What’s your media server setup?

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skewt

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#2505531 15-Jun-2020 23:24

Was running a small pc on windows 10 using USB based hard drives and DrivePool software
but after my recent 5 drive corruption at the same time.. I am in the process of switching to unRaid and Dockers

Using intel quicksync for plex transcoding
6tb Parity
4tb X2
5tb X2
500gb NVME cache

driller2000

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#2505537 16-Jun-2020 00:39

Unraid (71TB) + Nvidia Shield and MiBox + Both using Kodi

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#2505553 16-Jun-2020 02:25

gehenna:

UnRAID + Plex Docker + multiple TV's with a variety of WebOS, Apple TV, and Android TV Plex apps.

My Unraid Server is a Ryzen 2600 with 16GB of Ram so it hums along very nicely.

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#2505563 16-Jun-2020 07:11

Handle9:
gehenna:

UnRAID + Plex Docker + multiple TV's with a variety of WebOS, Apple TV, and Android TV Plex apps.

+1

My Unraid Server is a Ryzen 2600 with 16GB of Ram so it hums along very nicely.

Windows 10 with a Ryan 2700x and 48gb ram.... #flex. One Ubuntu vm use 16gb of ram and has all my docker containers (sickrage tautuilli, Nextcloud etc.)

I did have my Plex on that vm, but on the baremetal it uses the flu.

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#2505567 16-Jun-2020 07:19

davidcole:

Windows 10 with a Ryan 2700x and 48gb ram.... #flex. One Ubuntu vm use 16gb of ram and has all my docker containers (sickrage tautuilli, Nextcloud etc.)

I did have my Plex on that vm, but on the baremetal it uses the flu.

Maybe a Ryzen and even a GPU? 🤣🤣

On windows chrome will have consumed 47.5GB of that ram.

davidcole

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#2505568 16-Jun-2020 07:29

Handle9:
davidcole:

Windows 10 with a Ryan 2700x and 48gb ram.... #flex. One Ubuntu vm use 16gb of ram and has all my docker containers (sickrage tautuilli, Nextcloud etc.)

I did have my Plex on that vm, but on the baremetal it uses the flu.

Maybe a Ryzen and even a GPU? 🤣🤣

On windows chrome will have consumed 47.5GB of that ram.

Yeah i couldn't remember the model of the gpu. DIdn't originally plan to have a discrete GPU, but happy now that I did. Pity hyper-v can't pass through the GPU or I would have left plex on ubuntu/docker.

Mantis

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#2505630 16-Jun-2020 10:14

FreeNAS box for storage then a Dell R620 running ESXi with an Ubuntu VM running docker for Plex/Sonarr/Radarr etc.

Usually only have 1 or 2 streams from Plex so CPU usage isn't too much of an issue.

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#2505690 16-Jun-2020 11:46

HP Microserver Gen8 + Windows Server 2016 Plex

RAM: 16GB ram

CPU: Xeon E3 1265L (More than enough most people can direct stream to us so transcoding is not a priority)

Storage: 21TB+12TB = 33TB Storage in X2 drobos

DVB-T PCI-e card

NOT A PERFECT SETUP looking at changing to a supermicro chassis with loads of drive bays but $$$

Aborto

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#2505698 16-Jun-2020 12:16

SirHumphreyAppleby:

I'd list this as a disadvantage. Kodi seems to make a mess of things.

It can be a massive mission to get it all sorted, I don't rely on the automatic scraping in Kodi/Emby etc, I agree they make way too much of a mess of things.

Use something like TinyMediaManager to do the scraping, you can check its correct, make changes and then save the results to NFO files that Kodi and Emby will read instead of scraping themselves.

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