[finished, read edit in post.]What NAS to get for running plex and is there anything I should know? (aussie.zone)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by eatham@aussie.zone to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I want to make a plex nas so I don't have to deal with Netflix and streaming services, here are some questions I have.

What NAS should I get? I've heard Qnap is good, but I want to know around what nas I should get
Is plex somewhat simple to setup and is there other software I should look at?
Is there anything else I should know?

Edit: I ended up using an old laptop and running a file share from it then installing kodi on the other devices and using it as a storage point.

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[-] felbane@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I just had a db corruption a couple weeks ago, immediately after a server update. Easy enough to fix, but super annoying when you want things to "just work".

Like the OP, I'm getting tired and wary of Plex. The fact that they have a native app on most major TV brands is nice I guess, but I'm at the point where I'm seriously considering buying a handful of RPi compute modules now that they're available again and just changing all my TVs back into "dumb display" mode and running all media via the rpi.

I tend to get trigger anxiety on these things though, so I'd love to hear how other people are handling their self hosted media/streamcutting setups.

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