I’ve been running my plex server locally on my PC, with all media locally on hard drives
Now I’m thinking about moving all my media to a NAS to free up the disk space on on my pc itself
Anything tips or tricks I should look into when purchasing my NAS for the media share?
I’ve gone thru the NAS forums, so I got an idea on what to look at for the purchase, but I’m not sure if at some point I’d move the media server to the NAS itself, since it won’t perform as strong as my pc does for transcoding needs
When you set up the NAS, create a user account on it which uses an identical user name and password to what you use on your Windows machine.
This avoids trouble with Windows’ notoriously unreliable storing of network access credentials.
Thanks Otto
Yes, I was already planning to do so on that and mount it as a shared drive on my local PC. I guess more of my concern is performance issues with having the media on the NAS itself and picking a good nas to have it on.
I did have media on a WD Passport at one point that was UBS 3.0 connected, but I did see issues on it at times.
my older archives are on a 5400RPM drive (older model one) and it definitely lags interacting with it.
Rule #1: only use drives certified for NAS use.
Rule #2: don’t let your NAS spin down those drives. The increased wear due to those added power cycles will shorten the lifespan of the drives enough to counterbalance the potential energy savings
If you don’t let the drives spin down, the NAS will also react fast enough.
O yeah, no doubt. I don’t even power down my local drives as is…learned that lesson years ago
and definitely plan on getting something with NAS specific drives. I got my eye on a Buffalo one on amazon, 12TB, but the older reviews are saying they have desktop WD drives, newer ones are saying Seagate, so I’m definitely researching before I purchase the NAS.
