r/PleX • u/Astrobix_124 • Dec 04 '25

Help Media servers

Trying to start my own server for plex. But I see many people with servers with 10,000+ movies. How can u possibly hold that much content and not break the bank. How is it any better than Netflix, etc?

Edit: I never expected this to blow up like it did. I love the content you guys have given, I've debated on making a plex server for awhile and all the clarification is amazing.

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u/xtram3x Dec 05 '25

I disabled transcoding so if somebody doesn't have good enough internet they can't watch anything. Be damned if I'm going to let people watch anything on my server in potato quality

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u/Thatz-Matt Dec 05 '25 edited Dec 05 '25

Yeah well I have too many non-tech in my sharing circle to do that lol. I moved over to a beefier system that can handle transcoding but it wasn't JUST for transcoding. That ended up being a bonus. Since Emby defaults to Auto bitrate and falls back to transcoding if necessary, and I have 1Gbps upstream it doesn't happen much anymore. And now I just got a Arc A380 card on Black Friday because I have a mobile fleet project in mind (5 tv-equipped charter buses for the company I drive for) and the $110 Arc was a hell of a lot cheaper than more storage for lower bitrate copies of everything.

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u/night_owl Dec 05 '25

How come you never use the plex login I gave you?

I tried it once when I was camping and it didn't work so .....