Curious to hear from people who use a micropc as their plex server with a DAS/ JBOD over usb. What has your experience been like ? Has it been problem free ? Especially interested in people who use plex to its full capabilities, as in regularly having people connected to their server, using high bitrate 4k remuxes, using hardware based transcoding with tone mapping etc. Are their any “gotchas” to this kinda of setup ? I really am attracted to the thought of running a power efficient setup like this.
My first attempt at running a setup like this did not go well and I am trying to explore all options. I've settled on running plex on either a micro pc /nuc with usb 3.0 DAS OR an regular pc with ATX case and a ton of 3.5 hard drive bays. Seem to be compromises either way. The DAS over usb 3.0 I've heard can have connectivity experiences, which I also encountered on my first attempt. The ATX case with a ton of JBODs is power hungry, and there aren't readily available 35W processors out there. 65w seems to be available on newer intel 12th gen+ cpus. Thoughts?