So, I'm looking potentially at this Atlas Canyon based NUC: Which is the N5105 Celeron. Potential wish list item would be running some VMs for home lab type stuff. I am trying not to blow the budget too much but have something that will be flexible primarily for hosting Plex on my local network (not doing much over the internet, but it's a possibility) and doing some onsite backups. Research has led me down the NUC + NAS/DAS path. Point being, I'm tech savvy enough to do something more DIY if the juice is worth the squeeze, so to speak. I am an IT professional, but my area of expertise is enterprise networking and I've managed to avoid most sysadmin / server / desktop type work my whole career, for better or worse. I've debated going the Synology route for simplicity, but it does seem limited and now with the new boxes (like the 923+) opting for AMD processors without iGPUs I'm even more hesitant when one half of the primary goal is media streaming. 16GB of RAM isn't enough to transcode a 4k remux tho and I am transcoding on the NVMe.ĭummy trying to build a home media server and backup server. It'll transcode 10 4k streams no problem. You'll need to Google that.įWIW I'm running an 11th gen i5, 16GB RAM and a 1TB NVMe with media on a separate two NAS populated with 12 14TB HDDS. To get 4 simultaneous 4k transcodes you'll need to uncap the NVidia card 3 stream limit. If you're stuck on Windows get an Nvidia GPU and the CPU doesn't matter as much. No GPU necessary if you go Linux based on the OS and have Plex Pass. 8GB is fine, 32GB or more if you want to transcode with it. Plex doesn't use a ton of RAM unless you want to transcode in it.
If you want more than 2 streams, probably want 8th gen plus in the I series processors or hd700/Xe graphics. Really you're looking for hd600 or newer graphics. Lso which cpu, gpu, and ram combo would work well for this? WD Red/ultrastar, Seagate iron wolf/exos, Toshiba NAS/Enterprise are all good.īut I'd still recommend your os and Plex database be on an SSD rather than HDD, your library, search and GUI experience will be better.
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