

My homelab is a i3 6100…… and I only give that VM 3 GB of RAM and 2 CPU threads. I run my Plex server in a Ubuntu server VM on my homelab. Are you planning to transcode? How many streams? I wouldn’t use RAID0, there is basically no point when RAID 5 exists. Plex needs almost nothing… the biggest thing is raw space. What size drive or partition should I use for the cache? an SSD for this? Is there a better way of doing this now? Does anyone have any suggestions on what the best way is to setup a cache for those drives? Thinking of using either an m.2 or an ssd as a cache with PrimoCache.

As of today (Nov 10, 2021) what is the best Plex setup in terms hard drives? I'm thinking two 12 TB hardrives in raid 0 (don't really care if the data dies) with a SSD cache.
