In the above you comment that there is no USB-C but there is a place on the front to put USB-C. Can you elaborate a bit more on adding a USB-C. Obviously through a PCI card, but am I missing something that is easier on this machine or something in place that I am not seeing? and.. Dire Straits was one of those new bands… that came out after i graduated…
You can add USB-C via a PCIe card, but you won’t be able to use the solder point on the front of the motherboard to add it.
Got the model in this post and followed the guide to get Plex up and running. I didn’t stress test the system but I forced 4-5 hardware transcodes on various systems and over cellular and it didn’t hiccup at all.
It plays well even while Plex is doing their new Sonic Analysis on my music which seems very CPU intensive (50-60% load for a couple days now, processing 3900 albums).
Thanks! This is much better than what my existing setup was.
What would you suggest to remote monitor this system? I use the Plex dashboard which gives CPU/mem/network but I’d like to be able to check NVMe temp and CPU temp.
Other things: I removed the OEM hdd as my particular one had bad sectors. I let my little boy take it apart and learn about the innards. I installed the 500 GB Crucial NVMe, a copper heatsink (NVMe hasn’t gone over 25C yet, seemingly), and increased the RAM to 12 GB. The drive capacity and RAM seem to be a little bit overkill (I’m not sure I’ve used more than 1.5 GB of RAM yet) but I figure they were cheap and it’s future proofing.
I run an InfluxDB container on my NAS, along with Grafana for monitoring. With that setup, you just have to install and set up Telegraf on your Plex box to write the data to InfluxDB, and then it will be available for Grafana to display.
I am looking to replace my 2012 mac mini with this as it is currently having difficulty playing some 4k remux files with rclone. I want to replace it and not sure if this would do the mac mini justice.
yes, i can confirm. I have to use fstab in my dockerized plex box. but i like to make things difficult and convoluted so there’s that.
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Are you transcoding 4K?
No I try and use direct play, but sometimes it has issues playing
You need to be sure you are direct playing and not transcoding. There should be no issue streaming direct 4k from that Mac Mini.
Sometimes it transcodes if it being shared remotely, nothing I can really do about that
Yes, you can - put 4k on a separate server instance, and disable transcoding.
Yes, but I am not sure at this point where the bottleneck is since I am using rclone to play this and it is not technically on my machine per se.
The bottleneck is that your client is forcing your server to transcode, most likely.
Potentially, the issue to is that 4k only supports mp4 for direct play on plex. All my 4k videos are in mkv file format
Is the need to watch on remote device temporary or more permanent? I look at transcoding as a crutches - helpful in a pitch (if format is not supported , if resolution is not supported on destination device, etc.). However, you are not going to go around on the crutches permanently?
- if the need is temporary, leave it as is
- if you know you are going to watch something (that natively in 4K and whatever resolution) later, transcode it once , store it in a separate folder and just direct play those files. i.e. If I know I will watch BD copies I have on smaller resolution device (while waiting for kids to fall asleep), I transcode it once on my gaming PC using nvidia card, store it , watch it, and then delete it when not needed.
Always transcode on the fly - why? Makes me very reliant on CPU load, connection ,etc.
Even attempting to watch them locally is a problem because they aren’t in the right format. I’d rather keep everything up in the cloud and just get a fast enough CPU to support transcoding and leave it at that if that makes sense?
Hey @UndSim : you are running Proxmox, right?
I got my system back from HP repair, and it’s better, because prior, I could get anything to SATA2 connector to show up, even under windows.
But now, I discovered that on Linux kernel 5.14 that drive “disappears” --but works fine on 5.10. Your Proxmox setup is on which kernel version --5.11?
I read about IDE drivers being deprecation in latest kernel, but this is a SATA drive–so I’m not sure if that’s relevant.
Anyone running Linux based setup on this machine with 5.14 kernel?
@Sea-Wolfe - yes I run latest Proxmox 7 (3 nodes, all HP S01-pf1013w) and uname -r shows me 5.11.22-7-pve
Ok cool.
I’m not sure if you are using all the internal SATA connectors. But if you are, you might want to stay on 5.11…that should avoid the problem I am seeing on 5.14 kernel.
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Thank for you public service announcement - I am using two out of two SATA connectors with no issue at this point on 5.11 kernel.
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