Grant writing permissions for the transcoding directory.Tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,nosuid,nodev,noexec,size=64G,mode=1777 0 0 Setup the system to mount the RAM disk on every boot.Open in your browser and configure your server.You can keep ghost references to the mount points by adding -ghost in auto.master at the end of the appended line Autofs will automatically unmount all mount points if there is no access within 5 minutes and remount if you try to access the mount point.All your mount points are now available at /data/.

Append all your mount points at the end of the file, for example:.

Create Autofs configuration file for data directory.

Append the following line at the end of the file:.

Create mount directory and configure Autofs.

By default the plex repository source from the package is disabled (commented out), enable it in /etc/apt//plexmediaserver.list.

During installation you will be asked if you want to override the plex repository source with the one from the package.

sudo apt-get update & sudo apt-get install avahi-daemon avahi-utils plexmediaserver.

Install Plex Media Server + dependencies.

echo deb public main | sudo tee /etc/apt//plexmediaserver.list.

Use the following partition scheme (ESP size was suggested by Ubuntu, swap size is much bigger than usual because of RAM transcoding): Install Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64bit server version Update BIOS with latest from Intel’s website If you are looking for a single user setup this NUC might be overkill, the NUC i3 with 2 x 4GB RAM should be fine then. Transcoding a single H.265 4K HDR movie has ~35-40% CPU load. It is able to hardware transcode three H.264 1080p movies at the same time with ~30-35% CPU load. Fast enough to transcode multiple movies at the same time, almost completely silent in order to run it in the living room and power efficient in order to run it 24/7.

This hardware setup is meant to be an allrounder. 250GB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD (Samsung 960 EVO MZ-V6E250BW, Link).

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