Hey all
Been playing around with plex and the *arr’s for a while on my main desktop.
Now looking to set up a server to run plex, downloads, pi hole and eventually some other backup’s.
Unfortunately the PC I had laying around is 32bit and it seems like most things are removing support for that architecture if they haven’t already. Now I’m faced with the problem/opportunity of getting something new (to me).
But I’m struggling with the absolute sea of options out there and also don’t want to spend on brand new gear.
There’s quite a bit of server grade hardware floating around (like a Dell Poweredge server T410, 32GB ram, Intel Xeon E5645 2.13GHz Quad-core for $100AUD) or even rackmount gear (probably overkill but a boy can dream).
Or should I just get a consumer case with the most drive bays I can find and build from there?
Lowish power consumption is a priority, planning on running ubuntu or similar.
Any and all tips welcome! Thanks.
For Plex you’d probably want something that is able to do some transcoding (although that also depends on you library), so a current Intel CPU (11th gen +) or a Nvidia GPU. If this is your first standalone server you light want to look into something like a mini pc instead of a full rack. You can get a rather new i7, 32gigs of ram and 512gb of m2 storage for 400€.
For example : https://store.minisforum.com/products/elitemini-th60