Weekly Share-Your-Build Post

This is part of a weekly series of Share-Your-Build Post threads for everyone to share their builds, discuss different server solutions, and share knowledge and resources! Please be polite and helpful to beginners just getting started out, and we want to be as welcoming as we can to newcomers to this community.

Common info to share can include:

  • Plex server make/model
  • CPU and GPU info
  • Storage solution info
  • Plex add-on info (Radarr, Sonarr, Docker, etc.)
  • other configuration info

Anyone who posts good starter guides, FAQs, and/or wikis may get their links added to the sidebar so the rest of the community can benefit!

Cheers!

  •  Chahk   ( @chahk@beehaw.org ) English
    2•11 months ago

    My Plex server is a small Intel QuickSync box in a 2U chassis in my rack.

    • Intel Celeron G4900
    • ARCTIC Alpine 12 LP cooler
    • 12GB DDR4 RAM
    • Gigabyte H310M-A board
    • 400W PSU from EVGA
    • Mellanox ConnectX-3 10 GbE network card
    • no discreet GPU, relying on Celeron’s built-in UHD 610 iGPU
    • iStar D-213-MATX chassis

    It’s running PlexPass edition on Ubuntu 22.04. This little beast can do 15 simultaneous (non-4k) hardware transcodes without breaking sweat.

    The actual media is on a 50TB UnRaid server that also hosts various media managers like Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Bazarr, etc. I also have another Plex server instance running in a Docker container for direct playing of 4k content, because QuickSync can’t quite handle that.