I really like the simplicity of the Amazon Firestick remote and Kodi interface so I want to keep using them. I bought a Plex Pass to accomplish this and am willing to purchase an unRAID license if that’s what I need to do. I figured the Firesticks are struggling to keep up at times and it would just be better to decode at the server and stream in the native resolution. What CPU and/or Graphics card would I need to do 1-3 decodes at a time on Plex? The Firestick does a pretty good job doing all of the work right now except on some of the 10bit, 480p movies, where there is some stuttering on one of my 1080p TV’s and occasional hiccups/brief pauses on movies from time to time. Is using a second, separate RAID 0 array for backup going to work for me? 2. I have two additional new 10TB HDD’s and my goal is to set up a new server that will run Plex and decode everything before it is sent to my Firesticks on a RAID 0 array of two 10TB drives with a second RAID 0 array that does nightly backups. I currently have an older Dell 1700 Workstation with a 10TB HDD that has my movies on it and an external 10TB that does a nightly backup of my library. I have two 4k TV’s and three 1080p TV’s and I only plan on watching my movies in their native resolution on my TV’s via Kodi on Firestick 4k’s.

I am revisiting this topic after a year because my storage needs have grown and I want to use Plex as the backend with a Kodi interface on my Firestick 4k’s throughout the house.įirst, my library consists mainly of 1080p movies with a few 4k and some older 480p TV shows.

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