Right sorry been a bit quiet as of late , due to work
back at it ,lol
the Nas is now built … however i didn’t go with a xeon cpu
I remembered i had a old HP elitedesk with a i5 7500 sat doing nout ,
the HP only had 2 drive slots which was no good when i have about 6 drives
so pick up a z270 mobo and thrown together a little NAS
i5 7500 , z270, 16gb ddr4 ram , 600w Psu 3x3tb 1x4tb
2.5gb network PCIe card
Will add the 2x6tb later down the line for extra storage.
i have install Truenas scale , its up and running 3x3tb + 1x4tb WD reds in raidz1 thus giving me about 8.8tb of space
just done a quick transfer test of a movie onto the NAS ,but im only getting 11MBs while writing to the 4 drives , this is coming a NVME drive that’s on my PC !!
surely it should be writing a lot quicker than that to the NAS ???
i did the same movie to a USB external HDD and that wrote it about 145MB
the issues with slow speed , was down too my network switches … doing a speedtest on the PC, i was only getting 93Mbps ( im on 1gb ISP ) so turning off the switches and back on again-- im up to full speed !!,
tried a transfer to the NAS and it sat at 150MB so a lot faster than it was ,
But trying to set plex now and its completely different to what it was at the beginning of the year when i first looked at it and truenas
Iv gone back to the YouTube videos that i watched to set plex up with , but as i say its completely different so nothing matches to the video
And cant get my head around it !!
Anyone have a way of setting it up with the new versions please
Create a Dataset to hold your media, share it via SMB and move your media files over. You will need to set ACLs so that you have read/write access as a user.
Create a Userid and Group for Plex. Add the Plex userid read/write to the group you used for the SMB share.
Create a Dataset to hold your Plex Metadata (and configuration), and set the ACL to your Plex User / Group. (If you have an SSD pool, put it there for performance reasons.)
Decide where you want to put your temporary files when transcoding. If you have loads of memory (>16GB) then put it in /tmp (files are in memory) otherwise create a Plex Transcoding dataset and set the ACL as for the Metadata dataset.
Add the Plex App - set the UID/GID as above. Set the config location to host and the Plex Metadata dataset path. Map an additional host path for your Multimedia dataset as /media in the app container.
Start the Plex app and open the portal - and login to your Plex userid / claim the server.
Add one or more libraries based on subdirectories of /media which are the subdirectories you see on the Multimedia SMB share. (Personally I have Films, TV, Archived Films, Archived TV, and various libraries for different genres of music.)
Set up snapshots for all the datasets defined above. If your SSD isn’t redundant, set up a replica to HDD for the SSD datasets.
In case it helps, I have an extensive Plex library, and my metadata is c. 60GB.
Contact me by DM if you want any help with setting up the Plex App.
P.S. The Youtube videos may be covering the TrueCharts version of Plex - obviously these days you will want to use the TrueNAS Charts version.
how ever not dancing just yet lol
I use the Nvidia shield to watch plex with and it works perfectly !!!
but i have a few TV’s that would like to also use the with the new Nas
however i got a message something about required codec
when i used the i5 7500 a while back ( end of last year ) i didn’t have this issue ?
@Protopia thanks for the info above really appreciate it ( thank you ) but i couldn’t just get my head around it
so i found this which help a lot , the part where Plex still owns the app and i need to add myself and take control of it ( or something along those line ) lol
Looks like everything is now set up … all media is copied over to the new NAS … just need to add the two 6tb drives and set them up … which shouldn’t be an issues …
So only thing left now is to thank everyone for their help , it’s been very much appreciated…
Thank you all
Andy
hiya all ,
I’m running 4 hdds in raidz1 and while i was copying my data over i was getting a rock sloid 113MBps,
I’m going to guess and say that’s the limit of my “network” =1gb switch and 1gb on each of the PC and NAS = 113MBps
if i was to add 2.5gb PCIe Network Adapter cards to the PC and NAS . and also change the “switch” to a 2.5gb !!
Will i see any faster transfer speeds ?
) but i couldn’t just get my head around it 
