Plex gotten around to av1 transcoding yet?

Works better for me, I do av1 which I don’t remember plex even supporting

HEY WANNA WATCH LIVE TV?

No thanks I have my offline files

LIVE TV LET’S GOOOOO

Yeah I got sick of feeling like it wasn’t my plex server even though I have plex lifetime pass. Have stopped using it in favour of jellyfin

Truenas is great for creating the zfs pool but I hated that I couldn’t also use the machine as a computer without making a vm, so I ended up exporting my zfs pool and then importing it on a Linux system with cockpit installed to keep a Web interface, definitely recommend looking into it

Fractal meshify 2 fits a bunch, I have the 2 xl which can do either 18 or 20 hdd from memory

I did the same as you, but wanted native performance on my Linux machine, so what was awesome was I was able to export my zfs pool from truenas and spool up a Linux distro and import it. There’s a project called cockpit and it has a zfs plugin which makes it easy to manage like truenas, but you can also use it as a whole ass pc at the same time