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16 days agoI’ll make the obligatory unRAID suggestion. It fits a lot of less intensive scenarios like what you’re describing. It does carry a cost, and the licensing model is “interesting”, but it has top-tier ease of use, especially around container apps. It would also allow you to use that 1tb ssd as a cache drive since the OS would run from usb (well, in-memory but stored on usb). You can also trial it for free for 30 days and if you don’t like it, there’s plenty of good suggestions in the thread already
Yeah, I’ve stopped using plex entirely. I was grandfathered in, but it just got to be too much nonsense. The license changes to unRAID don’t meet that bar, IMO. Yeah, the old license model is gone, but “buy once upgrade free forever” is what caused plex to go the route it did. I honestly never expected to get upgrades forever - I assumed that it would have to go one of a few ways for the devs to be able to feed their families, and what they choose is definitely one of the lesser evils. For a lot of use cases, it even makes sense. I stayed on 6.x for probably close to 3 years, so i would have saved money with the new scheme. I’m also willing to admit that if you’re truly dead set on free (both libre and gratis), then there are plenty of solid choices there, too