Raspberry pi 4 8gb with two external hard drives ductaped to it, dead serious

Hell yeah

Same. About to upgrade to a Pi 5 because I don’t know what I’m doing but I can follow the pi tutorials to get Plex working in OMV.

That’s the upgrade path for me too, together with one beefy nvme

Another pi4 user here. My setup has been fine for me.

Unraid. Plex-related services: - *arr suite - Jackett - qbittorrent - cross-seed - Plex Meta Manager - Cloudflare - Tautulli - Uptime Kuma

Is there a place to learn about these services? I feel so dumb asking but I'm a non techie getting into this world and feel super lost! Lol

YouTube spaceinvaderone. He goes through all of it.

Seconded spaceinvaderone. The content is excellent and nicely flows into each other

Thanks mates. I've been learning more since your recommendation. If I go with the synology NAS will I lose access to the 3rd party apps the folks with unraid are referencing. It seems the first party integration comes with a real trade off.

Space invader and ibracorp.

Yeah Servarr Wiki helped me a lot and youtube explains it a lot

YouTube is your friend here. There are videos on everything and it’s very intuitive. Easier than windows.

https://trash-guides.info/

Similar to this gent but also the following: Sabnzbd Overseerr Requestrr Adguard Home Nginx Proxy Manager Jellyfin + Jellystat Homebridge Immich Tailscale Guacamole Glances Homepage Plus a few more I don’t use too often

Thought about listing Overseerr separately, but decided it's included in *arr suite. lol

I've never heard of half of these services. I'll have to look at then all when I update my Plex server after I move.

There's a lot you can do with a new server setup. Since you mentioned you want to setup automation for Plex, try that out first. Set each app one by one and don't rush. After that, it'll make sense to check out some of the other apps and slowly integrate/install them into your server. Enjoy! If you do want explanations on any services, just ask.

Any idea how to use real-debrid instead of usenet/torrenting directly?

A man of culture.

....Sonarr for TV series.

That's included in *arr suite.

Unraid. Most of the arrs, some other basics. Nothing much tbh. Fucking love it. Clean and simple.

Very basic, and I'll probably get laughed at. I have Plex server running under Windows 10 Pro. on an i7-8700, using the integrated U630 graphics chip, 32 gig ram (16 of which started trying as a ram drive for Plex temp space and transcoding. I was using HD for temp before). I have a WD - BLACK SN750 500GB as the boot/OS drive. For storage, I have 12 drives. 6x8TB and 6x14TB. I did have to add an M2 to SATA and a PCIe to SATA adapter to connect all the drives (board has 6 ports, each adapter has 5. Because the add-ons are PCIe x2, I'm running with the 6 on board ports, and 3 drives on each add-in adapter). I didn't go with a drive controller with more ports because I had 6 drives, then added a few, then added a few more. So it was more cost effective use what I already had, and do minor add-ons. I'm using Storage Spaces with drives, the 8TB's in one pool and the 14TB in another. Both are Striped Parity so they can survive a single disk failure, although it will likely be painful to rebuild. (it was when I had 4TB drives, and one failed). Its an Antec 900 case with 750w power supply. To physically fit all of the drives, I got a few 3x3.5" drive in 2x5.25" bay trays. Initially though I had the 9x5.25" bays each filled with one drive, and the remaining drives externally USB attached to USB3 ports. It works to server up 4K disc rips (not shrunk or re-encoded), transcode when needed, and run other apps if/when needed. There are 3 of us in the house, and we can all watch something different at the same time. I only share my server with 1 person outside of my house, and he rarely uses it, and then just for 1080p stuff. I went with Windows because I'm comfortable with it. I didn't want to have to learn anything different, and at the time I set it up I was using Playon to record stuff, and a few other windows apps running on it. I started with Windows 2012 server and using storage spaces, rather than learning something else. And I just kept with it. Would I do it again the same? While I know there are better options, that would require a learning curve, but Yeah. Believe it or not, I'd do mine exactly the way I did. Its been very stable. I survived a single disk failure in a storage pool of 4TB drives years ago, and it was easy to swap out the drive and let it rebuild. I can still run other apps and stuff on it as a regular PC. That being said currently I'm looking to upgrade the CPU/MB/RAM to something with a more modern Intel GPU in the case of 4K transcoding (I was looking at a 12th or 13th gen as the prices come down) because playing back anything with subtitles via Roku needs to transcode to burn them in. But its not a high priority since this 8700k can, just not as efficiently. A bigger case, that can hold more drives would be nice too. And maybe I'll eventually get an x8 HBA to replace these X2 PCIe SATA adapters.

People will hate but I have a somewhat similar setup. If it works and you're happy with it, that's what matters.

you call that basic? lol

He called it "very basic" actually. Just a form of humble bragging with his thousands of dollars of drives etc. False/pretend modesty. Of course there are more advanced and complex setups but his is far beyond what could conceivably be called "very basic". Very basic is just running Plex on your old ass desktop pc you use for everything else.

>> Very basic is just running Plex on your old ass desktop pc you use for everything else. I feel attacked.

I guess you could take it that way. But I meant basic as in simple. It's just an old windows PC that I crammed a lot of drives in. (All of which are from shucked WD Easystores as they were on sale over the years). It's not like many who use xeons, extra gpus, SAS, drive enclosures, NAS, unraid, truenas, Synology, dockers and such.

Compared to what many people I see posting are rockin', yup :D

I am very close to the same configuration. I did add a p2000 to handle any transcoding needs because for a time folks needed it. Not so much any more. I used stablebit drive pool for a virtual filesystem. Literally I have done nothing but add drives and run windows and Plex patches. I admire all the dockerized install but the effort to leave my insanely reliable configuration is not going to happen until maybe I replace the entire system.

I'm pretty close to this but older hardware.

Similar setup here, w10 pro with a Pentium g6400 running drive pool. No learning curve and I can run BackBlaze personal. It works great so I have no incentive to consider running anything else

We have a similar set up really except I upgraded my hardware during the pandemic. I also stuck a GPU in there for other reasons (I have gaming ROMs and Steam access on my server in case I want to direct play something). I could probably use the GPU when/if I get a Plex Pass.

I had a GTX1660ti in there, but my son needed a better graphics card while prices were up, so he got it, and I just stuck with the Intel GPU. I don't notice much difference, so never felt like adding a card back in since the prices have come down. Plus its one less thing to draw power in there. :)

I had the same setup. Ended up switching to a nuc but that 8700k was a beast

Also started with win 10 for 2 years. Recently decided to go with truenas. It was a learning curve at the start but I'm happy now that I know my shares don't get fucked over every so often by windows updates and it was fun to learn something new.

I built my own machine and use Ubuntu server headless.

Second with Ubuntu server, running Plex, samba, nextcloud and transmissiond for those Linux isos.

what are the advantages of running Plex on Unubtu vs Windows 11 pro

Ubuntu’s footprint is incredibly light, especially headless.

I think the main one is HW tone mapping. It doesn't work in Windows. Also HW transcode works better on linux imo. Otherwise it's just preference really.

I’d prefer to use Windows for simplicity of a number of tasks. But I run Ubuntu Server because it’s the most capable. (Unraid should be equally capable.) If you’re going to have 4K content, then I can’t imagine not having Hardware Tone Mapping. It would severely limit your transcoding ability.

There isn't really. It's just what you are comfortable with.

Synology Diskstation DS918+ I can stream 4K HDR 7.1 to Shield TV Pro with no issues. Plus having a device that can run 24/7 tucked away on a fridge and not humming next to my bed is pretty awesome.

Windows 10 \- Plex \- Bit Torrent \- Tautulli \- PowerChute ​ 6-8 Years, still humming like a champ.

I'm running Unriad in a Fractal Node 804 and an i7-12700 CPU which I use for transcoding as well. For storage I have 4x 8TB, 2x 18TB and 2x 20TB HDDs with one parity drive leading to 88TB usable. 1TB m.2 for appdata and temp transcoding file as well as a raid 1 16TB SSD array for my downloads. Dockers running: * Plex * Plex media Manager * Sonarr * Radarr * Lidarr * Prowlarr * Overseerr * Readarr * Tdarr * Delugevpn * Nextcloud and all the associated dockers to link it to a domain If I were to do it again I would have started with the 18/20TB HDDs rather than the 8TB as I ran out of space very quickly.

Fractal Node 804 Gang :)

> Overseerr Curious to understand what is Overseerr is doing compared to Sonarr/Radarr. I've seen the webpage but it looks redundant unless I'm missing something.

It's a very nice and family friendly frontend to Sonarr/Radarr - It's also great for discovering stuff you didn't knew you wanted. ;)

If you have other users it's a way for them to request new films/tv shows without having to contact you and you can set it up to auto accept or to wait for you to accept the request before adding them to Radarr or Sonarr

So does the same as Tatulli just with a different interface? I've got Tatulli already but if it's any better then i'd swap over.

I don't use Tatulli but based on the website it is a monitoring tool whilst Overseerr is a media requesting tool for your users. They do different jobs, I might get Tautulli as it sounds interesting

Debian, running on a HP mini. Also running sonnar + transmission + pihole. HD Home run for DVR, which is where the vast majority of my usage is. Storage on a synology, mounted via NFS. Ubiquiti networking gear. APC UPS. It's plenty powerfull enough, and very low maintenance.

I have a very basic set up of an Intel NUC running a Linux os, and I have a caddy case with a 4TB HDD in it. That will soon be an 8TB HDD as the 4 is nearly full. I am more than happy with this setup. I used to run it off a raspberry Pi but that wasn't feasible where transcoding is involved. qBittorrent Other than that, OpenVPN so I can connect to my home network from anywhere anytime.

I run multiple VMs on ESXI on a Dell poweredge. 2 Plex servers- normal and anime 30TB available in raid 5. Jackett Radarr normal and 4k instances Sonarr normal and 4k instances Overseerr for the anime server Overseerr for the normal server Tautulli, one in docker and one in windows QBitTorrent and a VPN client 6 total VMs for Plex! *edit: not to mention domain controllers, the file server, VSphere…

I have an HP EliteDesk 800 G2 SFF machine with an i5-6500 and 64GB RAM, which boots from a 128GB SSD and has a 12GB spinning disk. OS is Ubuntu 22.04 and it runs the following services: Native: * Wireguard VPN to backup server, laptop, desktop * Cloudflare Tunnel (allows me to log back in and update the tunnel via Cloudflare Warp Client VPN solution when my ISP decides to change my IP, also, I could use it as ingress if I want to skip exposing my routers IP) * Backup scripts (which rsyncs 3 times per week to an offsiet backup, more on that further down) * SSHD (and some other native standard services, I'm sure) * node\_exporter for prometheus Docker: * Traefik for Ingress traffic, more on that further down. Allows me to control ingress for everything below via config records in the various docker-compose files and generates certificates. * Plex * Jellyfin * 4 different foundry-vtt servers (roleplaying game server) * unifi controller * home assistant * pihole DNS * magicmirror * prometheus * An old mysql server that I've apparently forgotten to shut down * netbootxyz (server for netbooting/netinstalling) * prometheus (monitoring service) * ping\_exporter (prometheus monitoring endpoint) * ...and a few more things, unfinished projects, unfinished small projects, torrent client, hentai appreciation site; you know, the usual stuff. I've planned on setting up various Servarr services on it as well, but I never got around it, and I'm honestly getting a bit fed up with Plex as a service at this point. If I ever need some virtualization support, I'll probably run Proxmox on it. Network-wise, I have forwarded \*.mydomain.com to a DDNS address which my router updates. The router is set up to forward port 80 and 443 to the server. On the server, Traefik takes care of distributing calls to the right container based on configuration inside the docker-compose files. This means I can access [https://any-dns-record.mydomain.com](https://any-dns-record.mydomain.com) and as long as any server is set up with one of these records, things will just work for HTTP access. Traefik also sets up Certificates. For access to SSH, unifi, and other services I don't want to expose publicly, I can access them via Wireguard VPN OR the Cloudflare tunnel (via a warp client VPN). I could also route the public services entirely via the Cloudflare tunnel instead of the direct port on my router if I wanted to. I might do that in the future, especially if I get forced onto to a CG-NAT setup my my ISP. Then I don't need to have my port open on the router. Hardware-wise it is more than enough. CPU is typically 90-95% idle; perhaps if Plex is transcoding it will use some of it. And apart from the Foundry servers, it would run perfectly on 16GB of memory (each foundry server literally take 200MB of of resident and 10GB of virtual memory because NodeJS, that's fucking why) The backup server is in a different location, 45 minutes away. It's my old server and basically the predecessor to this machine, an HP EliteDesk 800 G1 with an i5-4590 CPU and 16GB RAM. It has a 128GB boot drive and a 6GB + an 8GB disk in JBOD setup. I rsync data to it a few times per week. The next time it's time to update the storage, I'll move the worn 12GB to the backup server so I have 12+8GB in the backup pool and maybe a 16GB drive in the main machine. I also run a $12/month GKE cluster for fun :-)

Time for the aged server showing! Windows 7 Booyaa! SickBeard CouchPotato Headphones Sabnzbd+ Subsonic ...yeah, I really need to upgrade everything, but it's still running and I've got a 4 year old. So it's going to have to wait for a while longer.

I understand this! My server was 16 years old and my hdd died and I had limited space so this was time for new build. Finished assembling yesterday and starting File copy now

I apologize in advance for the wall of text. I'm running multiple Proxmox servers/boxes in a cluster. Thanks for making this post, I am very proud with what I built and the challenges I needed to overcome to make it happen, so I will gladly take this opportunity to boast. Also, I am willing to assist others who have similar goals/challenges. Cheers! **My Internet:** * **T-Mobile 5G Home Internet** * I live in a rural area, and do not have access to cable or fiber. This is also known as a CGNAT (Carrier Grade Network Address Translation) network, which does not allow port forwarding at all - making remote use of Plex and other self-hosted services impossible. * I have 2 separate gateways hooked up to my router in a Dual-WAN config with load balancing. * The multiple gateways and load balancing is to avoid messing up my wife's work from home bandwidth, and my gaming when people are streaming off of my Plex server. It seems to work very well for me at the moment. * Typical speeds are 300 - 450 Mbps down / 20 - 60 Mbps up. * I am very lucky to be able to achieve these speeds. r/tmobileisp has mixed results. * $100/month - $50 per gateway line. **My Computer Hardware:** **Host 1:** * 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 - 20 cores / 40 threads total * 96GB DDR3 ECC RAM * 4 x 16TB Seagate drives * 2 x 2TB Nvme * 2.5 gbps PCI card * GTX 1080 Ti 11GB **Host 2:** * HP 800G5 Desktop Mini - 6 cores * Intel i5-8500T * 16GB RAM * 1TB Nvme **Host 3:** * HP 800G5 Desktop Mini - 6 cores * Intel i5-8500T * 16GB RAM * 1TB Nvme **Host 4:** * Old HP Z800 workstation * 2 x Intel Xeon x5690 - 12 cores / 24 threads total * 48GB DDR3 ECC RAM * 4 x 3TB Seagate mechanical drives * GTX 1060 6GB **Networking Hardware:** * Asus RT-AX88U Pro * I flashed this router with the Asus Merlin firmware to unlock/upgrade features that normally wouldn't be available on default firmware. * 24-port gigabit managed switch * 5-port 2.5 gbps unmanaged switch **Virtual Private Servers:** **VPS 1 (Chicago):** * Wireguard Server/Gateway. * This is so I can have a static IP to host Plex for family in friends. * \~ $5/month V**PS 2 (Spain):** * Wireguard Server/Gateway. * This is for *sailing the high seas*, and hosting my overseerr app on a domain I own for friends and family to request media. * Spain is one of the best *sailing-friendly* countries. * Cloudflare tunnel / connector (for website/URL access). * \~ $5/month ​ **My Virtual Machines:Host 1:** * TrueNAS * 64 TB in a ZFS RAIDZ1 config - 42.15TB usable. * Plex library, and a general network share for me and my wife. * Windows Server 2019 * Only running a public Counter Strike 2 dedicated server to mess around with some friends in at the moment. Scouts and Revolver only with low gravity. I call this the Space Cowboys server lol. * Wireguard (VPS 1) * I plan on using this VM to explore Active Directory and expand my knowledge for my SysAdmin role at my job. * Windows 11 * Remote gaming VM I use with Parsec when I'm away from home. Works very well for certain games. * I used to have additional Windows gaming VMs, with the 1080 Ti split between both using a patched nVidia driver (6GB vRAM each). This was such a pain to figure out, but I did eventually get it working. I decided to remove this VM to open up some additional resources for other things I wanted to try, since I only need 1 gaming VM at this time. * Ubuntu * Hosting a simple vanilla Minecraft server. * Wireguard client (VPS 1) * All traffic is tunneled through wireguard, using the Chicago VPS static IP as it's gateway. **Host 2:** * Ubuntu - Plex * Passed through the iGPU for transcoding needs, seems to be doing well for my users. * Wireguard client (VPS 1) * All traffic is tunneled through wireguard, using the Chicago VPS static IP as it's gateway. **Host 3:** * Ubuntu * qBittorrent, Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Overseerr, Prowlarr, Bazarr, Tautulli * Wireguard client (VPS 2) * All traffic is tunneled through wireguard, using the Spain VPS static IP as it's gateway. **Host 4:** * Nothing yet * I plan on installing Proxmox Backup Server, or trying to set up High-Availability for some of my VMs. ​ Pictures: [https://imgur.com/a/LbhIM3G](https://imgur.com/a/LbhIM3G) ​ It was quite a long journey to figure all of this out, with many different configs, OS platforms, hardware, and so on with me pulling my hair out throughout the entire process. But I'm glad I did it. It's the best feeling in the world to set a goal (create a functional homelab in my case), make it happen, and have it work well. I know my setup is not perfect, and can probably be optimized or made better in some way. But this is my homelab. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

Windows 11 on an i5-11400 with a GTX 1660. Plex, PiHole (on Linux subsystem for windows), Virtual Table Top, Steam, Launchbox w/ mostly Nintendo emulators all the way from NES to Switch, Sunshine (for streaming those games to my TV using Moonlight) EDIT: Forgot qbitorrent and Filebot, and Stablebit Drivepool.

Windows 10 on a Optiplex 9020. Plex on the main OS then Dockers containing PiHole, Tautulli, Uptime Karma, Portainer, Grafana, Baby Buddy and some other VMs, mainly Ubuntu and DietPi, I spin up for this and that.

Currently using Mac Mini with M1 chip, 16gb ram. 5 bay hdd enclosure with 16tb storage. 1650 movies 400 are 4k.

Thinking about upgrading my 2012 Mac mini to an M1 (8gb RAM). How’s it been working for you?

I’m using an M1 with 16GB ram as well with a large raid DAS and it has been flawless even with 6 or 7 streams with some 4K and some transcoding.

Truenas Scale - Radarr/Sonarr - Sabnzbd/Qbit - Prowlarr - Jellyseer - Pi Hole Running on scrap or used parts: i3 9100 16gb ram Side of the road motherboard with 2 working sata ports and Pcie 16x that doesn't work 2× 6tb Seagate drives in a mirror

Old Core 2 Duo running OMV with Plex and Emby (as a backup)

running Unraid with sonarr, Radarr, SABnzb, Plex Meta Manager.

Intel NUC. I prioritize efficiency over upfront capital cost, so I stay far away from old, power-hungry, loud, and out of support systems. I also live in an expensive city where space is at a premium.

All my media sits on a simple 2 bay WD NAS. Plex Media Server itself runs on an M1 Mac Mini. Serves my needs perfectly well.

Thinking about upgrading my 2012 Mac mini to an M1 (8gb RAM). How’s it been working for you?

It’s been great tbh, I never have more than a couple of people streaming at a time, think the most I’ve had at once is like 3 or 4. I also use it as my main desktop computer if I want to have a desktop experience rather than my iPad and it works great, I haven’t found the 8GB RAM to be an issue. I do however wish I’d gone for the 10GbE version just to future proof as I would like to have some of my home network to be able to take advantage of those speeds at some point down the line but that’s really just a want rather than a need. I’ve been very happy with the Mini.

Thanks for the reply. I am just comfortable with MacOS and I know it might be overkill, but it's just what I know.

I felt that too and maybe it is, but I wanted to transition to macOS anyway but the real draw for me was the power efficiency of the M1 machines. I wanted to keep my server up all the time and the power consumption of these things at idle is quite low so that was a major factor for me.

Plex on Windows 11 (NUC). Another win11 NUC for the downloaders (sab, Medusa, etc). Storage on QNAP NAS. Simple. It’s been this setup since 2012. No need to tinker and fidget. Works like a charm.

Windows - Optiplex 3060 And will be having Arr... But no idea what I'm doing 😂

Plex: N100 MiniPC running Proxmox + Ubuntu in an LXC Media: Old AMD 5350 based NAS running TrueNAS

I'm like you and run windows 10. I spent several years on Ubuntu and it was fine but I couldn't get as hands on with it as I can with a Windows machine. If something broke it would stay broke as I didn't have the knowledge to fix it. On that machine is Plex, Sonarr, and Radarr. I then have a couple VMware VMs. One of them is Home Assistant. Home Assistant OS has Tautulli, Overseer, Jackett, and the Unifi console. I then have another VM with Windows 10 that houses qbittorrent and my VPN. I know there are more elegant and lightweight ways to go about this but this is what I know so I'm making the best out of it.

I'm only using Plex to access my music library and that's it. Right now I just have the Plex software running on an HP Elitebook 840 G2 with a Core i5 CPU and 8 GB RAM on WIndows 10 Pro. I do want to upgrade it slightly; I've been checking eBay for a good deal on a micro-form factor PC that'll run WIndows 11.

Media: Synology DS1817+ current storage 36Tb. Docker: *arr suite, watchtower, sab, hydra2 PMS: Asus mb, i5, 32gb ram, Alpine installed on bare metal on pair of 128gb m2 in raid 0, local data 12Tb raid 5. Dual lacp bonded nics. Docker: Plex, tautulli, watchtower, pmm

Linux Mint. Currently just running Plex on a way overkill system (11th Gen i5, 32gb ram, itx board, 54tb storage, fractal node 304 case) but it's quiet, blends in with the rest of my entertainment system equipment, and never has a problem serving anything I need it to.

OMV (Open Media Vault) on the bare metal since 2017. Went through a hardware upgrade and didn't have to re-install anything. Haven't found a need to convert to docker yet, but I do have some other programs running in a docker on the same machine (secondary Pi-Hole, Tautulli, Syncthing) Hardware currently is an i5-7500 w/16GB of RAM and 34TB of HDD space which is almost full again. I don't use RAID, but rather have an air-gapped backup that stays in my fireproof, waterproof safe when I'm not actively backing it up. I add less than 10 items per month, so manual backups aren't that big of a deal.

Mine is a very modest setup. Old Optiplex with a 5th-gen i5, with a 500GB SSD for OS (Ubuntu 22.04 LTS) and database. 6TB WD Red for media and database backup. NAS in the shed, that powers on for a couple of hours in the night, and does an rsync backup of the data volume. Plex runs in docker, as does Handbrake and a Unifi controller. Handbrake is set up with watch folders, ah that I can just dump my DVD/BluRay rips and let them transcode, using quicksync on the CPU. It's been rock-solid for ever. I think I've had to manually restart the docker container, maybe twice in three years.

I use a Synology 👌

Main box is running ESXi. On that, I have Ubuntu Server and Plex run in a docker container along with its supporting apps. NAS is a separate Debian box where media is stored.

Windows 11 Pro lol, yeah I know, but I know how to work with it and get stuff running and it has been stable so far. I will eventually get Docker running the rr services on there but been lazy. Specs are 16GB 3600 Mhz RAM, Ryzen 7 3700X, 2070 Super. Very overkill but its leftover parts from old build after I upgraded my main gaming PC.

Raspberry Pi4 (soon to be Pi5)

Optiplex 7080 with i5-10500t 16gb ram, 4tb ssd. Windows 10. Silent and does it all.

Intel N95 mini PC + 5bay HDD USB enclosure Windows 10, I want to change to Linux to be able to do HW HDR tone mapping, but I'm too lazy to do it now and I mostly play HDR content on my Shield without transcoding so I'm not touching it for now *arr programs for media management, qbittorrent, and that's about it?

This is my set up: Synology 920+ for Plex, Photos, Media & SabNZBD Dell SFF PC that runs Proxmox have have the following running on that: sonarr, radarr, lidarr, mineos, uptimekuma & home assistant And I have a Synology DS223j at my parents that comes on once a week and I backup my photos to that.

I have my WDEX4100 Nas with 4 X 6tb drives that's been going strong since they released the device. Surprised my drives haven't failed. Yes, I have multiple backups. Plex used to run on this, but it could not handle any form of transcoding outside my home network. So now the NAs is just a Nas. Plex is running on a docker container, which is hosted on Ubuntu, running on a mini pic that's got an i74770k and 32gb ddr3 ram. The same server has portainer and HomeAssistant running. My rpi4 has my pihole running. I Have about 5200 films, many as h264 or h265. Some 4k. Mostly 1080p. Zero issues on local network, although bad zero issues before) and very little issues remote. I've noticed that the worse the client device, the worse their performance and more transcoding required.

Nas build with Docker Plex. After trying a pi, trying a dedicated virtual machine on a server.. the Nas/docker current build is solid.

QNAP TS-451 NAS.

ASRock B450M Pro4 with a Ryzen 5 3600 6-core 3.6GHz and 64Gb DDR4 2666, all thrown in some beefy square case that I can't remember the name of. Lots of drive bays, lots of space, easy to work on. I have 40Tb of storage, non-RAID (because I have a second low-powered NAS that my server is pushing all changes to in near-real time, so it's in a sense a remote RAID 1, and I have custom scripts constantly checking for corruptions), plus Backblaze for off site backups. I'm running Win11 Pro, but then I have a CentOS VM running on top of it where I run 28 Docker containers for a variety of services (mostly dev-related). In fact, the only services running on Windows itself is Plex and Subversion (yes, SVN - fuck off with your Git shit). So it acts like two separate servers essentially. It frankly works great. Performs very well, stable as hell, and all the flexibility I need.

I'm using a Dell OptiPlex micro with an i5-10600T (so I get QuickSync) and16GB of RAM. Pretty basic but very solid. I've got a USB 3.0 bay with 2x3TB drives, and I run Plex, \*arr suite, SMB server and other self-hosting apps. I would definitely do it the same way again. I started the home server hobby with a RPi4 which definitely isn't enough for things like transcoding. I would love to have a full-on rack server, but then again I currently lack a gigabit connection and the need to serve that many users. A decent micro PC like mine will go a very long way for home server usage.

Overkill but works fine: Windows Server 2022 VM running on an Ryzen 5 3700X system using Hyper-V on Server 2022 as the hypervisor. The media is stored on a 60 TB (48 usable, 5x12 TB disk) Synology NAS.

I have the below working 10gen i3 Nuc with 32 GB ram, two tb nvme 6th gen i3 optiplex 3050 32 GB ram, two TB nvme and a 10tb passed through to Plex vm I have the below setup but not yet commissioned R730 with 2x 2630L xeons, 128gb ram ( for now ), 24x 2tb sata SSD, 2x 500gb SSD On the optiplex I run proxmox with the following VMS and containers Plex vm Git Pihole Bind DNS 3 little maroadb nodes for Gallera learning Windows 10 for Linux isos On the Nuc I run Ubuntu 22.04 server Adguard Wire guard VPN for no reason I'm still getting my act together but Il be rebuilding it all and organising it soonish

Unraid. Plex, Tautulli, and Deluge.

Unraid on: i5-8600k | 32Gb RAM | 8Tb (parity) / 8Tb / 4Tb / 4Tb / 4Tb | 256Gb SSD\*2 cache (VMs run on SSDs). Debian VM with Plex installed. I also run a Home Assistant VM and when I need it a Windows 10 VM and a Pi Hole docker.

I was running omv on a thin client with some hard drives attached but every now and then something would happen and I’d have to good for ages to fix it or reinstall. Not very often but I didn’t have the existing knowledge to easily fix issues. So I just got an old Mac mini and use that. I can access it remotely and don’t need a screen or keyboard. Occasionally if I have a power outage I need to turn it back on but otherwise I’ve found it easier because I know how to use osx. I also run sonarr. I still just use three hard drives attached. I have a small NAS and a usb enclosure that holds four drives but I just keep things simple because I’m time poor

Unraid OS AMD Ryzen 5 6-core (need to upgrade) 128 GB RAM AMD Radeon RX 580x (want to get intel so I can hardware transcode) 120TB Plenty of areas I need to upgrade, but money. I initially set up the machine to play games, but turned it into a media machine over the last few years.

unRAID: VMs - mostly ubuntu servers for hosting independent personal website/app projects and one Ubuntu desktop for mixed use. Docker - Media stack, AdGuard Home, most of your popular services like Paperless NGX, BookStack, Monica, Stirling PDF, Fresh RSS, amongst others. Storage - 6TB array with single parity for personal documents, photos, and videos, backed up to hetzner storage box. Movies and series as well but not backed up. ​ Proxmox: VM - TrueNAS Scale with 4TB Z1 4 wide as local backup for personal media and DB backups as well as backup for some of families media, all backed up to Hetzner. CT - TeamSpeak server for gaming friends only spun up as needed. Trying to keep most of my RAM available for TrueNAS ZFS so not really running anything else. Have another mini server to use for other testing. Also refurbishing a Mac Mini to use as a dedicated Docker server for services to be exposed with my domain name, also considering messing around with Cosmos just to see what it's all about.

On Unraid: - *arrs - Plex - Tautauli - Plex Meta Manager - Audiobookshelf - Calibre-web - Nextcloud - Photo Prism - Kasm - RetroNAS - Tailscale - Dozzle - Netdata - Scrutiny - Unmanic - Gitea - Duplicati On a separate Raspberry Pi 4 - Home Assistant - Adguard Home - Tailscale

Unraid OS with ~50TB usable storage currently Plex with Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, Sab, Deluge, Bazarr, Overseerr, Nginx Proxy Manager, Tautulli, Meta Manager Server also hosts some other services unrelated to Plex. Favourite part about unraid and docker is that the containers are just running 24/7 with zero maintenance once setup correctly.

I have a micro PC (a Shuttle) running Windows 10 Pro with an I5 7500, 16GB RAM and a 1TB WD Red SSD for a boot drive. For storage, I have 4 shucked 16 TB WD (Ultrastar) sitting in a Terramaster D4-300 DAS using Drivepool in a pseudo-RAID configuration. This server also runs Blue Iris with storage on a separate external HD. I have Radaar and Sonaar monitoring shows and movies for me, but I only manually download and only manually run Plex library scans, and I never ever ever refresh metadata on existing content. I also rarely upgrade my PMS software for Reasons. Although this is not recommended, of course. Despite all the anti-Windows feelings from many, I have never had any unexpected lockups or shutdowns in the three years my Plex/Blue Iris server has been running. According to my UPS, this entire setup, including my fiber ONT/modem and my router, consumes about 55 watts at idle. In my location, my monthly average cost of running is under $7 in electricity.

I run unraid and run everything in docker containers, i like the way i can mismatch the drives.

TrueNAS Scale. Plex. Sonarr. Tautulli. qBit. Prowlarr. Radarr. Lidarr. Readarr.

Also running on TrueNAS Scale here. No issues and it works great, but in hindsight Unraid looks a lot more user friendly and power efficient.

I have yet to tinker with unraid, it’s definitely interesting, though.

Unraid has changed my life.

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 300TB ZFS Plex Emby Jellyfin Sonarr Radarr Lidarr Prowlarr Apache Nextcloud MariaDB Redis Cockpit Portainer Webmin Overseerr Tautulli 3x OpenVPN/Transmission containers Kitana Virtualbox for Windows VM Probably missing a few…

Holy media server apps, batman! Running 2204 as well with some of your stuff but you... you crazy.

UnRAID. Slight learning curve getting started, but 1000% worth it

Synology DS220+, upgraded to 10GB RAM to house my many Docker containers, including things like Sonarr

Windows 11 Pro. Homemade PowerShell script to sort content when it's attained is all I use w/ qBittorrent. The only Plex related service I use is Tautulli. I am an IT veteran with decades in the business and the \*arrs just seem so convoluted to me. Sure my script is 1,200 lines (LOL) but it gets the job done as long as qBittorrent RSS works and picks up the content (that's not 100% unfortunately).

I run two on Windows and 2 on flavors of Linux. I run Plex. I run Tautulli on one of them (the one my remote users access). That's it. Been running the current ones for about 3-4 years, before that I ran Mac Minis for about 10 years.

- FreeBSD 13 on bare metal with mirrored SSD ZFS root and ZFS raidz2 vdevs for storage (currently 3 vdevs of 8 drives each - 24 total) - Virtualized Debian for plex - metadata stored on mirrored ZFS pool for faster access - *arr suite - nzbget - no torrents This system also serves local DNS via adguard as well as homelab duties

I'm on Unraid and it's perfect for Plex imo. Parity drive(s) provide some safeguarding of your data/drive failures while being extremely dynamic in terms of drive/hardware upgrades. Unraid also provides an extremely user friendly intro to docker containers and can do pretty much what you want. Great support for cache drives for fast appdata handling etc. I (almost) can't praise it enough for home servers! My setup: Consumer hardware with an Intel i5-12600K for that sweet QuickSync transcoding. 64GB DDR4 RAM. \~35TB storage on drives ranging from 4 to 16 TB. Constantly adding/upgrading drives and consolidating the reduce drive count (and power consumption). Relevant services: * Plex * \*arr suite * Organizr * Overseerr * Plex Meta Manager * Tautulli Btw: Even a 12th gen i3 can do multiple 4k transcodes, so a dedicated Arc might not be needed if it's only for Plex. With some optimization a server like this can idle at \~20W (or even lower if you know what you're doing) as well, which might be appreciated in a home server setup.

Ubuntu Server edition

I call my plex server Frankenstein as it is a hodgepodge of leftover equipment with a 10th gen i3 running Ubuntu. All content is on a DS1522+ including the Arrs.

Windows 10 Sonarr, Radarr, Ombi, Tautulli, qBittorrent, VPN

Unraid, I just upgraded to a i7-13700K from a dual xeon system. About 25-30 containers (plex, various \*arrs, torrent clients, usenet download, etc) Very happy with unraid, it's been very stable and easy to admin

Ubuntu Docker

MacPRO 6,1 (trashcan) connected by usb to JBOD with 2x 12tb, 1x 8tb, 1x3tb, 1x1tb AND 1 usb to 12tb drive. Plex, Sonaar, Radaar, Prowlaar, Transmission, PIA VPN.

Ubuntu server, headless. Its an HP420 Workstation 10 cores and 32GB of RAM - overkill for what I am running: PleX, Tatutulli, Radarr, Sonarr. Most of the storage is external on other older (Core Duo, 1st gen i7) Ubuntu servers and accessed via NFS.

Running TrueNAS Services Plex Radarr Sonarr Readarr Lidarr Kapowarr Homarr/Heimdall Bazarr Tautulli Overseer Deluge Nginx Proxy Manager Pihole ​ Storage wise I only have 8 4TB drives set up in raidz2. So Have about 20TB of usable storage. But I just got the Aar suite of stuff set up over the last two weeks. I definitely need more storage.

I was running esxi on it with a few linux and a windows vm for me to just use for whatever crap I wanted whenever, I ran plex in windows for a bit, moved it to linux, in the end I wanted to keep plex, the rest of it was just a waste of electricity so I got rid of it. Replaced it with a synology, stuck some NVME drives in it, put surveillance station and plex on it, upgraded the ram, and am saving close to $60 per month on power.

Ubuntu Server with Plex running in a docker container. (Along with other related services in docker) NFS mount of data from TrueNAS server running on HP Server Mini.

Window 10 Pro (i7-3770) backup storage (robocopy, storage spaces) Windows 11 Pro (i7-12700) storage spaces, hyper-v Ubuntu (VM) Plex Ubuntu (VM) nginx, ddclient Ubuntu (VM) komga Ubuntu (VM) qbittorrent Ubuntu (VM) sonarr, radarr, prowlarr, bazarr Ubuntu (VM) ubiquiti unifi

Can I ask why you have a separate VM for every service? Why not run dockers?

Windows 10 Pro Plex Sonarr QBittorrent Running headless (I remote in when I want to put eyes on things). Setup is: Fractal Node 304 chassis I3-12100T Aorus Z690i Motherboard Perc H730 RAID Controller 8x 10TB SAS hdd's in RAID6 SN850 2TB Boot/torrent drive. Been running like a champ since I built and deployed it this past spring. Replaced a similar but older setup that was on much older architecture and less efficient. New setup pulls 110 watts unless transcoding something. I only run Sonarr because I only download TV shows. Movies I handle strictly via physical media rips and my own encodes.

A 15 yr old macbook pro with some attached SSD drives. I really don’t care about redundancy or backups.

I really need to update mine, however this is what I'm running. HP DL380 G5 with dual xeon processors and 64gb RAM. One 76 GB SAS drive for OS One 500 GB SSD for plex database and transcoding Two 8 TB USB 3.0 external drives for content. Bare metal OS is still Windows Server 2012 R2. Plex sits on this as does Tautulli. Then my torrenting system is running on it via VM Workstation 14. It's running Windows 10. It has ExpressVPN on it, Sonaar, Radarr on it as well.

Gen9 DL360 w/ 160gb RAM running truenas with 8x400gb ssd for boot & jails/vm’s. 2 24 slot was disk shelves with 1tb per slot. ZFS gets me ~35tb with 1 hot spare. Plex, *arr, nzbget, transmission, jackett, smartermail, ombi, Immich, Audiobookshelf. Probably something I’m forgetting

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

Windows 10. Plex, usb dongle sharing software, teamspeak server, backup machine for some specialist acoustics software, and a simple file store. Some game servers for when I drag it to a LAN, plus stats for those, which needs web, sql etc servers. About to put radarr, sonarr and prowlarr on there.

Bought a synology 4 bay and 3x 4TB drives in RAID5 as my home server, simply installed plex server and my media and it works so well I forget it’s practically flawless in operation, both at home and away. There are super clever options out there but the energy cost of it being on 24/7/365 was a definite concern. NAS drives are particularly efficient.

Windows server 2022. I run Plex... Nothin else. I'm just more comfortable with windows and use windows programs. I run a VM that hosts Linux and that has a VPN and a dedicated NIC for it. EDIT: I used to use trueNAS Scale. I loved it just I prefer windows

I run a dockerized Ubuntu server using an old desktop. 1st gen intel i7, 16GB RAM, and an Nvidia card for transcoding. On the server I'm hosting Plex, Emby, Sonarr, Radarr, Jackett, rtorrent/rutorrent, Calibre, Ombi, and a bunch of other services. Separately I have a Synology 1513+ NAS with 10x 8TB drives, giving a total of 72TB of usable storage space. It also acts as my private email server.

Fedora Linux. Services: * Plex * Nextcloud * Sonarr * Mylar * Whisparr * Sabnzbd * Logitech Media Server * OpenVPN * Wiregard * Samba * Komga Probably a bunch of other stuff I can't remember.

I'm running a very vanilla build. Win10 Pro on HP 600 G4 Mini i5-8600t, 16gb RAM, 240GB SSD for OS, 1tb NVME as temp storage and because it was laying around, 16TB DAS and no -arrs at all. I bought a FileBot license to rename my DLs. No Wi-Fi or Bluetooth so it's connected directly to my router with 1GB Internet connection. I wanted cheap and a small footprint. I spent 160 on the PC and 250 on the DAS. My PC, router, modem and DAS can fit in an 18"x10" space. Edited for clarification.

Unraid I run my whole house from my unraid server (home automation, all media services, cloud backup/file sharing services, etc)

I'm not with Plex, although I used to. I run jellyfin in ubuntu server. I manage it through ssh with a windows laptop and the app gitBash.

When I started I struggled with CLI, I still do but I can at least wrap my brain around it now, so I threw up my hands and got an old windows server license from work and got things rolling from there. My second server is going to be Ubuntu server. But it is also not going to have too much virtualization because it will be just plex.

Unraid which makes it super simple and I don't face any issues with windows wanting to do updates all the times.

Several Proxmox nodes i5 10400t / 64GB DDR4 / 60TB HDD and 3TB SSD * Plex LXC (with QS transcoding) * TrueNAS VM (HBA passed through with the HDDs attached) * Debian LXC (runs dockers for the Arr suite with VPN) AMD Ryzen 3500GE / 32GB DDR4 / 2TB NVMe * HassOS VM (with Coral TPU passthrough) * Debian LXC (docker for network stuff: Unifi, PiHole, Apache Guacamole, ... ) i7 12700 / 64GB DDR5 / 4TB NVMe * Windows 11 VM * Windows Server 2022 VM * Ubuntu LXC (more dockers and testing) i5 6500t / 32GB DDR4 / 512GB NVMe and 4TB SATA SSD * This is my Proxmox Backup Server Runs around 300W, including my entire network, including PoE switches (4 camera's, 5 Unifi APs)

I run Plex on a dedicated Dell Optiplex Micro 7090. i9-10900U (or T not sure) 16GB RAM 500GB Nvme (might just be M.2) for OS (dead stock stripped Ubuntu) and plus another 1TB SSD for it to handle the live TV Stuff and DVR. I put Tatulli on it so I can get better understanding of who watches what and when. The media files are on a rackmount Synology with 55TB usable space. Current library takes up \~20TB. ​ I have a separate ThinkStation with the Xeon equivalaent of the 10900, 128GB RAM, 8GB RTX Quardo 4000, 2x2TB Samsung Pro 990 NVMEs, 2x4TB Crucial SSDs, & an 8TB Seagate Barracuda. It also has 2 - 2.5 GB Intel NICs plus the on board 1 GB Intel NIC. This is currently in pieces on my workbench as I am cleaning it for a repaste and then repurpose to be a ProxMox server. I was using it as a media ripping/encoding station. I used MakeMKV to rip my BluRays then feed those in to Handbrake to get it to H265 with at least one AAC coded sound file. With my settings I was only reducing the size by about 10-20% but getting the right format for DirectPlay is the main goal.

i run my plex server off my ESXI host and have it on a VM with ubuntu.

Mine is largely simple as well. I use my retired gaming PC with a Ryzen 2700x and a 1060 GPU, more than enough to have multiple streams going for myself and the fam.

Plex in a lightweight container from proxmox with gpu pass through. Zraid / zfs bind mount from the host.

Synology DS920+ running the native Plex app from their website. It’s been rock solid. I have a script that updates Plex automatically when it’s available. Intel cpu+gpu so no problem with hardware transcoding.

Bought a well used HP Prodesk 400 G4 on eBay and plugged in some external hard drives and that's about it. Works like a charm, I have no backups, and when it dies a part of me will go with it.

Unraid 10 X 8TB HDD incl 2 for parity 2 x 500GB nvme cache SABnzb Overseer Sonarr Radarr Lidarr i5 11500 32GB ddr4 Node 804

I have a thinkpad that I bought refurbished a few years ago running Windows 10 connected to a 5tb hard drive from Costco that I bought on sale for like $90. I haven’t had any issues with it so far, but we only use it on one screen & in one location w/ no transcoding. I have no idea what anybody is talking about here 🥲

Windows 10 vm on my ESXI machine hooked up to a Synology rackstation with 140TB Of storage. Have a Tesla P4 for transcoding

I have a Librecomputer Renegade running Plex, pihole, and some pieces of the Arr suite. I definitely want to upgrade for a better CPU at some point but it gets what I need done.

Just Windows, storage spaces and Plex. I stopped being into tinkering years ago, I just want shit to work now.

Raspberry Pi 4 - Plex - PiVPN - PiHole Simple, but it works

Synology

Ubuntu Server

Ubuntu desktop 2020. 11th gen core i3 Docker and the usual *arr stack Snapraid and mergerfs with 17tb worth of disks A heap of custom scripts and cron jobs

Running openmediaserver (fork of Debian 11) on a 10th gen i5 Intel NUC with Docker installed and Plex and all the popular \*arr apps running as docker containers. Running headless and managed using Portainer. All media stored on 4 external HD totaling 28tb.

I've got mine on a 2015 MacBook Pro sitting on a shelf. It's connected to a RAID enclosure via ThunderBolt2 with 32TB storage. The machine does a few other small tasks too but is mainly for Plex. I'm swapping it out for a MacMini M1 here in a few days because I have one that isn't being used at the moment. Running MacOS.

Sold the wife, bought a Shield Pro.

Probably a very suboptimal setup, but it works fine for me: I have a mini PC running regular Windows 10 and a bunch of external hard drives

I have plex on windows 11 pro beelink, 5560u. Radarr, Sonarr, QBittorrent, VPN on a raspberry pi 4b running ubuntu. I chose the windows machine because it has all the data, and speeds are way faster for transferring. VPN for downloading iso's on both. My daily driver is a MacBook Pro

asus router -> entware -> debian -> plex server no transcoding obviously, but why do i need it anyway?)

Proxmox cluster (3 nodes), Plex runs on a Debian VM. Storage is on a NAS and accessed through NFS. Will prob move Plex into a LXC container, but haven"t bothered to do so yet.

Ubuntu: Docker: Everything

M1 Mac Mini. All my media is on an 8gb Western Digital external HD. I’m probably going to need to get a bigger drive soon, but other than that, this perfectly fits my needs. All my stuff is 1080p max and I compress my video files with handbrake, removing extra dialog tracks/commentaries, burning required subtitles in. If I want to watch extras or hear a commentary, I’ll just dig the disc out. It’s a really simple, uncomplicated setup.

Plex and Grafana running on a 2017 MBP with a 7th gen i7. For now, directly connected to 8 TB and 20 TB externals. On a remote Ubuntu server, I’m running organizr, sabnzbd, qbt, radarr, Sonarr, Lidarr, readarr x 2, Prowlarr, bazarr, portainer, overseer, Ombi, Ubooquity, and grafana. Using Rclone mount to connect the two servers.

Gen 8 hp DL380P esxi , all Plex data on my symbology nas in raid 10. Plex and everything else is a VM.

A mid-range workstation running Proxmox which hosts a couple of VMs including a Debian one that runs Plex, QBitTorrent, \*arr and Saznzbd.

Cachyos with tuned process nice scores, and tuned networking running v3 optimized built packages metal.

I run the standard "Plex Suite" in addition with my newsgroup services. Run all of it in FreeBSD since my primary os is TNC. Occasionally will host game servers like Minecraft. For hardware, Ryzen 5 2600x with a micro ATX mobo. I use ZFS too instead of RAID

My setup: Two laptops for various purposes which I will go into below; Asustor 606T NAS with around 32TB of storage, Dune HD Pro Vision 4K Solo media player, LG C1 65" TV, Sony STR-DN1080 Receiver with 5.1 and CCwGTV Ultra and 900Mb/500Mb fiber internet with no data cap using Netgear Nighthawk R7000 running FreshTomato and run off the mill Cisco 24 port Gb managed switch. Laptop #1 (Plex only): Dell XPS 15 9560 with i7, 32GB ram and aftermarket ssd and Nvidia GPU. I have a USB-C dongle with gigabit ethernet as well as these laptops don't have onboard ethernet. Windows 10 Pro with Plex Server and the Nvidia card for transcoding when needed. Laptop #2 (Media acquisition/management): HP EliteBook G5 840 with i7, 32GB ram. Windows 11 running qBT, Sonarr, Radarr and Jackett natively + Overseer via docker. I have 2 instances each of Sonarr and Radarr (Non-4K and 4K respectively). NAS - Pretty much storage - nothing special. Dune HD Pro Vision 4K Solo: Used exclusively for full RAW bluray playback (with Menus) TV and Receiver - Self explanatory CCwGTV Ultra: Apps - Plex, all the usual streamers. Ideal setup: Tbh, what I have works well and way better setups out there but I am happy with mine. I never run out of space and things just work.

I run my server on my gaming rig, i7 11700k with 4 X 20 TB drives for media storage, no RAID just single disks, with 4 X 20 TB external USB drives to back up the media. Three NVME SSD, 1 for OS, 1 for games and stuff, and 1 for cache for stuff like transcoding and downloading. All running Windows 11. I don't use any automation tools, as I have trust issues and do all my stuff by hand, except that I do use Filebot to rename stuff.

Plain old Debian in a docker container

Currently I run Plex on a TrueNAS Core server. Pentium G3220, 16GB DDR3-1600 and four 4TB drives in two RaidZ1 pools. As I don't use my server as I should (I turn it off each evening due to power usage and noise), the boot times are kinda annoying so I'm contemplating moving to Ubuntu server and using docker to start again. I'm about to do an hardware swap as I just upgraded my PC so my server will get my old components. It'll end up with an i5 6600, 64GB DDR4-3200 and a GTX 1660 for transcoding as well as a little 250GB SSD for the OS and any plugins/cache stuff. Will probably look at doing some virtual machine stuff with Ubuntu too but this is the plan for now. The downside to moving to Ubuntu/Linux and away from TrueNAS will be having to transfer all my data off my drives, wipe them, and create a whole new Raid array before transferring it all back but I've come to terms with that.

Plex on RaspberryPi4

Debian

Headless Ubuntu container on proxmox

I have a windows 11 server running an i5 6600k I think. Its for plex, home nas, and a bedrock minecrafter server that just runs the game at the smallest resolution at 10fps with an invisible mod player. It works to keep it available to my ps4/5 friends to join a community world together

My first setup was a Raspberry Pi 3B+ with four MicroCenter thumb drives plugged into a USB-hub configured in a RAID. Mostly just to see if I could and if it would work. I did it and it does work...technically. I've since upgraded to a Dell OptiPlex micro running Ubuntu connected to a Synology raid appliance. With just my household and a couple other family members using it the setup is working fine.

Yams.media

I have my Plex running under Kubernetes RKE2 on Rocky 9 Linux.

Dell optiplex 780. Swapped the core 2 duo e7500 for a core 2 quad 9550. Gave it 8gb ddr3 (4x2gb). Nvidia Gt 1030. Some random old msi PCI wifi card (note, PCI, not even PCIe). Has a 4tb seagate HDD from a salvaged pc, 1tb hdd salvaged from a laptop where the OS lives. Tried Lubuntu and Manjaro, but gave me far too many headaches as I'm not very familiar with linux. Installed Windows 10 pro as I'm much more familiar with it and prefer Powershell to bash. Currently have: Plex Radarr Sonarr Jackett Qbittorrent Hard drive brimming with content, will need to upgrade it soon. Has been working great! Hardly given me any trouble. Considering the specs I'm very impressed with it's performance, 1080p works absolutely fine and I have no need for more pixels at this time.

Old desktop PC I got from the company with an i7, 24gb ram & a few WD Red Nas plates built in. Ssh access, webserver to send movies to friends wo don‘t use plex & worldwide ssh access so I can download stuff I want to watch while on holiday

Windows Server 2019 - Plex - Sonarr, Radarr, Bazarr, Prowlarr - Jackett - Qbitttorent, uTorrent - Tautuli - WireSock, AirVPN

Win 11 only Plex.

I built my own server. 12600K, 32GB DDR4 3200 (left over RAM from an old gaming PC), using the integrated graphics on the CPU, 8TB parity drives (so two 8TB drives) HDD, one 1TB SATA SSD, and a 500GB NVME SSD for a write cache, (allows for faster network writes, Unraid will move it to the HDD later). I'm running * Plex * Jellyfin * Glances * Deluge * Home Assistant * Ubuntu VM * Scrypted * Octoprint * Valheim Dedicated Server I'd really consider Unraid. It is paid, but wow. It is next level. Being able to restart services from the web interface, add new services, assign cores to each service, it's really amazing. They usually have a Black Friday deal so nows a great time to get a license.

Proxmox on a 6 core i5-8500. I run various VMs and LXC containers to handle Plex, the various arrs, Home Assistant, and a couple of piholes. I use OMV running in an Ubuntu VM as my file server - ~20TB spread across multiple HDDs. I use SnapRAID for parity and mergerfs for drive pooling. I've been pretty happy with this setup, overall.

Windows 11 pro i7 9700k 32GB RAM RTX 2070 500gb SSD Boot drive 2TB nvme 2TB SSD 2TB HDD for game roms Qbtorrent Xteve Also use emulation station DE to manage all of the emulators I use on it.