TrueNas

[LlessurFfud]

First off sorry if this is the wrong location to post this! I was curious I recently recieved an HP420 workstation for free and I thought it would be useful as my Plex server so I do not have to run it on my main. The question I have is about drive space I use it for plex only and while copying my files over I noticed the "Do not go above 80% on the pools!" warning however that is cutting my storage space down by a significant amount is this required for my use case? I do not want to get them to 100% obviously but leaving 200GB empty on a drive seem ridiculous if it is not required.

 

Thanks

Llessur 

[Electronics Wizardy]

If its a media server where its mostly read, you can fill the drive almost all the way without issues. You can get fragmention when writing files, but thats probably not a issue with a media server.

[LlessurFfud]

5 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

If its a media server where its mostly read, you can fill the drive almost all the way without issues. You can get fragmention when writing files, but thats probably not a issue with a media server.

Awesome thanks for the advice! I also have Plexpass and was looking into the HW transcoding and from what I understand TrueNas does not support this? The machine came with two AMD GPU and thought they might be able to be used for that? 

[Electronics Wizardy]

6 minutes ago, LlessurFfud said:

Awesome thanks for the advice! I also have Plexpass and was looking into the HW transcoding and from what I understand TrueNas does not support this? The machine came with two AMD GPU and thought they might be able to be used for that? 

Truenas scale should work with plex transcoding as its linux based.

 

Normally amd encoding is worse supported in plex so it might be worse/more of a pain to setup and use.

[Needfuldoer]

7 minutes ago, LlessurFfud said:

The machine came with two AMD GPU and thought they might be able to be used for that? 

Plex doesn't support hardware encoding on AMD cards, only Intel Quick Sync and Nvidia NVENC. (And the LGA2011 CPUs compatible with your HP z420 don't have integrated graphics.)

 

TrueNAS Scale is just Debian under the hood, and Plex supports hardware encoding on Linux.

[LlessurFfud]

2 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

Plex doesn't support hardware encoding on AMD cards, only Intel Quick Sync and Nvidia NVENC. (And the LGA2011 CPUs compatible with your HP z420 don't have integrated graphics.)

 

TrueNAS Scale is just Debian under the hood, and Plex supports hardware encoding on Linux.

 

5 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Truenas scale should work with plex transcoding as its linux based.

 

Normally amd encoding is worse supported in plex so it might be worse/more of a pain to setup and use.

You both have helped a ton and I truly appreciate it! I will def have to find some other use for the AMD GPU!!