Lightweightness and lesser power consumption of Linux is also a question.
#PRIORITIZE PLEX ON MAC OS X MAC OS X#
Not sure about Handbrake that I also use quite frequently in short, any software I can have in Linux I can build in Mac OS X too, but not vice versa.ĥ. I rip a lot of DVD and Blu-ray discs with MakeMKV and there is no Linux build. Not that it's terribly important since my wife's Nissan Leaf will drive up the power bill anyway, but still that is something really interesting to try.Ĥ. A mighty useful feature at that, if I can make it work with my Customac: even more power savings than I could plan on initially. Bonjour sleep proxy, as far as I know, is a feature unique to Mac OS X. In any case, something as trivially sounding turned out to be surprisingly hard to achieve Internets were of no big help since the consensus seems to be that Linux works the best with HDDs never spinning down, and with the advent of SSDs who needs HDD sleep anyway? Well I do, since I plan to have a dozen 3.5" HDDs in the machine and it would be a wanton waste of power to have them all idling 99.999% of the time.ģ. Apparently something in the default ext4 prevents the disk from sleeping properly I surmise that it's the journal log being accessed periodically but have no hard proof. In my earlier experiments with XBMCbuntu I only could make a HDD sleep on no activity when it was formatted with FAT filesystem. There were several unknowns with Linux as Plex server one of the biggest questions is whether it is really possible to have it put HDDs to sleep. If not, let's say it was adult education.Ģ. I've already saved all that by investing some time up front into this Customac, if I keep it. I'm much less experienced with Linux and every time I need to do something with it I have to spend a ton of time reading the docs. I'm quite familiar with Mac OS X system administration and I do have several Macs in my household. Having said that, besides being a fun project for a couple of evenings, there are still advantages to be had if I can pull the Customac trick:ġ. I wouldn't even think of doing it if Gigabyte motherboard didn't happen to be the least expensive on Amazon when I ordered the parts, which kind of gave me the clue. I'd probably go with Ubuntu (and still may) but I happen to still wait for some parts to arrive so I decided to try my luck with Mac OS X. I assume I can't really achieve WOL if my Customac doesn't sleep at all, so that's ought to be the first step.ĮDIT: Forgot to add, I've installed the latest was the original plan, except that I couldn't really decide which Linux distro I dislike the least.
I can still ping the machine, SSH into it, etc - so, it doesn't sleep. However, sleep does not work at all - when I click the menu item, desktop is replaced with a black screen (I can still see mouse cursor) and that's it. Rebooted several times, seems to be stable and boots up very quickly with no issues.
#PRIORITIZE PLEX ON MAC OS X FREE#
I ran MultiBeast with DSDT free installation, and enabled the following drivers: Set xHCI to Enabled instead of Smart Autoīooted up the Unibeast installer from USB 2.0 port with "-x -v GraphicsEnabler=No" options.Īfter installation, it took me several tries but finally it booted up with "-x GraphicsEnabler=No" options. I've read some posts here in the forum dealing with mobo related issues, and I've adjusted the BIOS settings as follows:Ĥ. Power consumption is more of a priority (hence 4130T), and I would like to try and make WOL work, if possible at all.
This build is for a headless Plex server, so incompatible HD4400 graphics doesn't bother me much. GA-H81M-H + i3-4130T, Wake On LAN possible!Ĭustomac noob here.
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