Depending on how many movies you’ll want to store, you may need a fairly large hard drive.

You’ll also most likely want a large USB memory stick or USB hard drive to hold all of your movies, TV shows, and music. I really recommend going with the fastest Pi out there and getting a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+. To get started with this project you’re going to need a few things. RELATED: Setup the Best Raspberry Pi Plex Client Setting Up a Raspberry Pi Plex Server Plex has clients for Apple TV, Roku, XBOX, iOS, Android, and just about anything else you can think of including Smart TVs! For the longest time Plex was only available as a client for the Raspberry Pi, but that’s all changed and its time to learn how to setup a Raspberry Pi Plex server! It’s elegant, simple, and works with almost every streaming device and console around. Indeed, we here at The Geek Pub run Plex as our media server of choice. The Plex media server is probably the most popular home media server software, right next to Kodi and XBMC.

Plex media server hardware setup