I've been running FreeNAS and Plex server separately for many years. I'm about due for a complete hardware refresh for both and would like to condense the footprint a bit. I'll be north of 60 usable TB on the updated build and plan to supply the appropriate amount of memory to appease FreeNAS. Plex relies very little on memory so it can tie up the cores/threads I throw into the box and everyone should be happy. I see plenty of simple tutorials out there for installing Plex manually into a jail instead of using the plugin but with little or no explanation as to why this is beneficial. Other than the delay in Plex updates to the plugin, is there any other tangible benefit? Also, I've seen a few posts from people that setup a RAM disk on their FreeNAS boxes and the associated comments saying that it's a good or bad idea but has anyone done this and passed it through to Plex to use as a transcoding drive?