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

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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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[-] earmuff@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 9 months ago

So I‘m a Synology user for years (currently a DS921+ with a DX517 extension) and use it mainly to store movies/shows.

For you here are some things that might be useful to know:

Consumer NAS are massively underpowered in terms of CPU and RAM. Both is needes if you run a few Docker containers. Especially the transcoding of media files is very CPU intensive.
using a very small „compute“ node, like an Intel NUC, takes care of this problem. I run all Docker containers on this one, while I use the NAS only as storage.
Consumer NAS are super easy to setup and also to scale, in case you need more diskspace.
I was never a big fan of Plex for various reasons. I use Emby and I‘m very happy about it. I also hears many good things about Jellyfin

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