I'd love to get mine all on SSDs but 80tb of SSDs gets pretty expensive

I just am getting started. My plex server is very aging gaming PC running while i game lol.

Mine is a NUC running Jellyfin tied to a HDD via USB

I had to upgrade from that once it started struggling more and more with higher definition content. I ended up upgrading my desktop and using the old parts to build a server machine. The only things I had to buy was a PC case and some hard drives.

Care to share the “how to” with a budding enthusiast who received a RPI4 yesterday?

SSD? Check out Mr fancy pants. Mines an old USB 2.0 HDD.

Mine runs as a kubernetes app on my truenas scale NAS.

Same except usb stick!

You can get a Mini PC with a modern laptop chip inside it to get the power savings and save some space too. Not only that, but you get the advantage of a potentially more modern chip too. I tried my new setup (Ryzen 5 5560U) with 4K HDR decoding last night and it worked without a hitch.

Same for mine, I run jellyfin on an old laptop connected to my NAS for storage.

>make a 3D printed case

>make the motherboard rest on top of the case

That looks incredible! what is that cooler? Did you 3D print the case yourself?

I printed full case, but cant fit gigantic cooler inside xD

https://www.printables.com/model/486506-3d-print-pc

Or, and hear me out here, get an old dell i3, and a couple 6tb hdd to run unraid, with the arr's and plex in dockers. Then decide that's not enough storage, so you get some 8tb drives. Then decide you need some mote space, and you might as well upgrade the chip. Plus you need a GPU to transcode, and the Dell won't support that. So now you've got a fractal Define R5, Asus MOBO, Nvidia GPU, i5, 8 14tb hdd, 2 more 14 tb hdd's for parity, 2 120gb ssd's for cache, and noctua fans to keep the noise down. So what I'm saying is I might have a problem.

In use an i3 12100 with whatever cheep motherboard from a good brand and 16gb of ram (it would be fine with 8gb, but DDR4 ram is cheep so more the better) if you look at ZFS and a real raid, it gets expensive quick, I use Unraid which is ideal if you have SMR drives and/or different sized HDDs. You can get cheep LSI HBM cards off eBay in IT mode which is perfect to connect HDDs to (my mobo only has 4 sata ports)