The server will be for me, my family & a small group of friends so it will have to be able to handle multiple streams/ transcoding (including 4K) & have 10Gbit network connectivity (for future home network project).įor the HDD’s I will need some help, I have started buying WD portable 14TB drives and the plan is to ‘shuck’ them and use them to save some money on storage. Having said that, I have also been thinking, instead of the dedicated server such as the Q30, why not replace my old (but still well-functiong iMac) & build a PC/Plex Media Server combo in a Thermaltake Core WP200 (the case has a capacity to host up to 60 HDD’s so plenty of future expansion). I have an old iMac 2009 (3.4GHz Core i7, 16GB RAM with upgraded SDD memory) it amazingly still performs really well so I have little appetite to replace it ! I would have really liked a setup like the Storinator Q30 from 45 Drives (based in Canada) – something simple, looks aesthetically good and most importantly really quite but I can’t seem to find something similar here in the UK. I am starting a Plex Media Server and initially plan to setup a 150TB server, with plans to expand in the future as my 4K media collection grows. Ultimate 4K Plex server with Top 20 Graphics cards for multiple 4K video Transcoding streams

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