Performance of plex on trueNAS

[gazaroonie]

Hello all,

I am sorry if there is a post on this already but I couldn't find anything. I have a PC at home that has a i9-9900k, 32GB RAM and I am getting new drives for it. It is running windows and this is only for my plex server so I think I could utilise it better by converting to a truenas set up. I do not have a GPU in this system. I have my family using the plex server and my 4K catalogue is getting bigger.

I was wondering if I move to trueNAS will I have enough resources to run Plex and still have multiple people stream from the server? I do have a small GPU that I can put into the system if needed (quaddro k2200) if that would help.

I am keen to build the NAS side of things to backup all of my photography RAW files which force me to get more and more drives to back them up. I design computer networks for a living so slightly embarrased I have not gotten a NAS before.

Thank you all for any help or advice.

Gareth

 

[NugentS]

1. You will need to run Scale if using the GPU. I thought you could use CPU (hardware) transcooding with Core - but its not something I have tried
2. The most important question - do you transcode, or use direct play. If direct than the GPU/CPU won't make much difference

For anyone starting out with the word Plex and even thinking of needing transcoding support in hardware - I would use Scale despite it being early in its lifecycle.

In general that CPU is nicely overpowered for a NAS although it doesn't support ECC which is a slight downer. 32GB is a good start too