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Hi all, have you seen energy prices?! I need to reduce my server power consumption and was thinking of swapping out my CPU/motherboard, see my specs below. I want to downgrade, but I still need something that can transcode if needed, so I was thinking minimum 4/6 cores, a pentium or a pi isn't...

Hi all! Been out of the game for a while now. Was hoping i could some help with choosing parts to build a plex server. I'm not too worried about transcoding as i'll be trying to get everything to directplay to my devices. But, if i can get a cpu that can do a good job at transcoding, that's...

So sometime in the future I’d like to build a server for my plex library, currently I’m using a synology ds918+ nas as my plex server and it’s fine but it’s not exactly great at having multiple remote streams. I’d like to build a somewhat small factor nas with the ability to hot swap drives like...

Since Google Play Music is being shut down and Youtube Music is a weak option (especially if you own your own library of music) I have looked in to various alternatives, and it seems Plex a good one. The bonus being I can serve my video content to my 4K tv better. I have been looking in to a...

Hello all, Long time lurker looking for some opinions on upgrading the HP Microserver Gen8. So I've got a Gen8 which I've upgraded to 8GB RAM and installed an Intel Xeon E3 1220 V2 + Cooler and an SSD running in bay 1 for now. Its only used to run Sonarr, NZBget and Plex on Windows Server 2012...

Afternoon, I've been using my main PC for this task (not 24/7) and turning it off and on has been getting annoying, hot and expensive over the last few months! I am looking at investing in a Plex / File server. I priced up the stuff below, but I really don't know a great deal about this stuff -...

Hi All knowledgeable people, I recently bought this tv after Mrs left taking the Samsung :( I can't find a way to install plex or emby. Anyone know of a method to hack/update/add one of these apps, or an effective way to stream from laptop to the TV. Wireless display is sub optimal. Thanks.

Hi all, It seems I only really post on here when I need help with a build, but i'm a bit of a part time enthusiast and there's always the best advice on here, in fact, to find my various builds over the years, you probably only need to look at my post history :D Anyway, now the polite...

Its time to get rid of the DVD collections - nobody plays them unless they are on Netflix/recorded etc! My little angels have ipad/tablets/PS4 Whats peoples thoughts on using Google Drive and Plex to create our library? Does it work well? Is there a particular format to convert the media for...

I want to rip my CSI Las Vegas DVDs to my Plex server but wondered what the best settings are to use for speed Vs quality Vs space as there are quite a lot of episodes! I intend to use handbrake but open to other suggestions. I have access to an i5 7200U with quick sync but I've heard that...