went with TrueNAS SCALE (which is Linux-based) it would be different. They would also be running Plex as a Docker image then.
Thank you! So there is definitely no downside to this am I correct? No security issues or anything? I obviously do not think so as plex server would still be running securely on windows 10 and it’s simply accessing the files from NAS. I ask this only because somebody on a different forum told me my files are more exposed for attacks if I do it this way but logically, didn’t make sense so wanted to get it clarified.
You are correct. It does NOT automatically detect the changes on truenas. So it goes without saying, running plex server directly on windows 10 is probably the best way to do this.
