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Plex Cloud Alternative - ReadyNAS NAS Storage
Barb Gonzalez of SoundAndVision.com posted a great article about using ReadyNAS NAS Storage as an alternative to the soon-to-be-canceled Plex Cloud. We've posted a few snippets below. Read...
Cool, I have to pay more attention to readycloud. I'm stuck in the google drive universe.
netgear needs a new readynas hardware refresh with a Version 6 (Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake, Whiskey Lake) quick sync supported intel cpu, for 4k hardware transcoding support from plex.
Then you would have an ultimate plex server.
Direct 4k streaming (not transcoding) will work great from most os6 devices, but 4k content has exploded and while storing the content on a nas is great, not every client/tv device supports 4k and will need transcoded down to 1080 or 720.
Not to mention mobile streaming, no one is going to be direct streaming 4k from home to mobile over LTE any time soon, mobile streams will need transcoding support, and intel quicksync is the simplest way to get plex hardware transcoding support.
Netgear product development, are you listening!?!?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video
stock 528x 4)10tb drives
seems to work just fine to me. tested up to 6 local and 5 remote streems goin at once (ran out of devics)
not i use it as a back up plex server for my PE r710
but the 710 pulls all its data from the 528x and still nothing bad to say
sure, when used as a file storage server, its awesome.
its even pretty awesome when plex server is ran directly on the nas.
for 1080 content and below.
Please retry your streaming tests with 4k content transcoded down to something else (like mobile or 1080). while running directly on the readynas.
since there is no GPU on these nas, there is no plex hardware accelerated transcoding.
its not bad ...
no. theres no gpu nor is there one in my rig now
i have tested on 4 xbox1, 4 phones (all ios) 2 ipads and had 2-3 web gui running with nothing to bark about
no its not hard core testing but real world testing of asmuch as i can pull togeather in time localy and remote
the 528x worked well (i did see) if i was hitting the nas hard with other things large file dumps to it 300+gig or things like scrubing o ya i did see things going wrong there.. but as a home rig that is on all day long... for some one i would say 4 users or less on plex/ large file moves
its cheep to get started.
i can not speek for any of the slower smaller boxes i have a newer 4 bay ( the backup) and a older os4 4bay and a 2 bay i have (not) tested plex on..
So if you have a readynas and want to try plex i would say its a good small home and starter to get into it. and then can move on to cheep servers on ebay from there.
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