M1 mac plex server12/16/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In this situation only expensive board level repair can restore your Mac. My buddy in NYC owns a shop, and most newer Macs brought in are because of failing internal drives. Board level replacement of a newer Macs NVME can cost u easily over $700-$800. That whole “RAMdisks don’t provide any benefit” opinion is outdated and no longer valid with newer macs with drives that aren’t easily replaced by a simple swap of a spinning drive or SSD. I even have app and browser downloads pointed at my RAMDisk and it’s maintained my drive health at 100% with less than 500GB written to it after 2 years, and mind you, I also run a Homebridge Server and Pihole instance on the same Mini as the Plex Server. It’ll delete that once the movie is completed, but, those constant writes and deleting are a nightmare considering new macs don’t have easily replaceable internal storage/NVME drives. If you’re transcoding a 20GB 4K movie, Plex writes about that much to your drive with the Transcoder. Low-cost but works quite nicely, and I use the mini as server for a few other things as well, such as Komga (a comics server similar to Plex), where the same backup scheme works fine.Ĭorrect, but I STRONGLY disagree with the constant writes not being an issue part, especially with 4K transcodes. ![]() And after Plex introduced their own system for storing what I've watched on their servers, even if my Plex installation gets 100% destroyed, once I've gotten the videos again and configured a new Plex server, my watch status will be restored so yay for that! So I don't worry too much about this happening, it is not super-likely that a lot of the video files would go bad at the same time, but if it does I'll just have to get the videos again which is doable (although horribly boring). if a local drive goes completely bad and reports empty content, this will not be synced to the remote, i.e. My rsync job does some basic checks before syncing, like making sure not a suspicious number of files will change before syncing (so e.g. Since I have backup remotely, what could destroy my stored videos is if a local drive silently becomes corrupted the corruption will be synced to the remote drive so goodbye to those videos. I've instructed all users to only use direct play, if possible, since the CPU is not exactly world class -) Also, the 4K movies are in a separate library which I do not share with everyone.Įverything works fine and has been doing so for years. it has external drives with a similar capacity) using rsync+ssh+crontab. Backup, storage: Mac mini 2010 at a friend's place, to which I sync storage (i.e.Mostly only me, but some friends & family are also invited I don't think there's ever been more than 3 clients at the same time. Storage: 4 external drives (no SSD) with something like 16 TB (mostly 1080, some 4K) movies and TV series.Server: Mac mini 2012 (6 GB / 240 GB regular drive, not SSD).What would make me jump ship is if we see significant improvement where Plex can transcode multiple 4K movies simultaneously.įrom my extremely cursory checking to date, it appears that the newer M1/M2 chips don't really provide much advantage over the Intel chipsets from a transcoding perspective. While my setup has been running largely well for the past 5 or so years, I'm sporadically checking this sub-reddit to see if there's been any advancement of Plex taking full advantage of the Apple ARM architecture for transcoding. I don't bother with separating 4K/1080p content for remote users. This has largely alleviated users informing me of buffering issues due to transcoding. That said, I have set my Mac mini to restart every morning at 4am. Every once a while, I'll be notified of a buffering issue and a simple restart of my Mac mini has always resolved the issue. My Mac mini audibly spins up its fans when transcoding content any my users rarely report any issues. I have probably a dozen users I share my library with and I'd get maybe 4-5 streams simultaneous streams at most. 4K content starts almost immediately with no issues. The above serves me very well to stream pretty much anything locally. Internet - Gigabit down, 50mbps up (janky Australian internet).One is wired via ethernet, the other via wifi Network equipment - UniFi Dream Machine Pro, UniFi 24 port switch, 2 x UniFi AC Pros.Please go to the relevant subreddits and support forums, for example: Build help and build shares posts go in their respective megathreads No referral / affiliate links, personal voting / campaigning / funding, or selling posts Welcome to /r/Plex, a subreddit dedicated to Plex, the media server/client solution for enjoying your media! Plex Community Discord Rules Latest Regular Threads: No Stupid Q&A: Tool Tuesday: Build Help: Share Your Build: Submit Troubleshooting Post Files not showing up correctly? ![]()
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