@will5234 said:
I am buying a NAS(DLNA) Server (NEED HELP)
I was looking at this brand and did not see it under compatible listing but in the information it says that it runs “PLEX”
https://www.amazon.com/Noontec-TerraMaster-F2-220-2-41GHz-Personal-Diskless/dp/B01M4IQ506/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1479546954&sr=8-5&keywords=nas+dlna
Noontec TerraMaster
Please let me know if this is good or not my price range is 100-180$ (I have some old hard drives I was going to toss in it)
Basically I will be using this for our in home network and remote network on PLEX
**Please let me know if compatible or not and how easy it would be…
Also Do these NAS servers take any SATA Hard drive?**
I think even if you get Plex Media Server installed on this low powered machine you are going to be very disappointed.
First, as has already been said, Plex doesn’t support the manufacturer, so getting a PMS install to work might very well take a herculean effort. One that most technophiles might not be able to do. (I wouldn’t want to try it, that’s for sure.) I know they claim it’s Plex ready on Amazon, but looking at their own website it’s not shown there. http://noontec.com.au/index.php?m=Product&v=Default&i=224
Next, once it’s installed, the low powered CPU means you aren’t likely to get much in the way of transcoding from the device. (I know, I hate transcoding, but there is always some that needs to happen, no matter how perfectly you maintain your media.) It has the J1800 CPU in it, which, sadly is WAY underpowered…
It’s about the same specs as the Asustor AS-500x series of NASes. So this means you can expect it to have about 1K passmarks. (remember, transcoding 1080p requires at least 2K passmarks for an 8Mbps stream…)
And if your budget is under $200 then your best bet is to use a desktop and add an external hard drive, IMO. Chasing performance with an under-powered NAS is going to be a nightmare. (Trust me, been down that road and it’s not pretty.)
If you put more money into the NAS itself you can get something that isn’t going to be quite so disappointing, long term: https://www.amazon.com/ASUSTOR-AS6202T-2-Bay-INTEL-Quad-Core/dp/B014MRW45U/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1479597447&sr=8-3&keywords=NAS+Asustor QNAP and Synology also have their own similar models. This one has about 1600 passmarks, so still underpowered, but much better than what you linked. With this you can do the media prep and reduce the transcoding requirements to almost nothing.
And I wouldn’t use any old drives in it at all. Only put new drives in it. Any issues with the NAS starting or reading the data and the likely issues are the old drives that have already burned through the MTBF when on your other devices.
