Likely Readynas 3-series

janpeter wrote:
1) So little incentive for small office home to invest in ECC memory I guess? I work in the life science sector and people working with databases for genetic material etc are usually very keen to ensure ECC memory and often use ZFS systems. But I have not much of this kind of data on my desk.

Some high-end workstations support ECC memory, though generally it is a server feature. It does cost more, so Netgear choose to use it only on the high-end NAS. So you'd need an RN516 to get it (RN700 has it as well).

janpeter wrote:
2) iSCSI - can you sketch roughly what the main problem is with letting an aged Mac mini stand for the CPU-power and ReadyNAS 3-series for the storage of media using Plex? Much better to let ReadyNAS be the Plex-server in a stand alone way?

You can do this. We are just saying that iSCSI isn't the way we would do it. You can set up Plex to access the media even if it is in a normal share. Just mount the share on the mini.

FWIW Plex on my RN200 works quite well, and can transcode 720p acceptably. I suspect the 300 would be at least that good, though the 500 would be better still (giving you a second reason to go for it).