{"id":9915,"date":"2020-07-26T23:09:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T06:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=9915"},"modified":"2020-07-26T23:09:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T06:09:14","slug":"my-main-plex-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=9915","title":{"rendered":"My Main Plex Server"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wanted to post how my Plex network at home is set up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Couple months ago I started building my new plex server, this will be the central media server on my network.  Here are the specs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>CPU Intel Core i3-8100<\/li><li>8GB DDR4 RAM<\/li><li>Asrock B365 Pro4<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>But the big attribute of this plex server is the case, it is a a SilverStone Tech SST-CS308B-USA, what makes this case ideal for me is that it can hold eight 3.5&#8243; drives.   In addition, there are 2 external half height bays.  So I can add an optical drive and a 4 x 2.5&#8243; drive bays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The optical drive and the 2.5&#8243; drives will come from the motherboard.  The 3.5&#8243; drives are from a perc H310 controller flashed in to IT mode.  All eight drives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a 250GB M.2 drive on the motherboard which disabled one of the six onboard SATA drives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The OS is CentOS 7 64bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In addition there are two HVR-2200 Dual Capture cards for a total of 4 simultaneous TV recordings.<\/li><li>Second Intel Gig Ethernet<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, with the addition of the H310 perc card I will unable to add a video card for video processing, so the i3 with quicksync has to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But all is not lost, an I5 on the same network can transcode more streams as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weight: 314.2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wanted to post how my Plex network at home is set up. Couple months ago I started building my new plex server, this will be the central media server on my network. Here are the specs CPU Intel Core i3-8100 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=9915\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,11,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-toys","category-technical","category-training","category-weighin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9916,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9915\/revisions\/9916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}