What do you use as a Plex server?

I will get flamed, but I have 4 external hard drives (32TB total) plugged into a USB 3.0 hub into my laptop. I would love to get a NAS but they are so expensive.

I'm just running mine on a 6-year-old Dell micro form-factor Optiplex. It's got an 8th gen Core i5, 16 GB RAM, and 256 GB SSD. Got it used off eBay; I'm just using it for music so that's more than enough for my needs. I just have the unit tucked behind the TV in my bedroom and hardwired to the network.

M2 Mac Mini - 16GB ram. Two External Hard Drives plugged in (32 TBs).

Beelink S12 Pro is my secondary Plex server

N100 CPU, low powered device and yet powerful for HW transcoding up to six 4K concurrent streams.

My primary server is 12th gen i7 Intel Nuc.

I use a PC with unRAID with an i3-12100

Old Mac mini

I'm surprised the celeron won't do the trick. Which NAS / which CPU? What's the workload? What does it show in your plex dashboard during playback - is it showing HW acceleration? Are there other factors like subtitles in formats that need to be burned in? I did have to learn the steps to properly pass through the iGPU to the docker container for my Synology. Ticking the box doesn't mean that it is set up properly.

How do you run your Plex server?

My current system is on its 5th generation of hardware. I've been running the same Unraid OS since 2017, but I've used a lot of different hardware. Before Unraid, I had a tiny 2-bay Synology DS218 that showed me what was possible, but I outgrew it in a few months. I went from 2, to 8, to 16, to 24, to 36 drives. Generally upgrading other hardware as I went.

Here's my current setup:

• Unraid Premium License
• 36-bay Supermicro SC836 server chassis - Modded with three 140MM Noctua HSP fans, replacing the stock 80mm fan wall.
• 36 hard drives. Mostly Seagate Exos 18TB drives. 30 drives included in the primary array. About 460TB total storage.
• AsRock Z790 Taichi Motherboard
• Intel 14700K CPU
• 64GB of RAM
• 4 NVME drives - 6TB of download cache, 2TB of appdata, VM and Nextcloud storage
• LSI 9400-16i HBA card with modded 80mm cooling fan

Beyond that, I've bought all the parts to install a custom Koolance water loop for the CPU with an external pump/reservoir. I might put that together this weekend.

May I humbly suggest keeping the NAS as the storage and using a Linux mini server with the horsepower to fulfil your requirements?

I use a Synology which struggles with 4K but my ZimaBoard 832 does just fine, including transcoding. Using the NAS as an external drive.

There are obviously more powerful options but, overall power consumption for being on 24/7/365 is a primary concern.

I'm surprised there's not more Nvidia shield pro mentioned :3

Pretty basic setup, but it runs flawlessly, I use an 8tb external drive plugged via usb.

Let your NAS be a NAS. Just because companies like Synology or Qnap lets you install applications doesn’t mean it’s a good idea, it’s a storage server not an application server. If you want to run applications, get a separate box. N100 is a great and cheap choice for most use cases including Plex.

if you use this guide, you will get best setup for plex

I use an old 2012 iMac with 16Gb of RAM and external hard drives to store media. Haven’t had a single issue in over 5 years.

I use a 4TB WD external hard drive plugged into a 2015 MacBook Air.

Unraid: I7-12700k 64gb D5 GTX1660s HBA-card 16 drives ~110TB Rosewill 4U 12 bay case.

Proxmox installed on older 8gen intel nuc. Plex itself is installed on lxc under it with hw acceleration alongside jellyfin if needed.

Proxmox server made from some parts of my previous builds:

• Ryzen 5 3600
• 64gb RAM
• 1tb NVME SSD
• 12tb WD Red NAS HDD (will be adding more soon)
• Intel Arc A380 for hardware transcode

Plex is running in an Ubuntu container and I have the *arr suite and some other utilities running in Docker. I put it together back in January and I've almost filled that 12tb already...

TrueNAS CORE on an Intel E2288G with 64 GB of RAM, with Plex running in a jail.

Beelink S12 Pro Mini PC, Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake- N100(up to 3.4GHz), 16GB DDR4 RAM 500GB PCIe SSD

Only $179 on Amazon right now

i7-10700K, 64GB of RAM, 12x10TB with redundancy, 512GB + 1TB NVMe, and 2TB (4x SSD) in RAID 0. RTX 3060.

running adguard home, lancache, 2x batocera instances with sunshine, plex, openwrt (for QoS), immich.

RAM is overkill, but I also like to experiment with things often.

I'm using a Dell optiplex micro i7, 2.8GHz, 8GB RAM - about 1u/half rack size. Got it on eBay for less than $100 without a HDD. Added a small SSD. My media lives on my NAS. Runs great, Never had an issue with DTS, but I don't have much.

My gaming PC. It's on 24x7 and has been for many many years. Currently it is a 5900x, 4090, 128GB DDR4 3200 memory power house.

Get something like an intel lenovo tiny or dell micro pc. Usually loads floating about in ebay 2nd hand. From what i remember 7th gen upwards works best. Just point the server to the nas files.

FWIW I have an i5 13500t lenovo tiny running pms on windows (typically though Linux vm/container is recommended)

An HP Elitedesk 800 G4 Desktop Mini PC with an i5-8500T 3.5GHz CPU and 16GB RAM. Works great for me performance wise (the occasional 4K movie, and streaming for a few remote streaming friends) and the footprint is nice and small so it fits unobtrusively beneath my TV. Next step is to upgrade the 2 x 5TB WD MyPassport USB-C drives I have connected to something like a multi-disk enclosure or a NAS.

I use a Geekom Intel i7 13th series with Unraid and a 1TB cache drive + 2x 8TB drives.

Zimaboard with 1TB PCIe NVME M.2 for OS / Catalog. Media on NAS.

I’d recommend an 8th gen or newer i5 with an iGPU. I’m using a Lenovo m720q tiny PC which can handle around 6-7x 4k hdr to 1080p sdr streams, plus more direct streams (personal best is 4x transcodes plus 6 direct streams simultaneously). The Lenovo is nice too because it has a pcie slot where I’ve added a 10gbe card to connect to storage. I’m running proxmox with a bunch of VMs and containers, and Plex is running in a VM with the iGPU passed thru. You can also pretty easily find these Lenovos for under $150

I like my Minisforum mini PC, it has a 13th gen i7. It replaced a remote Ubuntu server I’d been paying for. It runs Plex and all the supporting apps/arrs, and rarely has high cpu usage. I’ve paired it with a terramaster DAS, 22 TB in it so far but I can add another 110 TB. Also have 2 external HDs from the previous build. My internet just upgraded its UL from 40 to 200 Mbps, so things are currently pretty ideal.

I have a HP Z6 G4 with dual Xeon Gold 6154 CPUs, 384 GB of RAM, NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 and four Synology DS 1621+ arrays with a total of about 200 TB of usable space.

A bit overboard?

Terramaster F4-424 Pro. Super happy about it.

Dell Optiplex (SFF) with an i7 16GB RAM, a little RAM disk and connected to a Synology NAS.

Thinkcentre Tiny m90q gen 3 12500t running plex in an LXC container on Proxmox.

I don’t like running my NAS as anything other than a storage device.

Quicksync is a game changer. I ran plex on a celeron for years and it handled everything I threw at it before moving to the tiny box

I bought a cheap ex-lease small form factor business pc online and have a 2tb ssd inside it, with 4 external drives plugged into it all sitting on top. It has a 2.5Gb network port plugged straight into the back of the router and has enough processing power to transcode without issue

I moved my Plex server to my windows machine. My synology NAS is getting to old and slow to handle Plex…now I have a pc running with a i9 , gpu 3090 and my movies sits on my synology nas. Works like a charm and 100x faster…

I will make the case for DAS over NAS. I started using plex back in 2015 with a 2012 i7 Mac Mini and an 8tb Seagate backup drive.  I then added an OWC Thunderbay 2 with Seagate Exos drives.  I then upgraded to a 2018 i7 Mac mini and added an OWC Thunderbay 4 with more Seagate Exos drives and shucked the original Seagate backup drive. Today I have upgraded to a M1 Max Mac Studio and added an OWC Mercury Elite Quad enclosure and a AKiTiO Therder3 Quad 4-Bay enclosure totaling today with two Thunderbolt 3, one Thunderbolt 4, and one USB C enclosure totaling to 103tb.  I love that with DAS I can keep the same hardware for my storage and just upgrade the server that runs everything. So from a 2012 i7  Mac mini with 16 gigs of ram, to a 2018 i7 mac mini with 64 gigs of ram and a 10gig ethernet jack, to a 2022  M1 Max Mac Studio with 64 gigs of ram and a 32 core gpu I have been able to keep all my storage running smooth and current.  Any M series Mac will run fantastic and low powered but I’m glad I went with the studio to future proof it for years to come.

Get a cheap second hand office pc (HP small form factor or similar) that you can run 24/7 as your Plex server and map a network drive to your NAS.

There may be more efficient alternatives out there, but this does the job.

my gaming pc with ryzen 5 5600 and 4070 super

Raspberry Pi. There is no need of anything powerful as long as you make sure to use direct play on your client.

DS 418Play (Celeron J3355) but all of my TVs have Nvidia Shields and AVRs (2 AVR and 1 soundbar) that can handle the DTS/DTSMA or at least convert to stereo without transcoding on the server end.

Offlease HP with an i3 10th gen

You can see it in my user flair, but that's way too much for just a Plex server. A common recommendation are Mini PCs with a Intel N100 CPU as you can use hardware encoding with it and that's plenty enough even for some 4k streams.

For the power feature, that's often a setting in the UEFI what should happen after a power outage. There you can set often set it to something like "same as before", "turn on" or "stay off". Another solution would be a bit DIY with a relay and Tasmota, but that should be a last resort as it's way too overkill if you have the UEFI setting.

7th Gen i5

I have my Plex running in a docker on Unraid. All housed in a 36-drive server chassis.

Depending on how many drives you want, how much upgradability you want, budget, number of streams, etc., you might reach different conclusions.

An N100 has a decent bit of power these days, and with hardware transcoding, it should be able to handle several streams (quality dependent). However, I have seen some reports of them struggling with subtitle burning (YMMV). You will suffer from upgradability and flexibility. The N100 does not have many PCIe lanes to spare and is usually found in NUCs, which don't have space for many drives or other upgrades.

A used Dell/HP/etc mini-PC connected to a storage array like a DAS or your NAS would give you a good bit more performance and can be found relatively cheaply. You will find some out there with 8th gen+ intel i3/i5/i7 T series processors which will run laps around an N100 in raw power. Transcoding, depending on the iGPU should be on par or better than an N100. However, you will suffer from the same issues of upgradability and flexibility down the road.

If you did a custom build with your own parts, you would gain more flexibility and features but cost a bit more in space, possibly money, and very likely power.

If you are like many of us and constantly adding more content and needing more disk space, it might be worthwhile to consider building your own setup to avoid future upgrade woes. But that is just my 2c.

Used an old laptop with i7-6500u, it worked great, lower power consumption, but it gets beaten hard while transcoding. Hence started using a dedicated PC, I just leave it ON all the time and I transcode only while I'm out.

Whatever you land on I can say that going from a CPU without hw transcoding to one that can do it is IMMENSE.

Edit: my bad missed out that it was audio not video decode

Synology

I found it hard to find a hosting provider with VPSs with large storage with a reasonable amount of cpu/ram without having a war machine. Found contabo.com. old school website but, very nice offers

I'm using a small desktop PC, a Dell Precision 3630 which I bought used on eBay. It has an Intel Core i7-8700k, and it came with 32GB of RAM, but I've since upgraded it to 64GB (due to some other things I have running on it). It also came with a dedicated graphics card, though I wasn't sure it would be very useful for Plex (I think it was an Nvidia Quadro), and I've since replaced the graphics card with an Nvidia GTX 1060. The CPU has Intel's QuickSync though, which can also be used by Plex for hardware transcoding in addition to the video card.

Beelink i5-12450H + QNAP TS-853A for storage

NAS for the media, and got a Mac Mini M1 off eBay for $800 to run the server.

HP EliteDesk 800 g4

RS822+

I just use my everyday PC

Currently, Plex in a docker on a i5-12600k unRaid server.

Previously, Plex MM on a i5-8600t HP 600 G4 mini PC.

Both are more than I need. I just wanted more storage.

Ryzen 3 3200g with a Nvidia Quadro P1000 unraid server

I use a kiosk I got from work for free. It has 4gb of ram and a 500gb SSD and a bunch of other free external drives that were also from work. Running windows 11. Gets the job done and it was cheap (bought the SSD upgrade, and cases for the external drives).

Minisforum UM450 Mini PC, upgraded to 64GB DDR4. 8TB SSD. Running TrueNAS. Literally all I need,

I realized a while ago that I really don't watch many of the movies I'd hoarded. They are backed up somewhere in a storage locker, but my server itself is just music and file storage, apps, and some virtualization.

No redundancy mind you, so I knew that before I deployed it. I'm OK with that,

Dell PC of some kind from 2020 with a GTX-970 card in for transcoding and that also serves as ripping station and conversion workflow. Media storage on separate NAS. It's not blazing fast, but it's good enough and it would be in the parts bin otherwise so it's already more useful than as spares.

I've gone with a few. My current is an i7-12700k (64GB RAM) but it was previously an i9-9900 (32GB RAM). Matter of fact, I still have it if you're interested.

HP Z420 workstation, some quad core Xeon.
32gb ram
Quadro M2000 gpu
Works great for 1080p

Lol I use an AMD Phenom II X4 955.

mine is on an old 2013 iMac... but ive heard good things about Mac minis for this purpose

I run it from this old Mac mini (2013 I think?) running Ubuntu server. I had that forever and I forgot I had it. When I found accidentally decided to run it as a Plex server off macOS, but after I saw that Firefox was stopping support for High Sierra, decided to install Ubuntu server (first timer) and little by little became my file server and Plex server. I have a DAS with like 20 TBs (one 2 TB, one 4 TB and 2 HDDs with 8 TBs ).

ZimaBoard 832, 2TB 990Pro M2, and 4TB 870 Pro SSD. I use Nvidia Shield TV Pros on my TVs to play the content. It runs 4K videos with DTS sound with no issues.

Mine is my sons old I7 4770K 16gb ram with separate Sata SSDs windows 10 and recording drive with 2 Hauppage dual tuners

HP Elitedesk 800G4 i5-8500, 2x 14TB SATA plus a 512GB nvme cache, running Unraid, Plex and *arrs on dockers along with a couple other home server type apps.
It gets hot because there's no way to move air through the space leftover after the drives, so I'm looking to move my stuff to a nas case.

I’ve run it on a lot of things over the years. My gaming pc, servers I’ve built. Drobos. iMac. I have a plex server installed on a Mac mini pointed at my synology. I also have a plex server installed directly on my synology. And I recently built an unraid server for plex.

Gaming PC. Intel i7-14700k and a 4070 Super.

Optiplex, an old 8th gen and it’s fine

12400 + A380 with 24 TB raid 10 and 30 TB off-site storage.

A Mac Mini M1 with 16GB ram, connected to a Synology DS920+ with 4 x 16TB drives. Runs like a charm.

DS218+ that's been running for 3 years now. Works great! I need more space tho

I wouldn’t get a tiny computer, my i5 Lenovo fan is almost always on now, especially when it has to “detect intros”… it’s so loud and annoying

I wouldn’t get a tiny computer, my i5 Lenovo fan is almost always on now, especially when it has to “detect intros”… it’s so loud and annoying

Gaming computer with a 4080 and 2 18TB hard drives, 5700x. No power issues lol.

1st gen i7, since 2014ish?

10700, 64gb RAM, TrueNAS scale, Plex as an app, 10 8tb in RZ3. Next upgrade will be a 12th or 13th gen i3 or i5. I have a couple others I’ve built scattered about for friends and family; a pi 4, an old Sandy bridge, a Synology DS218+, a 8700 and another two 10700s that I copied media over to but I have no idea if they’re actually using it as a Plex machine.

I am currently running an i5 14600k on an itx motherboard, undervolted to reduce power consumption, in this 3D printed NAS case. I'm guessing it can run quite a few 4k transcodes as the gpu never really goes above a couple of percent when transcoding. I have a firecube 4k connected to the TV because whilst the Plex LG app was OK, the cube is considerably better and I now never see any transcodes.

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Which Celeron does your NAS have? (Celeron J4025 with Intel® UHD Graphics 600)

EDIT - This processor is Gemini Lake and has all the hardware transcoding capabilities required for 4K transcode.

Do you have Plex Pass?

EDIT: Based on the processor you mentioned in another reply, you probably don't have Plex Pass. I would recommend you get Plex Pass and try using your current hardware with Plex. If you have Plex Pass, you might need to take steps to enable it found here: https://support.plex.tv/articles/115002178853-using-hardware-accelerated-streaming/

The N100 uses hardware encoding to work its magic in Plex. If you don't have Plex Pass, you can't used hardware transcoding. While the N100 will be faster than the Celeron in your NAS, it won't be fast enough to software transcode anything but a limited number of 1080p streams. 4K will be out of the question with software transcoding.

Can confirm that the N100 works great with hardware transcoding. I had four 4K transcodes going night before last along with two direct play streams.

Run mine using a relatively cheap Intel NUC with an i5 chip, connected to 5 seperate 8TB hard drives I repurposed for media storage. Works fine, but can struggle with live streaming for high bit rate content

SER6 Max. Tiny, powerful, quiet enough. Use it as a steam machine and home server too. As a nomad, it's amazing being able to pack my server into my bag and take it across borders.

M1 mac mini. 8GB ram. Works fine.

My old PC... i5 or i7 can't remember but the 6600k... 16go ram with an AMD GPU : R9 390x

R710 92gb ram connected to a NetApp 24 disk shelf. Currently only 3 10TB Sata drives in ZFS.

I run proxmox on a hp400 g4 with 32gb ram it is in a vm with the arr stack. Also hosts my home assistant os and a vm for my docker containers

I have a NAS for storage

i5-7600k, 16GB 3200MHz RAM,
M.2 NVMe SSD and WD Red Pros

I have a NAS for media storage and use a laptop to run my Plex server.

Mini lenovo with an i5 7th gen. My library is connected to share on my nas

Mac Studio as server connected via 10Gb to Synology RS2423

VM

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Spare parts from old computers cobbled together in the cheapest case I could find at best buy that would fit them at the time with a 7 inch touch screen screwed onto the side of the case just incase I need physical access.

In terms of storage I have two drives in the case and the one USB drive hub that I use for backups or cold storage.

I don't even know what the processor is off the top of my head but it's an Intel core i, don't know the motherboard either. It's all just stuff I had leftover from upgrading or building other PCs over the last 10ish years. This is probably not a helpful post.

unRAID on a ryzen 3900x with 32 gb ram and 126tb storage.

Plex is running in a docker

Mostly my old gaming PC: i5 4690k w/ 32 GB ram in a Cooler Master Storm Scout 2 case. As a media server I've added an HBA that supports 8 SAS/SATA drives currently with ~52 TiB of disk all in a mirrored btrfs filesystem, and a 6 GB Intel Arc A380 for transcoding.

Celeron can be just fine with a plexpass. I have a 10th gen Celeron and it works great. Can do at least a dozen concurrent transcodes. Hardware transcoding is the way to go

I took an old HP Chromebox, bought from a school, flashed the firmware on it so it could run Linux, put a 2TB M.2 SSD, and turned it into the cutest little Star Trek server you ever did see.

My old gaming PC from 2018 with a Ryzen 5 1600x, RTX 2070 and 16gb of RAM. All of that is running Unraid with one 14tb (+ 14tb of parity).

Plex Pass on docker along many other things.

The form factor is not ideal, it's big and takes a lot of space, but my old Fractal Design R6 case can hold a ton of HDD.

Running mine off an 8700k underclocked with a jellyfin instance as well that uses an nvidia quadro p2000. Plex uses the iGPU

Old Dell T5610 server, with dual Xeons and 64gb DDR3 ram, backed by 4x SSD raid for OS and metadata, along with NFS 4 mounted 100+tb media repository sped up by an gen 4 nvme cache drive.

OH, and the GTX1660 for hardware transcoding on the fly!

A mini ryzen 7840hs PC with 2 16tb hard drives hooked up with USB

Old I7 7600 laptop with a GTX 1060 dGPU.

DIY potato that cost like $100 and $1,000 worth of hard drives. Plus unraid.

I have a Dell Poweredge R710 with Unpaid installed on it. Probably overkill for Plex, but I love my setup.

I built my own and put in a rack:

https://pcpartpicker.com/user/yllanos/saved/zkvcHx

Mac Mini

I run it in a container on my TrueNAS server, which is an ancieny, power-hungry dual CPU 2x 8c16t Xeon. 128 GB ECC RAM. 10 old HDDs in two RAID-Z2 zvols. Also added an old user Quadro P400 from eBay for hardware transcoding. Works like a dream. And yes, I have another 20 containers running offer things... It's not just for Plex, lol.

Custom pc running unsaid

I am planning to build this config

For the Plex program/transcoding - Ryzen 8600g APU ITX computer that will be undervolted to 35c and will be air cooled without fans

For the storage (ie Plex storage) - Raid NAS low power with ECC ram (in your case ANY low power pc does fine for this ie the Celeron).

Connect it via Network -> presto.

DS920+ with 12GB of RAM.

I have everything configured using docker compose and can’t remember the last time I’ve changed any settings. It just works.

NAS are still the best option for this. If you have extra PC parts around, you can always go that route, but the native storage capabilities and easy RAID setup/recovery can't be understated.

I've had a Synology DS1522 for a while now and can easily stream 4k movies with no issues (265 codec). I have 70+TB of redundant storage and never had a single problem with it.

But depending on how casual your usage will be and how much storage you actually need, it may not be the right choice.

Dell optiplex 3070 micro with Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700T CPU @ 2.80GHz 2.81 GHz. 8gb ram, simple machine but only used by myself and a few friends, hard drives are external western digital. No Problems at all and been running almost constantly for 2 years

N100 based mini pc with 16gb of ram and a 512gn nvme.

Usually I have used old PC's for that - but the last one broke down.
Now over specked Ryzen 9 with som 4 TB HD's + some SSD's for OS and other fun.
Not cheap, but I like to keep it simple, and take backup to another place every now and then.
Raid and docker just makes it complicated if it breakes down

Terramaster f4-424 pro, planning on having it do double duty but it's just plex right now. I'm not finding the time to get the personal cloud side of things completed yet :(

DS1019+…I haven’t had many issues with transcoding content (audio or video). What’s the processor in your NAS?

RPI 4B 😂 with 2TB NAS (1 SSD, 1 HDD). I will upgrade once I save enough.

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Proxmox on a HP Elite desk G4 Mini, two external HDD's one 5Tb and one 14Tb. Sucks because I can only get 100 up so I'm limited but still handles multiple friends and family members.

You don't need a lot of power to run a Plex server. Old computer, old laptop can be the gateway to all of this. Only time you need CPU power is with multiple streams where you have to transcode. But you can limit this in the beginning when you are starting your library, by making sure to encode your material so the clients can play the material without transcoding.

In simple english make sure all your media can be played by the TVs you are streaming. Lots of material out there to go into details on how to do this. But if you do this a Raspberry Pi could work. Client is the device that lets the TV stream plex and could just be an app in the smart tv.

But if you go the PC route, over Raspberry Pi, it will be easier to add drives, and more drives. Your library may never grow past a drive or two, and maybe two users watching at the same time and with that you have tons of choices in all price ranges.

If you have an old computer this is a great use for it and will give you time to learn what upgrade will benefit you most. Like most hobbies you can start small and stay small or you can grow over time. Fortunately cost to start isn't high, you could even use your main computer as you sort it out.

Synology DS718+ / DSM7.2 - running Plex in a docker container.

My good old boy (always on) 2017 4k iMac. With 16 ram (1 tb ram in a ram disk for transcoding temps) and all my tv shows and movies living on a time capsule updated to 8 Tb disc.

Soon will have to update it to 12 tb drive.

i5-14500 (iGPU UHD 770) with 64GB DDR5, 16x nVME and 12xSATA SSD with one more nVME for boot and one more for transcoding. Overkill on a 10GbE with only 2.5GbE to the home and 250Mbps outbound traffic.

I have thoroughly tested a NUC 13th gen with an i3 processor. It transcodes everything I've thrown at it with the last beta of Plex server (they've just implemented HDR tonemapping on Intel gpus). Power usage is very low, peaking at 25w during a transcode session.

I use an older HP Envy desktop 750-467c as my server and it serves me well.

M1 Mac mini. Synology NAS.

MSI Cubi 5 12M , it's got a 12th gen mobile i7 with decent quick sync hardware transcoding and never uses more than 25W.

Ur mo....m's old computer she sold me on ebay in a very responsible and timely manner.

Synology DS920+ with four 8TB hard drives

A silly-looking but fairly practical Aoostar R1 with a N100 chip, 16 GB of RAM, 512 GB OS/application SSD and dual 6 TB drives for storage. Pleasantly surprised by this cheap toaster box.

Currently running it on an old PC with an AMD Ryzen 3, Radeon card and Windows 10. My media is all hosted on a Synology NAS. Its done its job well for local needs.

I just bought a refurbished optiplex 7010 with 13th gen i5 and will install ubuntu and docker to replace the PC though so look forward to that project.

An old hp with a 9400 and a 2060. 2 internal hard drives and 3 internal drives in an external dock. 64tb in total

I built a desktop into a server rack Ryzen 5 5600x and a 1660 Super with currently 9.6TB scattered across about 6 drives lol

Windows server running on a Ryzen 5600X. 64TB of storage.

My PC i built in late 2014, still running Win8.1 ...

I just run it on my primary pc. Do not notice a difference while gaming.

5800x3d, 64gb ram, 4080 gpu. All my plex material is on a standard 7200 rpm hdd. Runs flawlessly.