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NAS or RAID for Plex server? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by Live-Cardiologist763@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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I'm relatively experienced with esxi and trying to figure out the best way to set up a Plex server. To preface, I'm extremely inexperienced with networking and have a bare surface level grasp of the topics. I currently have 10 drives set up with a hardware RAID controller on RAID6 and I'm confused where to go from here. Is it possible to create a VM with TrueNAS that uses the RAID6 array or would it just be better to have the Plex server VM use the RAID6 array directly?

I've read some things that TrueNAS should have its own hardware controller or something? I have no idea.. lost in the infinite ocean of forums spitting jargon. Please try to keep it on the simpler side.

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[–] Pvt-Snafu@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

TrueNAS needs direct access to drives to ensure proper corruption detection and repair which is not possible with a hardware RAID controller. But if you're on ESXi, you could just deploy a Linux VM with Plex on a hardware RAID datastore.