#Plex mac mini 4k how to#
#Plex mac mini 4k upgrade#

I know how to download files from my e-mail, use iTunes, hook up a HDTV and use Windows.Д¬urrently, I have a Roku 3 and Roku Premiere and the Plex is running on a weak Seagate Personal Cloud 3TB hooked up to a 5TB external hard drive. WhatвЂ™s your technical skill level? WhatвЂ™s your budget? How many clients simultaneously? What types of clients? How much storage needed now and projected into the future? Etc etc etc.Д®ven with what youвЂ™re asking, youвЂ™re not providing enough information for someone to answer. Along with a travel-sized wifi router and a collection of electrical adapters, It makes for a nice backpack/carry-on said: I use this as part of a mobile/travel no-internet-needed style PMS with the NVIDIA Shield as the server. The max concurrent streams I expect to see with this setup are 2 Direct Play, 2 local transcodes, and 2 remote transcodes.ДЇor fun and experimentation, I maintain another copy of all our media on a pocket-sized 4TB Seagate drive, having passed it all through Media Optimizer at 1080p/8Mbps. Outside of testing, I have never had my server choke based on our current streaming needs. With my current PMS I get 4 transcodes at 1080p/8Mbps (not including additional Direct Play streams), potentially more as I have the iPads set to 720p/3Mbps.

IвЂ™m missing a Roku I would say half of my streams are Direct Play while the other half are transcoded. This setup works well for our viewing habits, which consists of a 65' LG OLED TV (NVIDIA Shield, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, webOS players (multiple clients for dogfooding), Harmony Hub w/ Elite remote, 5.1 surround), PMP on the same iMac, and 2 iPads. Realistically it tends to average around 85-95Mbps. In my neighborhood we have fiber-to-the-home with 100Mbps synchronous speeds. IвЂ™m a bit of a pixel peeper (thanks media OCD), so for big screen viewing I must Direct Play BD-rips. All media on my NAS is in MKV containers, BD-rips with all audio and subtitle tracks. I also have an off-site backup in the cloud with Backblaze where I store all our personal files, photos, videos, and more recently all the media from my NAS. For the purposes of a local backup I use 4x4TB WD MyBook external USB3 drives. Media is stored on a 4-bay NAS (WD My Cloud EX4100) using 4x4TB WD Red drives, also hard-wired to the router.

#Plex mac mini 4k upgrade#

I decided to focus spending on a new OLED TV rather than upgrade my PMS.

I use a late-2013 quad-core i5 iMac for my PMS hard-wired to the router. You be the judge, as IвЂ™ve come to learn that one personвЂ™s modest approach is another personвЂ™s high end! IвЂ™m happy to share mine, which lands a bit on the modest side (at least in terms of CPU). I know some Plex employees have pretty beefy systems while others have more modest setups.