If your Plex streams keep buffering, the culprit might not be your NAS—it’s likely transcoding overload. By understanding how Plex plays media and optimizing formats, hardware, and settings, you can ...

One setting can completely bog down your Pi Plex server.

Plex's Internal Testing Confirms the QNAP TVS-x73 Series NAS Transcodes Video at the Equivalent Performance of two Simultaneous 1080p High Quality Transcodes POMONA, Calif, Aug. 15, 2017- QNAP, Inc.

I'm currently using Plex on my Synology NAS and I quite like it, but the Synology is just not up to the task for anything beyond basic transcoding. So I would like to create a dedicated server to ...