Its larger than some 4-bay enclosures, but you get the more ports youd expect from a NAS. Unless your willing to pay 000's for just the NAS enclosure that is. In typical Synology style, the DS415play is a plain but handsome-looking device. It streams to up to 5 devices in my home and 2-3 across the internet, not all at once obviously but I have had 3 simultaneous streams going while also playing League on my PC with no issues.īottom line, if you want/need to transcode then a separate mini pc/media machine is better as a NAS simply can not do it. At the moment for Plex I have 2 external USB 3.0 drives attached to my main PC (In sig) and the server runs on my PC. Although looking through I saw one of them could hold 4 bays. I was looking into the mini PC's on here, I may end up with a standard PC in a cube case as I would want more hard drives than the mini PC's can handle. Otherwise you will have to go down the same route as I will and build a separate machine for this. I have been looking into this myself and a NAS is just not feasible for Plex servers, you will not be able to transcode 1080p to a single stream let alone multiple streams on a NAS so if you have viable files that will use direct play instead of transcoding then you will be fine.
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