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!

  • bkmps3English
    3·
    1 year ago

    Ooooh.

    I’ve just spent the day installing Synology DSM on a passively cooled micro pc with a Pentium N3510 and 4gb of ram.

    I haven’t had a chance to test performance yet. Certainly not 4K capable but that’s okay. If it can handle 1080p I’ll mark it a win.

    Sonarr and Radarr in dockers on DSM.

    12tb USB attached HDD.

    I’m not sure if this will be a permanent setup. Will depend what the 1080p performance is like.

    But I had the box sitting in the cupboard and I’m really keen to cut ties with streaming services

    • BrooklynMan@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’d have loved to go all 4k myself, but I just don’t have the storage capacity for it atm. plus, even with my 4K tv, I just don’t see such a huge difference between 4K and 1080. I have a small apt so I don’t have a huge tv. if I did, I’d notice I more, I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      • bkmps3English
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yeh I’m similar. I’ve found that yeh it looks a bit better but at 10x the storage it starts being really cost prohibitive for a small benefit.

        On a side note, I’ve got the server up and running and it crushes 1080p. No performance issues at all.

        Absolutely insane from a 7.5w TDP cpu. Seven POINT five watt.

        • BrooklynMan@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I’m still rocking a 2011 iMac for my server a a ghastly 350W. I hate it. it’s slow af, but kills it for my needs, which will hopefully last until I can afford to replace it. it’s been my server for the last 12 years… I ran a - get this - a Pentium 4 4GHz before that as my Plex server!

  • root@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Currently have everything in a Node 804 sitting on a shelf in the office. Will be racked soon, along with everything else, to save space. Nothing too crazy

    Hardware:

    • Ryzen 7 3700x
    • B550 mATX board
    • 32GB RAM
    • 2x WD Red Pro 6TB (1 parity)
    • 6x WD Red 4TB
    • 2x Samsung EVO 1TB cache pool

    Services:

    Plex, Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, Deluge, Overseerr, Tautulli, PMM, Homarr, plus a few other random ones I mess around with.

    Running all services through docker integration in Unraid OS.

  • ZeroCooler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Have an old Dell Optiplex with a E3-1200 Xenon running esxi with 32GB RAM and an Nvidia k620.

    • Ubuntu server VM running Plex
    • Ubuntu server VM running sonarr/radarr, Jackett and Qbit
    • Synology DS412+ with 4x 4TB drives using SHR

    Just got a smoking deal on a DS1819+ that I’ll be loading with 12TB drives.

  • WhirlybirdEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    My set up is:

    Synology DS920+

    4x10TB WD Red drives

    Docker: Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Headphones, Prowlarr, NZBGet, Transmission+VPN, Heimdall, Overseerr, Bazarr

    Synology Package manager: Plex (manual install)

    Also have my old NAS as an overflow as the 920+ is often full.

  • Chahk@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 year 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.

  • bluefirex@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    My setup is extremely simple 😅

    • A Synology DS218play (5 years old at this point)
    • 2x6 TB Western Digital Red in RAID1
    • Plex package from plex.tv, installed through Synology Package Center
    • an Apple TV 4K as a client

    Runs smooth up to 4K SDR but HDR is too much for it. Mainly using to watch recorded media.