What is the best home wifi storage to use for Plex? I had ordered a used My Cloud (from Western Digital) from Amazon. Then I read reviews on it that said it was horrible on Plex. Luckily I was able to cancel it. The good thing is since it was used, I could have saved about $80. But that doesn’t matter if it works horribly with Plex.
So any suggestions? I would prefer Wifi, but …
As long as you have a router with WiFi, you can use any product you like. Because you can connect any NAS device per wire to your router.
And there is no such thing as “best”. It all depends on your requirements.
It’s just that several people have said My Cloud does not work well with Plex at all
If you are running the plex server directly on it.
If you however are using it only as a media file storage and install the plex server software on your PC, you should be good.
NAS devices which are strong enough to run plex server, are much more pricey. And you need a Plex Pass as well, in order to utilise the hardware transcoder which may be built into them. Otherwise they may be still too weak to do proper transcoding.
You may want to give this a read: (follow the links in it)
My original thought was to use the device as a server, I guess with an IP address that I could map a drive (say J) from my PC to, copy the file to J: and then change my plex library to be J:. You think that would work?
If the Plex server is running on the NAS itself, then mapping drive letters has nothing to do with operating Plex on it.
Mapping the drive letters will only make it easier to copy files to it from your PC.
Simply because drive letters are a Windows “thing”, But the operating system on these devices is either Linux or Android.
What you are describing with “simply changing the media location to J:” makes only sense if the server is remaining on the Windows machine and the NAS is only acting as “media storage”. But all the metadata will remain stored on the PC. All the transcoding will also be done by the PC. All this solution does is to provide more storage space for media files, if the PC is already full.
My hard drive is full, and I wanted a lot more storage.
After this conversation however, I may consider also running Plex on a different machine,
but that was not my original th
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