September 18, 20232 yr I have a friend who has asked me to help him build a new server. He'll mainly use it for plex, backup for pics and docs and wants it to be rack mount, with hotswap slots. His budget will be some where around 3k. Can you guys suggest a great build that would be within that price range? TIA!
September 21, 20232 yr I know this is late but I have a suggestion for your friend. Start smaller, figure out how to use the system and then expand. Money isnt going to make it work any better by itself.
September 27, 20232 yr Critical question is does he want to do live transcoding with Plex. Live transcoding is best done with some kind of hardware support (which is still improving every generation). A newer system also allows more resources to handle scope creep. However new rack mount systems get pricey fast. Especially if you wind up with an SAS backplane. The described workload is NAS+Plex hosting. If they don't need live transcodes, anything in the past decade and a half can do that and a second hand server starts looking real appealing.
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