Whats Your Plex Media Server Setup

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Basically just wondering what everyone is running.

I do know that this might be overkill, but it was such a great learning experience to work with enterprise grade hardware. I chose to do this because I wanted to get Plex off my gaming desktop onto something a little more power efficient. The desktop was pulling upwards of 550W at full load and would stutter with anything more than one 1080p stream. This new server under full load pulls about 340W (According to the AVR. Yes battery backup too. Plex can never go down) and can handle 4+ 4K streams, both local and remote.

Also I called the server Skynet

############     Skynet     ###########
Server: HP Proliant DL180 G6
CPU(S): Dual Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5645 @ 2.40GHz
Memory: 16GB ECC @ 1333MHz
Ethernet interface 0: 1Gb/s
Ethernet interface 1: 1Gb/s (Bonded for max of 2Gb/s)
Storage: 12x3TB SCSI Raid 5 array (36TB Total, 33TB Useable)

OS: Fedora


############     Clients     ###########
#          (never all at once)         #

Local:
     4 Phones
     2 Chromecast Ultras
     1 Tablet
     3 Computers

Remote:
     1 Chromecast
     1 Phone
     1 Computer

All in all I have learned a lot and Plex is helping to cut the cord. IPTV is on the horizon for us when our cable contract ends. XTeVe is set up for Plex and has been tested.

I don’t know where to post this really, and I don’t know if the Plex forum even has a spot for this kind of content.

Also the android app is garbage. send me back, gimme my library view again

P.S. I know how to exit VIM :wink:

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The server is a Dell server with an Intel Xeon X5650 @ 2.37GHz
18 GB Ram
1 Gbit Ethernet
OS Win 10
Internal HD is just a 250 gig.

All media on a Synology DS2413+ 12 bay RAID with ten 5tb drives
Total stoarage available - 39.3 TB
Storage used - 27.6 TB

Don’t pay too much attention to clients, I have an Apple TV box and a firestick local and I have about a dozen folks that share the library that use all sorts of things. I think the most sharing ever done at one time was three or four streams. I don’t stream 4K because at my age I can’t tell the diff.

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SuperMicro Server
Dual Xeon 2630L-V2
32 GB ECC
1Gbit Ethernet
Ubuntu 18.04

Storage consists of a variety of disks totaling 42 TB. I use MergerFS for drive pooling.

Plex currently runs as a VM on the above machine with 12 VCPU’s and 8 GB RAM using Ububtu 16.04 as the OS.

I also have a pair of HD Homerun Connect TV Tuners for OTA viewing/recording.

Generally, I only have 2-3 clients running at the same time so server load is minimal .

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Ryzen 2700x
32 GB RAM
Windows 10 Pro

Storage 23 HDD´s with total 220 TB. :star_struck:

3 local and 40 external Users.

The current maximum of 25 simultaneous streams and 15 transcodes works smoothly. Record is even at 19, but there it was 100% loaded, but most of it runs via direct stream or direct play.

A 2nd server is currently being planned. As soon as enough users are found for the financing. :sunglasses:

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Plex newby here so this journey may be entertaining to you power users.

It all started with cutting the cord to save some $. Side benefit it to hopefully be able to stream to the camper both movies ( yet to be copied and put into library ) and to stream live TV from the server to camper.

Streaming to 2 Apple 4K in the house. 1 iPhone in camper.

1st attempt was a WD MyCloudHome NAS which was a fail due to not enough CPU power. Returned.

Not wanting to spend a lot of $ I set up in the last few days.

Mac Mini 1.4, 4GB, 500 GB spinning rust HD. Open box at BB $299.
Ext storage is a G-Tec 4 TB non USB powered drive with a WD Red drive pre installed. On sale $159. Total $550 including the HDHomerun Duo.

All Plex activités are on the External except for the App. it self.

OSX 14.3 and whatever the current versions of Plex server/player are.

Also giving Channels a try both server and player to see how it compares for the live/DVD portion.

What a journey it has been so far with much to learn about. Thanks to the forums and the people that share their knowledge to help us just getting started.

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How are you hooking up those drives? And did you find the processor more helpful in handling multiple steams or the RAM? I’ve got six single threaded processors and you have 8 dual threaded.

Oh, and regarding that 220 terabytes. HOLY #&$^!!!

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8 directly on the mainboard and the rest via 2 USB 3.0 cases with 10 slots each. Everything has been running smoothly for more than 2 years.
Until 6 months ago I had an old Intel 4770K in my system and the difference to the new Ryzen is really big. I can only recommend it, although I would still wait for the new Ryzen 3000 if there is no urgent change, they will surely make a big jump in performance again, especially if the number of cores increases again as announced. Price/performance for a Plexserver you are in my opinion unequalled.

With RAM I have to admit that I now often get up to 80-90% with 20+ streams. There I will make surely again an update on 32 GB, waits now however still somewhat, the prices are to fall still further :slight_smile:

Sadly the space is getting too small again. I just started to load 4k movies and series. This really needs a lot of memory, but since I will get a Gbit line in summer, the 4k streaming will be possible.

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