What help do you need? Plex and Jellyfin are pretty straightforward to set up. The real hardship is finding the right hardware for transcoding, that also doesn’t break bank but supports the required number of disks and future expansions.
I have a 4790k, 24gb, 970gtx. Basically my old 2012 rig thats been sitting in a closet. Got motivated to cancel all my subscription after a buddy said, “Oh its easy” and its not.
I’m a hardware/software guy that’s built every PC since 1999 but suck at network stuff. Soooo its been watching a ton of videos from the epxerts and even theyve been like “oh it only took me 2-4 hours to figure out Unraid and I only had to modify this or that config file”.
Haven’t found a good tutorial that dumbs it down enough were I feel comfortable but I guess Im going to have to dedicate a weekend to see if I can get something setup. These tutorials are like “draw the rest of the fucking owl” meme. Wtf is a container and why does every app need a different port? Just things like that.
Microsoft sucks as but theres a reason us dumb dumbs use it over Linux.
Forget Unraid. It’s unnecessarily overcomplicated for beginners, lots of settings hidden in config files instead of a neat web interface, and quite a few parts of the array management are not named well or proper.
Instead use TrueNAS SCALE. Ubuntu based (though you can NOT treat it as Ubuntu, sadly), straightforward web interface, straightforward array naming, with lots of good tutorials.
App installation is then as simple as running the right apps from their app store. It uses Docker under the hood, config is pretty straightforward again (almost everything is mapped for you, you’ll just need to add your media mount paths, which have a nice UI picker), and you’re done.
Don’t forget the *Arr suite (Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, plus whatever replaces Readarr, Prowlarr for torrent trackers), qBittorrent for client, and Bob’s your uncle.
The 4790K might not be enough for transcoding (it’s not about raw power but supporting the right codecs in hardware), and the 970 combo might eat more power than selling your rig and buying a NAS, but it’s definitely a serviceable setup.
Hmmmm thanks. I was looking at TruNas versus Unraid and the one thing that looked interesting is the easy of use for expanding drives or a mix of drives.
Is there a nas thats easy to use with what it takes to run a few streams? My buddy mentioned usenet over torenting as that looks like an additional layer of vpn and what not but probably need that.
Thanks for the info. Maybe I’ll dig deeper on TruNas and just front the money for a few more drives that I was planning to add in the future.
What help do you need? Plex and Jellyfin are pretty straightforward to set up. The real hardship is finding the right hardware for transcoding, that also doesn’t break bank but supports the required number of disks and future expansions.
I have a 4790k, 24gb, 970gtx. Basically my old 2012 rig thats been sitting in a closet. Got motivated to cancel all my subscription after a buddy said, “Oh its easy” and its not.
I’m a hardware/software guy that’s built every PC since 1999 but suck at network stuff. Soooo its been watching a ton of videos from the epxerts and even theyve been like “oh it only took me 2-4 hours to figure out Unraid and I only had to modify this or that config file”.
Haven’t found a good tutorial that dumbs it down enough were I feel comfortable but I guess Im going to have to dedicate a weekend to see if I can get something setup. These tutorials are like “draw the rest of the fucking owl” meme. Wtf is a container and why does every app need a different port? Just things like that.
Microsoft sucks as but theres a reason us dumb dumbs use it over Linux.
Forget Unraid. It’s unnecessarily overcomplicated for beginners, lots of settings hidden in config files instead of a neat web interface, and quite a few parts of the array management are not named well or proper.
Instead use TrueNAS SCALE. Ubuntu based (though you can NOT treat it as Ubuntu, sadly), straightforward web interface, straightforward array naming, with lots of good tutorials.
App installation is then as simple as running the right apps from their app store. It uses Docker under the hood, config is pretty straightforward again (almost everything is mapped for you, you’ll just need to add your media mount paths, which have a nice UI picker), and you’re done.
Don’t forget the *Arr suite (Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, plus whatever replaces Readarr, Prowlarr for torrent trackers), qBittorrent for client, and Bob’s your uncle.
The 4790K might not be enough for transcoding (it’s not about raw power but supporting the right codecs in hardware), and the 970 combo might eat more power than selling your rig and buying a NAS, but it’s definitely a serviceable setup.
Hmmmm thanks. I was looking at TruNas versus Unraid and the one thing that looked interesting is the easy of use for expanding drives or a mix of drives.
Is there a nas thats easy to use with what it takes to run a few streams? My buddy mentioned usenet over torenting as that looks like an additional layer of vpn and what not but probably need that.
Thanks for the info. Maybe I’ll dig deeper on TruNas and just front the money for a few more drives that I was planning to add in the future.