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.

  1. What NAS should I get? I’ve heard Qnap is good, but I want to know around what nas I should get

  2. Is plex somewhat simple to setup and is there other software I should look at?

  3. 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.

  • bestusername@aussie.zoneEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    Build a basic i5 desktop.

    It’ll cost less, be much faster and easier to upgrade; the “NAS” platform is so overrated.

  • BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.comEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Is plex somewhat simple to setup and is there other software I should look at?

    Yes, it’s rather simple to install. I don’t know where your “family videos” come from, but if you want to automate the download process you can take a look at Radarr and Sonarr (also known as the Servarr stack)

  • niisyth@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    I bought an old business HP 3500 Pro ans have been running jellyfin and a number of socker containers from it. Plus it is quite upgradeable since it’s just a pc, and cost me just 100 CAD.

  • earmuff@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    2 years 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
  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    21·
    2 years ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    NUC Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers
    Plex Brand of media server package
    RPi Raspberry Pi brand of SBC
    SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage
    SBC Single-Board Computer
    VPN Virtual Private Network
    k8s Kubernetes container management package

    7 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 9 acronyms.

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  • 0x0@social.rocketsfall.netEnglish
    0·
    2 years ago

    Do you need streaming?

    Direct file playback via Kodi is better in every way IF all you need is local playback within your LAN and have devices that can run it. If you’ve got decent upload then it’ll work outside of it, too. Kodi also supports syncing between devices if you set up a MySQL database. Definitely not as simple as spinning up Plex/Emby/Jellyfin, though.

    • xia@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Very freedom-respecting. Probably the only consumer NAS vendor with instructions on how to install linux (bare-metal) on the official wiki. Their x86 boxen are 90% normal pc… with the remaining 10% being a bit nuisance.