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Originally Posted by Ripplinger
I hated that Plex wanted to scan every single directory on my hard drive and list every video file it found, it would take forever to keep scanning the drive, including when it was adding new content. And sticking in the .plexignore files into all my directories got old fast. Maybe it's improved since the last time I tried it, but I really didn't like the layout of it at all, including having to use a browser as the interface. Maybe I'll take a look at it again, but Serviio has always been much faster all around for my systems and my use.
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I've been using Plex for quite a long, time and I don't remember the server component ever trying to scan the entire hard-drive. Must have been very early-days. You tell Plex where your various media is--or will be--stored, by defining media libraries. You can also set how often the libraries will be scanned for new media.
My Plex server runs on my main Linux PC that I use for just about everything: programming/compiling/calibre-ing/Sigil-ing/transcoding/browsing/downloading -- all without breaking a sweat. So I don't really consider Plex as needing a "dedicated" PC, as much as it needs "A" PC to install it on.
But I'm not here to try and convince anyone. Surely everyone is as happy with their setup as I am with mine.
(Oh, and you don't HAVE to have an online Plex account to get things to work. Almost all the clients have the ability to connect to one manually configured Plex server)