I have a cheap dedicated plex machine at home, a Lenovo m70q with 8gb of ram and a I310100T, same size as the mini, consumes 10-15W on average, I would recomend something like this over the mini for the following reasons:

Depending on where all your data stored, you could use your hard drive formatted in NTFS using NTFS for Mac, or I might recommend a second hard drive again utilize the NTFS drive and NTFS for Mac and transfer the data from one hard drive to the second one. What I could recommend is running real RealVNC server on the Mac mini and then you could use anything from a computer to an iPad or an iPhone to connect to your Mac mini just in case anything was to come up. The server software updates every few weeks. I use an M1 Mac mini to run my Plex server. I have a large HDD that I use for our personal content/media.ġ- has anybody been successful in moving there plex server from a windows machine to a Mac silicon? Plex says it’s basically near impossible.Ģ- do you run into the occasional problem or is it smooth sailing? I will occasionally be traveling and will not have access to my server. I have a Mac Mini M1 (8/256) that is not getting any good use and I’m thinking about moving my plex server to it. The nuc is starting to show its age and is incredibly loud even when it’s not doing anything. Im currently running a plex server for three users (mostly direct streams with some encoding streams) on my intel nuc.

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