Hi
What is the cheapest, less power consuming Plex server?
Would that be some custom build PC, or is there an cheap NAS which more or less guarantied can handle 1 transcode with external subs?
Source will be 1080p around 10-12GB large, and it can be any type of subtitle.
Regards Lars
If you can build it yourself, I’d suggest you get a Thin-mITX board + M.2 SSD + Coffee Lake Pentium/Celeron + 4 GB (SODIMM) + one or two 4 TB 2.5" HDDs, you’ll have a $220 NAS (excluding drives) that’s small, ~10W idle, and much faster than all off-the-shelf NAS boxes in that price bracket.
I just remember that I have a Raspberry Pi II I can see that it can run Plex server, and can transcode.
But is it powerfull enough to do what I want?
I highly doubt that it can transcode, maybe theoretically.
Nvidia Shield: decent server and client for 200 €, storage not included.
Would that have to be Nvidia Shield Pro Media server?
Any Shield will work. I have the non-pro with 16 GB storage.
I have build a PC as Certuna suggest, and that is very acceptable price.
Sorry I’m not that knowlagable in Nvidia shield, so the Nvidia Shield TV like this: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815351013&cm_re=Nvidia_Shield--15-351-013--Product ?
Exaclty this. Keep in mind that it does not have storage, this you would need to setup additionally. This is the downside. Advantage is the Shield is one of the best Plex (and streaming in general) clients out there.
But if you solely need a server with storage you are probably better off building a server as @certuna suggested.
So can it both run the server and the client at the same time?
I don’t need storeage, got an old Synology for that 
The advantage of shield, is that I also can play games from my TV with it
Shield can transcode maximum 2 streams only but it’s the lowest power consumption compared to other custom built pc.
Thing to consider is, the combination of a Shield for transcoding/playback plus a (Synology-type) NAS for storage will consume more power and will be a fair bit pricier than a small-form-factor PC server/player. On the other hand: games. And no OS to install.
For what it’s worth, I’ve switched from a NAS storage + Kodi box to a PC + AppleTV setup.
Well the Syno NAS I have, will be running no matter what, if I went the PC way, the Syno would still be the storage bank. The added Gaming is what triggers me.
The downside is that I also have a UniFi Video server, which I will need some device for, Window or Unix as the Shield can’t do VM’s.
It sounds like OP already owns the NAS, so the 16GB Shield is probably the cheapest option for an all-in-one streamer and PMS.
Plus it’s designed to be a streaming box, so there’s no adding a generic PC remote and getting it to play nice with the OS/Plex/any other streaming services.
If the NAS is already a power cost, the Shield will be cheaper to add than a dedicated PC.
Nvidia currently fiddles with GeforceNow where you would be able to play certain games from Steam (like Fortnite, Counter Strike, PUBG) and more with your Shield. It is still in Beta though, will probably cost a dime or two when its launched but sounds nice.
The downsides of PMS on shield are getting less prominent (plugins not working, but they will be killed anyway).
The way I do it is my NAS is my downloader and subtitle retriever. And my shield just works as plain pms. Works best.
Thanks for all the help, and sorry my late reply.
I have now purchased a Shield, and activated the Plex MS.
I have added a test library, to which I have granted guest read access, but Plex sees no files, is there any trick to add the library?
Regards
Where are the files? Network storage or locally on the shield?
On a share on my Synology NAS.
Seems like a permission problem, are the files accessible from the network? Did you properly mount the share in the Shield?
It’s properly something with the last part. How do I mount the share in Shield? - If you mean adding UNC in plex, then yes, but if I need to mount it in shield, then no, I don’t know how.
