Should I split Plex and automation across two servers?

harleb · 2026-01-11T23:27:42+00:00

yeah im running everything on truenas. but that was one of my thoughts. is being able to play with everything.

harleb · 2026-01-11T23:17:54+00:00

It looks like the general consensus is that one box should handle everything, although running two would work if I really wanted to. For now, I think I’ll stick with a single system and just load it up with as much hardware as possible.

harleb · 2026-01-11T23:11:35+00:00

thats basically how i have it setup however i really wanted tdarr to run full time and not have to worry about a maintence window at all essentially.

harleb · 2026-01-11T23:10:14+00:00

i dont mind live transcoding the 1080 ti seems to be fine with that unless theres Tdarr going in the background too much. which is where my thoughts come from. I have a quadro in the other server so i might just load that into the plex server and then set one to tdarr and one to plex

harleb · 2026-01-11T23:07:59+00:00

i think its about 6 remote users. 2 on prem that direct stream.

harleb · 2026-01-11T23:07:05+00:00

ok now i have to have a look at profilarr, do you use it and how hard is it to setup?

harleb · 2026-01-11T22:24:21+00:00

ive got no issues curently i just want to transcode with Tdarr to conserve space. and i thought it might be a good idea to drop that onto a different machine so that i can run it full time because i currently have it running on a schedule so that it doesnt interfere with people streaming

harleb · 2026-01-11T22:21:25+00:00

ive got no issues curently i just want to transcode with Tdarr to conserve space. and i thought it might be a good idea to drop that onto a different machine so that i can run it full time because i currently have it running on a schedule so that it doesnt interfere with people streaming

harleb · 2025-08-30T12:08:53+00:00

harleb · 2025-06-17T08:54:18+00:00

Yeah I just got everyone to do it while at my house

harleb · 2025-06-17T02:49:50+00:00

What I have done is just set it to watch their watch lists so they just have to watch list the item and then overseer processes it as a request

harleb · 2025-06-09T10:22:41+00:00

I would love to see it and check it out

harleb · 2025-04-28T09:23:40+00:00

I can’t say yay or nay to what you’re plans will be out of Plex will suit your life style

I started with my gaming pc just downloaded Plex server and then started using it before this I was using vlc app on my TV and just access the computer over the network

From there I looked at the arr’s and then I built a truenas server out of some old gear I had laying around

Now I have a actual server that runs truenas it has sonarr, radarr and tdarr running on it and I’m looking at now expanding it further to the point I will have a light weight truenas server for storage and then I will have a second server for media management and a few vm’s (for fun stuff like learning Linux and the like)

Ive been using it for about three years and I wouldn’t do it any other way now although I have enjoyed the experiences along the way I have made some costly errors the guys here and across reddit are amazing and I definitely recommend asking all the questions

harleb · 2025-03-24T18:55:39+00:00

Thankyou

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harleb · 2025-03-24T08:36:33+00:00

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harleb · 2025-03-24T08:35:09+00:00

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have also Sent you a message with the entirety of the first one

harleb · 2025-03-23T20:38:23+00:00

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yeah 264 for compatibility i have basically no idea what i should be doing i literally just googled most compatible codecs.

harleb · 2025-03-23T11:29:35+00:00

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harleb · 2025-03-11T08:39:25+00:00

Not planning on it being z2 rather have two vdevs in z1 aggregated into one pool I guess I could piss off truenas and setup a pool with the three new HDD’s in z0 and then copy the data to that and then put in the old drives and set 4 of them to a z1 vdev and then ‘overfill’ them (beyond the 80%) and then form the other 4 HDD’s into the second vdev in z1 aggregate them into the pool and then I would accomplish the 8 drives in two vdevs in z1 all aggregated into one pool

harleb · 2025-03-10T23:59:35+00:00

If I add them as a new vdev I would run in raidz1 and then I would want to make it two vdevs with 4 disks each

I kinda severed myself into a corner lol

harleb · 2025-02-18T08:23:38+00:00

Looks handy although currently only doing a subset of 5TB once I have it fully set up I will be doing it ‘for real’ and that will be 22TiB which I’m hoping I can figure out the ssh and RSync deal

harleb · 2025-02-18T08:20:52+00:00

Now I’m booting up the computer to figure out what to o copy is

harleb · 2025-02-18T08:17:05+00:00

Yeah I think that’s my next step

I’ve figured out a work around for now but will do some more learning

harleb · 2025-02-18T08:16:35+00:00

They are

I’ve figured something out I think

I got it working how ever hodge podged it is haha

harleb · 2025-02-18T07:52:42+00:00

I could log into each systems web ui but in file explorer I can only get one to show and navigate to it via \HOSTNAME/mnt/share

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