8gb of ram for server?

[oscar douglas]

I'm looking to build a home server to hold some downloaded moves and files, the network will have less than 10 people on it at a time, I have 8gb of ram on hand, is that enough to run it smoothly? Thanks for any replies

 

[captaincharisma]

in my opinion it would only be enough ram to have 2 simultanious uses streaming HD video from the server. for more users. if you are going to have close to 10 users watching 1080P or 4K video then go for 32BG of ram

 

[Solandri]

8GB should be more than enough. Plex recommends 2 GB, and user reports seem to agree.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200375666-plex-media-server-requirements/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/2s4ifc/how_much_ram_do_you_have_on_your_plex_server/

If you're planning on having up to 10 simultaneous streams, I suspect the bottleneck will be your HDD (can't keep up with reading multiple movie files simultaneously) or the CPU (if transcoding). Not RAM.