Plex Media Server for NAS devices

Plex Media Server is available for many NAS devices, including:

Asustor (Intel, ARM)

Drobo (ARM)

Netgear ReadyNAS (Intel, ARM)

QNAP (Intel, ARM)

Seagate (Intel, ARM)

Synology (Intel, ARM)

TerraMaster (Intel)

unRAID (Intel)

Western Digital My Cloud

Information about other Linux-based NASs can be found on the Plex Media Server for Linux forum.

Limitations of NAS

While NAS is becoming more common in the home by providing inexpensive storage of media files with built-in redundancy options, most of them have limitations compared to stand-alone computers.

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Operating System Complexity

Most NAS runs the Linux operating system. If you are familiar with and familiar with Linux, then this is not a problem for you. However, most typical Windows and Mac users may not be familiar with Linux, so if they need to do anything complicated, they will run into trouble. If you don’t know what you are doing, even “simple” like finding a log file can be difficult.

Processor Power

The biggest limitation of most NAS so far is processor-based. Few NASs contain powerful processors, which can have a major impact on your experience with Plex.

In fact, every Plex application needs to transcode content at least some time. Examples of reasons why content may be transcoded:

Content is not fully compatible with devices (file type/container, resolution, bitrate, codec, etc.) when streaming to a phone, tablet or other devices.

Need to burn captions into video for display

The quality of the content is higher than the content requested by the Plex App (for example, remote or shared access).

In many cases, transcoding can be a very CPU intensive process. Many processors used in NAS do not achieve good performance when transcoding is required.

The NAS Compatibility List spreadsheet can help provide general guidance on whether to support a particular NAS model and how it can handle different types of transcoding. Please note that this is only a general guide.

Low-Power NAS

Some NAS devices – primarily those with ARM architecture-based processors – have low enough power to completely disable transcoding in Plex Media Server. For such NAS, if you try to play content that needs to be transcoded, you will only receive an error.

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