After a debate with my friend I’m now curious to know if my set up is extra or the norm lol. Since I port forward plex I have it in my untrusted Vlan but he says that unnecessary and leaves it in his home network. So I now need to know, is my set up is the norm or his?
A while back my cousin and I started talking about my movie rating standards — specific thresholds a film has to hit before I’ll watch it. The question came up: how many movies actually meet those criteria? Turns out around 500. That conversation became this: https://movies.builtbyjs.com
You can filter by rating, actor, time range, and more. Honestly my favorite use cases have been finding stuff to bookmark for later, hunting down intentionally bad movies (harder than you’d think on most sites), and discovering older/niche films I’d never stumble across otherwise.
We’re also working on Plex integration — a direct click-through similar to the streaming buttons already on the site.
Go nuts with the filters and let me know what you think. All feedback welcome 🙏
Hi, I posted this on the Plex forums and got no replies after a week. Was hoping for some feedback here. Sorry that its so long!
I have been using Plex since it was created and before that used XBMC on a modded XBOX back in the day. I have been running an M1 Mac Mini with a Drobo as my PMS since the M1 was released and had an Intel-based Mac Mini doing the job before that. It has been excellent and reliable. I have OTA Live TV and record frequently from there. I have a household with 4 kids, and my PMS is shared with about 10 people outside my household. Its pretty normal to have 3-4 people viewing content at once while transcoding a recording from OTA. I have spent years curating my content, so protecting it from loss is important to me. I currently have 44TB of content both movies and TV.
I need advice on replacing my Drobo. The company went out of business. I would like a new solution with redundant storage. I prefer to have the storage device connected directly to the Mac Mini. I have looked at Synology and UGREEN. They are obviously NAS solutions, but I assume I can have them connected via Thunderbolt. Just looking for speed and stability. I have miraculously had an 8-bay Drobo for years and never had a drive failure or system crash (did have a crash on a 4 bay unit a long time ago). I am thinking about moving the Drobo offsite and starting with all fresh drives with the new system. I would probably set up some kind of mirroring protocol so the Drobo is a true offsite backup. I should mention that I did build an UnRaid server a long time ago when it was still fairly new, but I would really prefer something a little simpler. I own a business, and between that and 4 kiddos, I am not overflowing with spare time to tinker any more than is necessary.
So what do you recommend for redundant storage? I don’t really have a budget. I know we are talking $3,000 anyway to get an 8 bay system with maybe a half dozen drives that get me 60TB or more of effective storage. I have been so pleased with the M1 Mac Mini that I would prefer to continue using it as my server rather than go to an NAS as the server. It also prevents me from having to direct people to a new server who are not tech-savvy at all. My two concerns are 1) transferring the data without losing integrity (I am looking at software but understand systems like Synology have that baked in) and 2) maintaining all the MetaData when I direct my server to new content folders even though it will be all the same data (I haven’t done the reading on that in the tutorials yet but plan to).
Also, I have a Netgear Orbi system that is several years old but running strong (RB850 with 3 satellites). The Mac Mini is wired directly to the 850. I have an HDHomeRun for the OTA. And I have Gigabit service through AT&T since I have sharing all info, both useful and unneeded.
Sorry, I know that is a lot of info but thought the more the better to get the best recommendation. Again, I appreciate any advice.
Hi, I have a My Cloud PR 2100 server with two 14 TB hard drives. I formatted both hard drives and then transferred all my movies and TV shows from another hard drive, but now I can only access content via Plex Live. I also have access to my watchlist, but I can’t watch the movies in the watchlist; none of the movies and TV shows I put on my hard drives are showing up. Before, I only had one 14 TB drive and was in RAID mode. Now I’ve added another 14 TB drive and set the whole thing to JBOD (Just a Bunch of Disks) mode. Could someone point me to a link that might help me solve this problem? Thanks in advance.
Hey! I've recently been battling with my ~7 year old frankenstien desktop that has been modified over that period of time. After several crashes mid-interviews, I spent a day wiping and reinstalling Windows on it and have been having trouble getting back to where I was previously with my plex media server.
Full disclosure, I used to be more technically literate, but I've definitely grown stale over the years and really would cross my fingers and let out a sigh of relief when things just "worked" vs having to go in and troubleshoot. I'm not going to pretend to be an expert.
Issue - Following reinstall of plex media server on my new windows, it will not launch. I can run the app and see it pop up very briefly in task manager before crashing. It has yet to make it to my system tray. Plex Update Service appears to be running in the background.
What I've done -
I attached a log here. I'm still seeing "fishy" things on windows (a critical failure crash today, strange issues when trying to use windows explorer where it just keeps closing), so i'm almost at the point where i'm accepting I may have some hardware failures and need to consider a new PC.
If anyone has any recommendations or insight to help troubleshoot, I would be forever grateful.
***Update*** - Adding Hardware details as well. No change from my previous stable plex setup, before i did a fresh windows install.
***Final Update*** - I was an idiot and never updated my Nvidia drivers. Restarted following and plex media server launched immediately
I am currently a mechanical engineering student applying for internships. I am wondering if anyone has ever used their Plex server as a personal project on their resume. I was told to include things like building my own computer on the resume, but I have certainly put a lot more work in my Plex server than I have my computer, so I would love to include it.
My only concern is the legality of the contents of my server, I want to frame the project as simply technical and what I have learned.
I am looking at NAS servers but I am a bit lost. I am moderately tech capable but certainly not a pro. Are there any plug and play options or is it always gonna be a project?
Just fyi my library is pretty small, just 350+ movies and a handful of tv series.
Looking for advice as I'm about to rip over 4,000 DVDs onto a server.
This will be my first server so I'm trying to get the equipment right from the start.
Currently I'm considering:
Fractal Design - Define 7 XL E-ATX tower - $255
ASUS TUF Gaming B760 LGA 1700 ATX Motherboard - $140
Intel Core I5 14500 14th Gen Processor $520
Patriot P410 SSD 2TB PCIE for the OS $260
Noctua NH-D15 fans $140
WD Red Pro 18TB HDDs for the movies $564; ill have 4 of these
Asrock Pro Series 750w Power Supply $60
32GB Ram DDR5
Anything that stands out as a mistake; anything you'd swap out?
Plan to run this on Unraid OS