12-03-2014, 02:13 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 new pentium/celeron should be fine.
So would this with like a 1TB drive be a good option?
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Looks like the processor should handle 2 1080 streams at once, which would be a rare occurrence.