Setting up a NAS as a Plex server is one of the best things about owning one — you get to build your own Netflix-style library with minimal effort. Plex automatically sorts and labels your media, ...

Plex Playback is an excellent video player and streaming platform but it is not gracious for all its users. Some of them reported that they get Playback Errors in ...

The DS419slim is a niche NAS and isn't designed to handle a suite like Plex Media Server. For starters, you've only got 512MB of RAM. That's nowhere near enough to run Plex comfortably. Then you have ...

Hardware transcoding unlike software transcoding, relies on the server’s CPU to convert media files into different formats, hardware transcoding offloads this intensive task to a dedicated component ...

Is the Synology DS420+ NAS good for Plex 4K playback? Best answer: Synology DS420+ can technically stream 4K media to compatible devices; just don't go and try to do some serious transcoding to ...