I'll be unavailable to reply for a couple of weeks, but I'll definitely be following up on what y'all have to say. Youll be presented with a user name and preset password that you can use on a networked PC to access SHIELD folders. Second, go to Settings > Device > Storage & reset > SHIELD storage access > Over local network, to turn this feature on. Parts list is not an inclusive list of everything needed, just examples Check to make sure there isnt a pending update for Plex Media Server. Phase out my small 4tb drives for something larger, like 10tb's i.e. Need to transfer existing media from old server => new server before taking old server offline I would like to try it, but my current hardware runs 99% of what I want it to, so it would likely just be a temporary experiment.Ĭannot initially scavenge old PC parts. With regards to the hardware passthru idea, it was mostly inspired by the LTT video on 2 gamers 1 PC. Thanks to various streaming portals and services like Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, or Vevo, Plex users can play online content directly through their media center interface.

My debate is spend money on a prebuilt server I find on labgopher, or use consumer parts something like this: Launched as a freeware project in 2007, Plex has an impressive range of features and is undoubtedly one of the best media centers of all time. I want to keep my old PC as a gaming rig, potentially rehousing it in a rackmount case to go with the server I want to build, and experiment with hardware passthru later on, creating a 'gaming VM' with parsec or similar.

I want to toy around with unRaid as my foundation. It worked okay, but my hardware was limiting my speed, I want more storage capacity, and I was running it on ubuntu. So, I repurposed my old gaming PC to be a media downloader, running docker containers for all the arr programs and a few others to support it. Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Plex, media download stack

Plex media server build