# Upgrade from raspberry?

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**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-windows\
**Created:** [March 30, 2021, 11:38pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/upgrade-from-raspberry/705824 "2021-03-30T23:38:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![manuel\_tonani\_gmail\_com](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7c8e57/32.png) [@manuel\_tonani\_gmail\_com](https://forums.plex.tv/u/manuel_tonani_gmail_com)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 11:38pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/upgrade-from-raspberry/705824/1 "2021-03-30T23:38:21Z")

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Hi  
I’m seriously considering to upgrade my server Plex from raspberry pi 4 4gb ram(raspbian) to a Lenovo t430s win 10 128 GB SSD 8 GB RAM intel i7 3th gen  
Graphic card intel hd 4000

Mainly because I’ve set up a library of anime and many of them are hi10p(mkv 10bit h.265 ass subtitles)  
Obviously they trigger transcoding and raspberry literally die  
I’ve a total of 34000 episodes and more than 6000 trigger transcoding  
In a scenario of 2 concurrent transcoding at 720p max 1080p  
The t430s is fine? Is it ok to upgrade?  
I’m asking because is not a short task to rebuild an entire library  
Last…I’ve currently mapped the data 9.1 tb in 4 external HDD connected on a powered hub usb which is connected to one usb3.0 of raspberry  
Thanks you in advance

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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2021, 12:06am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/upgrade-from-raspberry/705824/2 "2021-03-31T00:06:15Z")

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Check if you can find one with a newer generation Intel Chip (preferably Kaby Lake / 7th gen or newer; doesn’t need to be an i7). This will enable you to use hw-accelerated transcoding.  
[https://support.plex.tv/articles/115002178853-using-hardware-accelerated-streaming/](https://support.plex.tv/articles/115002178853-using-hardware-accelerated-streaming/)

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If you’re willing to go with a Linux based system you might be able to migrate your current server to the new system.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 12:06am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/upgrade-from-raspberry/705824/3 "2021-06-29T00:06:52Z")

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