I’ve had plex and the arrs going but without a VPN (USA), got hundreds of take down notices sent to an old email address and went to spam folder, and two personal paper letters from ISP. I decided to shut down the arrs and haven’t torrented in about a few months.

A few weeks ago I added someone on plex to share my media with. Just got a 3rd letter from my ISP for sharing media. Plex is the only thing running that could cause this.

Time to finally shut it down and load Jellyfin. It’s been coming for some time; but this is the nail in the coffin.

Build it and they will come.

Was it worth it?

Drillbit takes care of that nicely.

I started with a Pi 3b+ for a plex server, plugged into my TV as the client player too. With a 2tb USB hdd. It handled most video OK, but only had upto 1080 video files. It just wasn’t quite powerful enough to do the job WELL. Slowed with age too.

After a few different builds, I’m now running headless on an older HP Z400 laying around, slightly older than your pc laying around. Handles multiple plex clients well, while downloading 100s of torrents and copying to several drives all at the same time. Handles it like a champ. Power hungry though. ~90w at idle with 1ssd and 3internal hdds and 2external hdds. ~180w at its higher loads, usually around ~120w with one client playing and no downloads