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Hi all.

Currently, Plex is hosted on a VM with network shared libraries from the VM host and the media is on SAS connected disk shelves.
This is causing a little friction in my house since it's loud and expensive to run (£6 per day) and maintain.

I'm thinking of dropping down to a NUC or SFF device as no transcoding is being done with mass USB drives so...

Is anyone using Plex with the media on USB drives? Any pitfalls, issues, KB's I should be aware of?
Any recommendation for powered USB hubs?

Cheers.
 
I think it's around that much per day, I may be off some but if you factor in Backup Exec's cost in licenses and how much I've spent on it while it's in use it works out close to that. I do need to add my power draw meter thingy on it at some point to see how much it is.

Currently I'm running
G7 HP DL380 2X X5650 Xeon's and 128GB Ram.
HP MSL 2024 with 2x LTO4 drives Autoloader.
MSA 60 with 12 disks (3,4,6 TB mixed.)
MSA 50 with 25 disks. (2TB.)

It doesn't just do plex, but a lot of the services I could offload to other devices, DHCP to my Nighthawk, Pihole to my RasPi just to name two.

I guess I'm just bored of maintaining it now and just want to scale back some + we're thinking of trying for a baby GDL this year.

Plex is just the largest impact since most of the disks are just it's content, the VM's are on SSD's on the DL380.

memyselfandi said:
My Dad has Plex with media stored on USB disks ... it works most of the time as long as the drives are set to always use the same drive letters but issues can occur if the drives are not available and the Plex server runs an automatic scan in the background. Losing external subtitle files tends to be quite a common occurrence.
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Yeah, I could see drive letters being an issue, I might just drop down to my 2x 6TB disks and keep the other on LTO Tape, I never watch it all at once :) No need for it to be active all the time.
 
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I think it needs to for my own sanity being honest.
As long as Plex can run off USB drives for the media, I have a plan to move everything to smaller, quieter and more manageable hardware.

Cheers for the advice all.
 
@Avalon Just started the 22TB upload to my new GSuit account. :)
@GodAtum I'll ping you a message when it's uploaded if you want. I don't have enough posts for the MM however..
 
I did but didn't see the need to use it.

According to its site.
"PlexGuide is an all-in-one media solution that deploys a Media Server through the use of your Local HD or Google Drive; serving as an unlimited back-end storage. PlexGuide utilizes Ansible and Docker to streamline your Media Server, while deploying multiple tools for your Server Operations."

Plex is easy to install and setup and drag and drop upload to GSuit is fine for the storage.
 
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Been that way since early 2015 bud.
As a side note, if PlexGuide does all that, they might want to update their site to let new people know. Since none of that is listed as a feature of it.
 
Yeah, you can ignore that. I'm a single user with 22TB hosted.
Google haven't even charged me yet either. :)
 
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