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For you Plex people, where do you actually host your content?

I have tried to go down this route before but don't know where the best place is to actually store stuff. Do you have a home server? Or pay for cloud storage somewhere? If you do the cloud thing how do you integrate it with Plex?

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I'm merrily running down the selfhosting/homelab rabbithole, so I have an Unraid server running on cast-off enterprise gear I picked up from my previous role. Storage is easily expandable as my needs change, it has straightforward docker support (which is great for, y'know, selfhosting).

I'm sitting somewhere around 20 TB used of 34 available, split between media libraries, backups from my homelab cluster (which I've been very lazy about setting up, so I could reduce the footprint), and network storage for my workstation and my wife's desktop.

Always on Mac mini / raspberry pi type setup works pretty well for these situations. It's not perfect, but often good enough for the occasional remote stream!

I just have a pi 4 with 2 usb drives attached. All my stuff is already transcoded well (I don't do 4k), so it doesn't really need to do much other than serve the files up. Works fine for me.

I run Plex on an Nvidia Shield and host the media on a USB drive attached to the Shield. I thought about going the Synology NAS route, but wasn't ready to pay that much.

Synology NAS - works great, scalable.

My seedbox is also my plex server. I've used it for many years.

unRaid server with ~100TB raw space.

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