Build for a Plex server

[ED209]

This is currently what my PC is using after the PC has booted up and just sitting on the desktop. This is without me doing anything to the system

 

[isg530d]

for whats its worth i run plex on a
Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.4

storage is synology ds414, just upgrade disks to 4*18TB drives

tv recording device homerun quad.

been running this now for 4 years or so, serves music/ videos and tv recorded programs.

regards

 

[Deleted User 298457]

Plex is super lightweight in my experience. I am using an i5-4590 Dell OptiPlex 3020 with 8GB of ram. It uses 20w/h in idle with 1 large HDD and an SSD.

Edit: and my original use case I was always home when I used it, so it just ran in the background of my main PC.