You want your server processor to do as little transcoding on fly and just stream the media effortlessly. I've found what's important no matter the system: transcode or make sure your media file is formatted in the right codec. I know I could go crazier but my wallet (more so kids) dictated my setup at the time.
I setup my main budget plex server months ago on an old dell 7020 w/ i3-3475s/32GBRAM/SSD for OS/SSHD as DVR drive/& 10TB USB JBODs. No system is perfect.Do you have a lifetime plex pass? If not, you should. I'll probably focus on getting lower cost, lower capacity drives to expand at some point in the future. I'm treating it as primarily a media server, and it's been very reliable and kind of awesome. If it's just a media server, it should be fine. If this is your primary data backup system, don't do it. But if you accept that limitation, it's a good system. So to OP's original question: you can't just drop in a new drive and get parity or rebuild parity across all your drives. I see a lot of what I think of as "old male tech" think, with an obsessive focus on technicalities and minutiae instead of listening to user problems. So it's not that I would do things differently, but it would have been nice to understand up front that this system is limited in a way that other NAS systems typically aren't.Īlso, the vitriol that people use in this community is really off-putting. I'm willing to accept this risk though, since I have multiple machines and data is backed up across my network on multiple machines and also to two different cloud services. I can of course set up new vdevs and create redundancy in those, but it's not like having an overarching redundancy strategy. I learned a lot, and it's a great system, especially for free software.īut I do feel a bit stuck / limited in terms of expansion now. I was more focused on getting functionality via plugins and exploring jails and whatnot. I didn't really understand the limitations around vdevs at that moment. I had two 10TB drives which I set up as mirrored in a vdev, as my primary pool. I wish I'd known about the inability to expand a specific vdev before starting my setup. I'm relatively new to TrueNAS (set up my server just two months ago).
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