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I am wanting to get a cheap as possible small computer to act as a Plex server for my house. I am not serving up to multiple units at once, it will either stream to a Roku in my living room or a roku in my bedroom, and never at the same time. I would like it to be able to transcode 1080p here and there, but most stuff is 720p. Searching various boxes yields mixed results on the viability of the unit/processor to be able to handle transcoding, so I thought I would ask here. I was looking at this particular unit: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856164017 and I have received mixed info via various reviews from different sites about its suitability. It seems like it works just fine as a Plex client but there isn't a lot of info as to how it works as a server. Any thoughts?
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Feb 22, 2016 22:09
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teagone posted:That's a pretty gimped CPU for Plex server duties. What's your budget? Something like this would be a lot better http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856102002&cm_re=Core_i3_NUC-_-56-102-002-_-Product I didn't really have a set budget in mind, I was just trying to think of a way to keep things nice and cheap. Its not something that would get every day use, but if the Celeron isn't up to the task then I am not really saving money in the end. I might see if I can scrounge up a few extra parts and just get the one you posted and use that.
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Feb 22, 2016 22:22
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Craptacular! posted:I guess I'm the odd duck. I already had a PC acting as a DVR with Windows Media Center, so transcoding is simple for me since I just run Plex on that. I still keep my media and stuff on an inexpensive NAS that's too weak to transcode, because at least that gives it a little redundancy. I have a PC that can transcode the files no problem, but the cost of leaving it on in the event that I want to use Plex would make my power bill rediculous.
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Feb 23, 2016 01:21
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I am trying one based in the Netherlands, but streaming seems to be jerky, and I can't get sickbeard and sabznd to work together, something on their end is preventing it from working well and their support has been worse than useless.
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Feb 26, 2016 00:56
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Based on all of the sites I saw that specifically will host a Plex server, they all charge a fair price but you don't get a lot of HD space and, at least based on the one I tested, not a ton of processing power. There are other companies out there that offer more space and processing power, but that starts costing a lot more money, which at that point it no longer makes financial sense to host it online. I think I will just end up sucking it up and getting an i5 NUC, the power draw seems to be small enough that it should have a minimal impact on my power bill. Right now its not a big deal, but once temps start hitting 108 in the summer, well the A/C comes on and that will be the real test.
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Feb 26, 2016 15:29
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I am wanting to get something that at least looks nice sitting on my entertainment stand and I came across this: http://www.amazon.com/ZOTAC-Sphere-...%2Cp_89%3AZOTAC Seems like it would work pretty well, I don't see anything that stands out that would make it terrible.
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Feb 26, 2016 23:54
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That seems like the most traditional method but I want to be able to put a 2TB hard drive in it, and all of these NUC's only take the M.2 hard drives, and I dont really want to use an external drive.
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Feb 28, 2016 14:38
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Krailor posted:Uhhhh... the one I linked to literally has '2.5-inch drive support' in its name. Oh, I didn't see that one, I was looking at the one directly above my last post.
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Feb 28, 2016 16:55
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