I currently have 90Tb of libraries shared via a Windows server. I’ve been using Mediasonic hard drive enclosures with 8 or 16Tb drives and Windows/Intel storage spaces for 4 drives for the “Movies” library, 8 drives for the “TV” library, and another 4 drives for “Photos” and other random NAS. I literally only share with family, but, that’s still about 12 users across the US due to school. I have a stable 1000/1000Mb fiber connection that has been working perfectly for the past few years. So, my issue now is, I want to host my own Lemmy, Matrix, and NextCloud servers, but they all seem to need a Linux-based server. I’ve read in the past that Linux Plex servers run into a lot of issues since it was designed to run on Windows. I’m not averse to buying yet another computer, but, before I do that I thought I would seek some advice if I should combine everything into one Linux server, or leave Plex as its own Windows server and put everything else on a new device.

  • yayawayEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I’m a bit late to the party haha. Just discovered lemmy yesterday!

    Just fyi I run plex bare metal (not through any docker or virtual machines) on my Ubuntu Linux device and everything works very well. I was very inexperienced going into this and installing Linux plus plex is very simple.

    You can use the snap function to download and run plex. I think since there’s less overhead as well (especially if you run a headless version of Linux) it might perform even better than on windows on the same machine.

    I plan to move it over to docker soon, but honestly unless you plan to run many different machines you don’t really need to since you only really need to configure it once and basically forget it. I’m transferring it over just because I want to get more familiar with docker in general.

    Again I know I’m super late to this discussion but thought I’d chime in anyway in case this is something you are still working on or considering.