dbinott Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 I am new to unRAID and curious if anyone has done this, or if it's even a OK idea to implement? I have everything running on a win10 machine with an i7-4790k, 32gb ram with ~18TB in storage spaces. I just built an unRAID server but it only has an i5-4590, 24gb. What I was thinking of doing is keeping Plex on the i7, and only Plex because it is an awesome CPU and has been great for me, then move all other apps, sonarr, radarr et al. to the unRAID box. Now I was going to leave the windows storage spaces as is and map to unraid. But I assume I would be better off moving it to the array? If I don't move it to the array, can the mover move files to a mapped network drive instead of the array? Thanks. Sorry if these sound like n00by questions. I have been reading a lot so as to not be that n00by any more. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 20 minutes ago, dbinott said: can the mover move files to a mapped network drive instead of the array? no Unclear where the actual media files would reside. You talk about having an Unraid NAS, but also having Windows Storage Spaces. It probably makes more sense to have the plex server running on the same computer the media files reside on. Quote Link to comment
dbinott Posted April 11, 2019 Author Share Posted April 11, 2019 Well, probably movies on one and TV on another. If I kept it that way. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 6 minutes ago, dbinott said: Well, probably movies on one and TV on another. If I kept it that way. Probably makes sense to put the plex server on the computer that has the most media that would require transcoding for your plex clients. Quote Link to comment
jbartlett Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 Your home network should be able to easily keep up with any transcoding so having the Plex server remote should not be an issue, even if Plex is direct streaming the video. 1 Quote Link to comment
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