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So I can have multi-GB/S read/write locally while still having a full 1000mbps available on the network port. One of the big benefits is that my local (IE Plex is scanning or transcoding) performance is not limited by the network. I personally prefer the one large box over a couple of medium boxes, but that's just personal preference and what space do you have available. You could also use a Thunderbolt hard drive enclosure. I prefer including them together but it's not a terrible approach (certainly better than a sprawl of USB hard drives). Most of my content is easily replaceable, but the hard to replace stuff I have on additional drives. I haven't experienced bit rot or any issues. All my drives are cloned using Carbon Copy Cloner which only copies the differences and allows partial archiving as space permits. I used to have them all connected to the mini in a server cabinet in our theater, but a while back I moved the backup drives to my office on the other side of the house (as close as I'm willing to get for offsite) connected via USB to an old MacBook. I'm embarrassed to say, but it's all just external USB drives connected to a couple of hubs.
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How do you manage that much data (like physically, there are no internal drive bays) and how to you keep redundancy and avoid bit rot? that for me, the difference is part of what makes it worth sticking with what I know (as well as that something are Mac only like iTunes, Photos, etc.). For work, I deal with Linux based servers and there's a lot of shared knowledge, but there are a ton of little things, tools, etc. For a lot of people (most?) TV is just about having something to watch as opposed to me (most Plexers?) about collecting.īut it falls apart a little considering Linux and macOS are both unix-like and almost identical to use when it comes to server things. Plex is still very much needed for a variety of reasons in terms of what I want. You not needing a home server, so I don't really see the need when you have big brother iCloud. See comment made by Plex employee about some challenges.
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M1 or not, I think Apple hardware (unless you happened to own one that isn't being used) for Plex simply does not make much sense in general.ĮDIT: Yes, Plex already has ARM version of server running on Shield Pro. The biggest advantage of buying a Mac is with macOS and how integrated it is with iOS devices and you really don't need that for Plex server.
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You can build a PC with similar spec for much cheaper. Seems like a bad investment for a hardware intended to be a server, to not have any sort of expansion ability.
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And because M1 is using unified memory design, you can't user upgrade RAM at all. You have to pay Apple tax when it comes to storage and RAM. Even if all three turns out to be good on M1, it has seriously outperform Intel/AMD in order for this to make sense. We don't know if there is going to be any sort of HW transcoding support with M1 that can match iGPU QuickSyncīased on those three uncertainties, I'd say it's not worth it.We don't know if Plex will write ARM based native PMS any time soon (see edit).
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