We picked a Rosewill 4U server chassis due to being the least expensive 12+ 3.5″ hot swap bay chassis we could find. With the current component glut, PSUs are still fairly high-priced, so the $111 was fairly affordable compared to some of our other options. We did have to spring for a 3-pack of SATA to Molex adapters to finish powering our backplane and chassis fans though. The Gold rating ensures we’ll have a certain level of efficiency as well. We picked the EVGA Super Nova 650 G5 due to the chain of four Molex connectors and it’s outstanding 10 year warranty. The 500GB of NVMe might prove too small for all of Plex’s features to be enabled for a large library, so one might consider more space if you intend on using preview thumbnails. The G.Skill Ripjaws V RAM was a cheap option for 16GB, which gives us enough headroom for a VM or two, on top of the Plex and filesystem requirements. We select the ASRock B550 Pro4 for its price, NVMe M.2 socket, and 6 SATA ports. AMD’s 65W TDP APU idles at very lower power and under light load, runs more efficient than something like the i5 9600K. While we’re not looking to host more than just a small household of users, the system is intended to be utilized for Virtual Machines and other uses as well in the future, so we need something bit a bit more power, but without bumping up out of our desired power range like a 95W CPU+dGPU would do. This requirement would certainly shrink our potential used OEM systems, but for smaller deployments, may fit just fine. Since we’re using twelve hard drives, we need at least 4 SATA from the motherboard and another 8 from a PCIe RAID/JBOD card, and then one additional port for the OS. However a used computer with vendor-specific components does raise questions on longevity and build flexibility. With Plex recently supporting QuickSync for on-the-fly transcoding, it becomes almost a de facto option, as it can handle plenty of simultaneous transcodes at very low power usage. If you’re wanting cheap, used Dell Optiplex systems with low-power Intel CPUs sporting QuickSync are a great option. There’s a lot of debate on what a good set of Plex server components would be. Rosewill 4U Server Chassis w/ 12 Hot Swap Bays
Western Digital Ultrastar DC HC320 8TB SATA HDD System Build List Pre-build Parts Partģ-Pk SATA Male to Molex LP4 Female Power Adapter The system, as built, will deliver roughly 64TB of usable storage capacity. It needed to have a lot of space, be resilient, relatively power efficient, and fairly easy to maintain without cracking open the case. We were recently asked for assistance to build a home media storage server to store family photos, video, DVD backup archive, and other media items and to use Plex to organize it. We field many inquiries for custom builds to serve particular needs.
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Please watch the video if you want the full setup walkthrough.) Cheers.( Note: this article is written as a companion article to our YouTube video on this topic. Hope this gives you a little something to consider as well and that you have a great time with your Plex. Price per dollar to GB the greens are a good value as well. However if the content is purely for your own consumption dropping your bandwidth projections might not be a bad idea, as well as the posable power savings you may find from a green spinning down for instance. If you are going to be leaving your system up all the time and are expecting to have multiple users accessing your content or are considering moving to a raid based system in the future then the reds might be the better choice for you. Reds are great drives (I own a fair share of the 4gb model) but the extra funds required to buy them might be wasted is you don't need the extended offerings they bring to the table. Are you going to be running this system 24/7? How many users are going to be accessing it? How much do you want to spend? IMHO you should consider your needed throughput as well as your operational situation.
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