12-03-2014, 01:51 PM
Evan Wrote:JustinG Wrote:Any of you guys use Plex? My laptop just isn't cutting it as a media server, thinking of building a cheap dedicated media server. Any tips or estimated cost?Yeah I run it on my NAS. Nas was $250 + drives so ends up about $450-500 pending drive size. Everyone should have a nas to keep important files and pictures safe IMO so its a multipurpose device, and it uses way less electricity than a real desktop.
if you build yoru own to save $$, just dont cheap out too bad on the cpu. you need some horsepower to do transcoding. just stay away from atom. i3 or even pentium/celeron should be fine.
Anyone running into size limitations with routers and NAS? The router we just got only supports up to 2 TB, which is plenty now, but there are some killer deals on 4 TB drives. Could I take a 4 TB and make two 2 GB partition with MBR?
2. Capacity
In theory, there is no capacity limit, but there are two aspects as follows which restrict the capacity:
A. Currently, the GPT partitioning is not supported. Due to limitations of MBR, each drive can only read up to 2TB.
B. Supports at most eight partitions in theory, if the hard drive has more than eight partitions, it just load the first 8 partitions. (On the same drive, the total capacity of each partition cannot exceed 2TB; If there are different hard drives connected via an USB hub, in theory it can identify a maximum capacity of 8 * 2TB)
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth