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[โ€“] LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Iโ€™m on board with this. I did something similar putting a Synology 920+ and an Asus NUC style machine running Ubuntu in place of my old OptiPlex and WD MyCloud setup.

Iโ€™m now the primary content provider for a bunch of my family!

[โ€“] kratoz29@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It is truly amazing how you can put a decent multimedia provider with minimal hardware, heck, my two units act as a PMS each, and it serves well enough my usage, my girlfriend and the one user that actually uses it remotely lol.

[โ€“] LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

For sure! The only reason I upgraded is because the OptiPlex costs a lot to run in terms of electricity.

For stuff I pretty much run 24/7 I really wanted better power efficiency.

[โ€“] dan@upvote.au 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can run Plex on a Raspberry Pi if you disable transcoding!

[โ€“] kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I know, but sooner or later you'd need transcoding, especially if you share your server :/