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Beware, Plex only runs off of USB and not NAS on the R9000
If you're thinking of getting the R9000 so you can get a fast WIFI router/switch (which it is) **and** retire your PC that's currently running Plex think again unless you have a small media library. It was quite the surprise to find that the version of Plex is limited to only accessing media that's on a USB stick attached to the router.
It goes without saying that I think the #1 required feature if you're going to promote your device to act as a Plex server is to have the ability to pull media from a NAS.
Where can you buy a 16TB NAS running Plex, new for less than $500?
Your response adds no value to this thread. One of the key features, which was co-marketed with the Plex team was it's ability to replace your standalone PC Plex server. People should be aware of this "BEFORE THEY BUY", especially if it's a feature that would otherwise expected to be present as is the case with all standard copies of Plex running on said PC Plex server.
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Where can you buy a 16TB NAS running Plex, new for less than $500?
Your response adds no value to this thread. One of the key features, which was co-marketed with the Plex team was it's ability to replace your standalone PC Plex server. People should be aware of this "BEFORE THEY BUY", especially if it's a feature that would otherwise expected to be present as is the case with all standard copies of Plex running on said PC Plex server.
virtualuk wrote:Where can you buy a 16TB NAS running Plex, new for less than $500?
Your response adds no value to this thread. One of the key features, which was co-marketed with the Plex team was it's ability to replace your standalone PC Plex server. People should be aware of this "BEFORE THEY BUY", especially if it's a feature that would otherwise expected to be present as is the case with all standard copies of Plex running on said PC Plex server.
Strangely enough my reading of the marketing info. lead me to think that the Plex library would need to be on locally attached USB storage.
I haven't seen 16TB external USB drives anywhere so that doesn't make sense and you still need to buy the external USB drives for this so the cost is higher than suggested.
Never the less I like the idea quite a bit but thinking about it there are a number of hurdles to overcome to actualy do this even to use the router instead of an existing NAS.
Typically there will be other related services running on such a NAS and AFAICS there's no way those other services could be run adeauately on the router so the NAS would need to be used for that.
Then there's keeping the USB drives (plural since there likley too small for a media library) up to date since the library would need to be duplicated elsewhere for backup purposes. And there are only two USB ports so if your media library out grows two external USB drives your stuck.
And then there's the transcoding that unfortunately needs to be done by Plex all too often.
I don't know if the router will be better at this than a NAS but given that transcoding a 1080p video on the 2.0Ghz quad-core NAS is barely doable and sometimes in just not enough makes me wonder.....
Ian
