These are surprisingly hard to find, because a lot of places don’t make USB 2.0-capable drives, and even fewer make drives that have external power supplies. You’ll also need a USB 2.0-capable external hard disk drive (HDD) with external power, like this 8TB external hard drive. I utilized a CanaKit Raspberry Pi 4GB Starter Kit though they now come with 8GB Starter Kits which would also work for Plex Media Server though the extra 4GB of RAM is really a convenience factor for how quick the Pi operates other functions, not so much transcoding Plex which is uses an identical 1.5 GHz Central Processor in both models. For the rest of this article, I’m going to step through the process of how to set-up a Raspberry Pi 4 Plex Media Server.įirst, you’ll want to purchase the required material. So, if you’ve come here just to find that answer (which is surprisingly hard to find!), you’ve found it: Raspberry Pi 4 will run an internal Plex Media Server! Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk. However, if you plan on just utilizing Plex inside your home, then a Raspberry Pi 4 will work. That said, if you plan on streaming (or having others stream) your content from outside your home network, then you’ll want to stick with unRAID for your Plex Server.
A ten-year old unRAID server is still a little more powerful than what I would be using now, but Plex doesn’t require much power to run internal to your home network. With mini-PC technology having come so far in the last decade it seemed like the perfect time to switch to a much more elegant solution for my home server needs. I’ve been utilizng an unRAID server built from gaming computer hand-me-downs for most of my household work over the last seven years, but I’d grown tired of the $10–50/yr power costs to power the monstrosity.Įnter the Raspberry Pi 4. With The Office having left Netflix, I finally decided to do a technology refresh for my Plex Server, to make sure that it’s good-to-go and cheap to use.
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