Yeah this temperature is nothing. Regularly gets over 40 degrees Celsius where I am, and all of my home servers have run 24/7 through it without issue, not in air conditioning.

30.8 to 31.5……that’s nothing at all. What am I missing here?

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Fantastic product, works in homeassistant.

Unfortunately with RAID you need to basically wipe and start again to add more drives to the array.

They’re talking about the Jellyfin crew.

Someone else set up your Plex server?

Cool, so you can finally admit you set Plex up wrong. Good job.

You set it up in the wrong way if you want to stream locally on your network.

It’s ok to admit that you made a mistake and it’s not plex’s fault. Just take some responsibility for your actions.

You’re not lying, you’re just not good at networking and/or setting up Plex.

Plex does NOT charge for streaming on your own network. If it is saying that you need to pay it’s because you’ve set your network(s) or Plex up wrong.

You were the one that made the claim that “software doesn’t have huge ongoing costs”, which is what I said is wrong. Lots of software does, as you now agree.

Saying software does not have huge ongoing costs shows you’ve never worked on any huge software system. My works ongoing costs for hosting/scaling/storing data are millions of dollars a year.

What media management and consumption platform did you buy?

And they likely made it because without VC funding they would have gone under, because people that use services like Plex tend to not want to pay to use said services.

If you were having troubles it’s because you did something wrong, though I don’t know how. Plex is literally the easiest and most straightforward media server to set up and get working out of all of them.

OP has set it up wrong so it’s ALL going remote, even when he’s in the same house.

Are you saying that you’re on your home network with your Plex server and it won’t let you play your media without paying? That’s not true if so. You must be outside the network.

I just commented saying OP should consider this haha. I just went from a DS920+ to a M4 Mac Mini and Terra-Master DAS.

What issues are you having with it? I just did this and have found it to be pretty much perfect.

I was like you and had my Synology DS920+ doing everything - the full *arr suite in docker containers, Plex server (native), torrents (in container), etc. I’ve recently moved away from that to a new setup which I think will be significantly better and simpler.

• Mac Mini M4: this is running Plex Media Server and all the *arrs. I’m currently running them natively, but might move them off to docker. Don’t really see any need to though, they’re safe and I know how to configure them like the back of my hand at this point.

• Terra-Master D5-310 5 Bay DAS: running in RAID5 with 5x10TB WD Red drives. Since this is connected directly to the Mac via USB-C, so is essentially a external HDD, it can be backed up with BackBlaze for $99/year! This is great because it’s just plain RAID5, not Synology’s proprietary RAID (which is great btw) so I’m not locked in to their hardware ecosystem.

The Mac has absolutely no problem transcoding as many streams as you can throw at it, and the power draw is just insane. It tops out at like 50W or something stupid, and idles at about 4W.

I am currently moving from a Synology DS920+ to using my Mac Mini M4 + DAS with hardware RAID. The Synology is great, but I want to get away from the proprietary RAID that it’s using. I was running Plex on it, as well as all my *Arr’s etc via docker, but Plex and all of these services on the Mac Mini run like greased lightning compared to the Synology. Sonarr/Radarr load instantly versus taking a minute to load the library on the Synology.

I think doing it this way rather than an all in one device is easier to maintain and upgrade. Run all the services in docker so you can make them on any device that you might upgrade/change to, and just have a big RAID array of drives. Plus this way I can use Backblaze personal and backup the entire 50TB for like $99 a year :|