I'm going to give TrueNAS Scale a test and see if that might also be a good fit, but I'll be suprised if it can replace Unraid. Nvidia Quadro P400 for Plex stream transcoding.Supermicro AOC-SLG3-2M2 PCIe Add-On Card (Bifurcated).I had an old Silerstone TJ08 lying around, and even after I searched hard for a better mATX case I still ended up using it. You can setup things like usenet and torrent dockers that route all traffic over vpns, or get plex with hardware transcoding working
#Install plex media server on unraid install#
It is trivial to get so many different docker apps working and they can be spun up and down in seconds. Install the popular Community Apps plugin and choose from a large, growing catalog of applications to run in your Unraid server. The main draw to Unraid is the docker and plugin ecosystem, and getting to use more of your hard drive space I have a 1TB NVME drive as cache backed by 3 x 10TB SAS drives, and performance is perfectly fine for network shares, and Plex etc. I have it connected via 10G to my network and directly to my workstation at 40G using a cheap Mellanox CX3 card I recently tested just about everything out there to see what would work best as a home NAS for me and I settled on Unraid. Thoughts on all this, is unRAID the way to go? My initial plan was to go with TrueNAS but the more I look at it the more it looks like the FreeBSD base of it are going to be a real limitation if you want to use it for more than just a NAS which has lead me to unRAID.
#Install plex media server on unraid tv#
For Plex I'd like setup Plex live TV and and use it as DVR with a Hauppauge QuadHD or something similar. I don't have any high performance expectations for the NAS side of things as I only have 1GB networking in my house but I'm guessing the S3500 as a cache drive should scale pretty well into the future of 10GB networking. The objective of this guide is to help you to set up Lime-Technologys unRAID Network Attached Storage and install Plex Media Server and Tvheadend TV server. Maybe a couple of VMs and I'm sure I'll play around with Docker containers but probably nothing too intensive. The goal of this NAS will be a Plex media server, and general file storage and backup location. So far I have a Xeon E3-1245 v6, Supermicro X11SSH, LSI 9207-8i HBA, 8 3TB Seagate Constellation SAS drives, 800GB Intel DC S3500 SDD, and an 8 hot swap bay iStar 2U chassis. I've been collecting a bunch of hardware for over a year now to put together a home NAS.