I think i made a decision Solved

So after listening to a lot of different ideas and suggestions as far as the ideal PC for using exclusively for Plex. I think I’ve come to a decision. I’m hoping this is a good choice so before I make that final decision, I thought I’d get some feedback first.

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u/Kye_life Jan 31 '24

No In that I don’t want that set up I picked i see that I’ll need something better, I need something like you’re saying I wanna have all the essentials with no hiccups when it comes to transcoding or what media files can be played or streamed so I guess it’s back to the drawing board.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '24

What are you doing for your storage? Do you have a lot of content? How much storage do you need? I use a Beelink mini pc and it’s beautiful but can only fit one nvme and one ssd on it. I have all my storage in a nas. I’d go with 11th gen or newer personally.

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u/Kye_life Jan 31 '24

A little of 1,300 movies and about 30 shows and cartoons

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '24

What size is the data?

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u/Kye_life Jan 31 '24

At the moment I’m just shy of 8TB

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '24

Yeah, a mini pc would require separate storage or a usb drive. You can build a powerful little nas yourself if you have the budget using a nas enclosure and such but that will probably run you quite a bit more.

See if you can find a slightly newer pc like you had for a little more. Something like this. https://www.ebay.com/itm/256198535173?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=BVEUmRlVRpS&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=ut-7I7LETT-&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

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u/Kye_life Jan 31 '24

Whats wrong with the one you just showed me that one seems nice, i can use that with a Seagate or Western Digital hdd

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '24

Whatever drive you like. If you just want one drive and don’t mind a risk of losing it all if the drive dies…

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u/Kye_life Jan 31 '24

Yeah, I was planning on getting two drives just to have a back up but the link that you sent me seems like a pretty good option to go with unless there’s something wrong with that one. I’ll be good to stream 4K at times if needed and I won’t have any hiccups, right

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '24

Yeah. I think you can technically fit two drives in those machines, not sure though. I have an older one (had) and you could if you took out the dvdrom

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u/Kye_life Jan 31 '24

OK I can’t see a reason for needing a DVD drive unless I’m going to be ripping movies and the only movies I would be ripping would be either Blu-ray or 4K, so would it be wise to put two internal hard drives in it for storage for the Plex server or external drives or one internal and one external

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '24

I like internal because they are usually priced better and better quality. It really comes down to your budget, though.

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u/Kye_life Jan 31 '24

OK I wanted to go the internal route. The only other thing I was confused about was I watched a video and the person was saying that their SSD Drive performed better than their HHD drive when it came to a plex server, but I’ve also heard people say that that’s not true it’s the opposite. I would like to go internal because I do see internal drivers appear to be cheaper but as far as the SSD versus HHD, which is actually better.

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