This topic was automatically closed 90 days after the last reply. 2. Usually got at least a couple of streams running including 4K without and issue. – Kudos in noting older Mini’s are quite up to the job of both transcoding and other headless server-esque functions. Not sure, I just use regular old OSX. No my Mac Mini won’t be the only client. I have a qnap NAS and upgraded to a Mac mini. The majority of the time I don’t need to transcode, I use an nVidia Shield TV which supports direct play for 99% of my media. I also have a pair of 4tb USB drives connected. What would be the best option in terms of accessibility, connectivity, stability/security, read/write speed? I have more or less the same scenario. Client wise my PMS serves 3 other Plex users not in my household - in the house we’ve a couple of FireTV’s and tablets running Plex. Gpu won’t matter, transcoding is cpu dependent. Storage is from NAS. Or am I completely missing something in regard to hardware transcoding? The Mac Mini has a real quad core CPU that will definitely be capable to 2-3 simultaneous transcodes. Press J to jump to the feed. thank you very much indeed. If things go bad, the content of all the disks is lost at once. Disk access is fast. ), It’s advantageous that Plex’s server be always on, so you can start watching your movies and TV shows without having to boot your Mac. I recently decided to move to from a UPNP DLNA Server to Plex to stream my movies, videos, ect to the various devices around my home.

im not so sure its worth paying for, especially if you can go USB3 which for me being a 2011 i7 Mini Mac wasn’t an option. I have my media on both a Synology DS411j NAS and a 4tb WD MyBook USB drive attached to my 2011 Mac Mini so I can perhaps give some comments. The first two drives are the active media library. I upgraded the old HDD to an SSD and it's ram, but otherwise it's running an i5 and I've haven't had any issues with it at all. You can see my setup in my signature below, with the model one up from the base I don't think I've ever seen the CPU at anything above 25%. Learn how your comment data is processed. How would this eventual setup (Movies on NAS and PMS on Mac Mini) work with me watching a movie locally (same LAN) and 4 friends streaming from my PMS remotely??? No, it's just an app, so no problems here. I've been using my Mac mini from 2013 for all my server stuff. 2. This allows them to have a transcoding options without slowing down a processor on the motherboard. The problem is that I am running out of space and am considering to buy a NAS. See http://osxdaily.com/2012/05/04/automatically-connect-to-network-drive-mac-os-x/for a very old (but still applicable) step-by-step. What would you recommend for setting up the network connection between them? I was looking for Synology models, but no idea which one would be best for my backup and sharing needs. Also, while you didn’t mention it, I’ll note that the Mini fan almost never gets noticeably invoked, since Plex playback is all native, with no transcoding. Oh, I have no advice. With this new logic, my new setup could be: Please let me know your thoughts on how you see this option, and if not, which other option would you suggest. So do I switch to the DAS or use it for something else… I can’t seem to decide…. macOS hardware-accelerated encoding is only available at 480p or higher.

The Mac mini is a perfect candidate for this. With my current local WD HDD it works fine, but…would it also work if the movies are on the NAS instead of on DAS HDD (USB 3.0)??? Is there a paticular reason you want hardware transcoding?

Used options obviously get much cheaper then then everything (both new Mac and Windows machines). Yosemite has some known issues with it's new default SMB3, using AFP resolves these issues. If you just like macOS, I would recommend doing an Intel NUC hackintosh build.

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