Assuming I would go the Unraid route but would like to try the option of hardware encoding but build a system that is low-power is there any advantage of going Intel (for instance a laptop CPU with built in GPU) versus AMD - I am thinking about drivers & codecs etc?
The most impressive QNAP NAS models for Plex all seem to run Inte and I suppose there is some reason for this or?
Also is not the speed of Unraid streaming capped to that of a single drive (as no striping is used i,e, every file is stored on a single drive) - is this ok for any types of 4K media?
