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I just recently started my journey setting up Plex with *Arr and have had a blast. I have the setup running on a raspberry Pi. Before I start buying a bunch of external hard drives, I went searching for some dedicated server hardware to comparison shop. Am I crazy to consider buying an old tower server for this, or will a raspberry Pi work just fine for this purpose? I don't have that much experience but I do enjoy a good challenge.

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[–] piratetarip@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

As someone mentioned do you need to do something computational intensive like transcoding? Another question would be if electricity costs matter to you (would it run 24/7 for example?)

[–] Skotimusj@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I currently don't require much transcoding but I imagine I will as time goes on. I would rather not have to police the filetypes for downloads as heavily. That being said, It will be an always on server so power is a consideration. I haven't thought about how expensive it would be to run a tower server vs raspberry Pi.

[–] alcyoneous@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

You could always setup a Tdarr instance on another, powerful server (that you don’t have on all the time) that can crunch through everything to make sure it’s the right file type.

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