Hello, I’m looking to upgrade my plex server to something small and low powered so I can run it 24/7.
Right now I’ve been using an old MS Surface Pro 1 (3rd Gen i5, 4GB RAM) and a USB external portable drive and it works fine for me, but the Surface is not long for this world.
I don’t know anything about the PMS server backend. I don’t know anything about hw or sw transcoding and I’m not currently sharing it with anyone so I’m guessing I don’t need anything too insane. All I know is I put video files into the folder, update my library and then watch on my phone or my TV. Pretty sweet 
As I said above what I’d like is something small and low power so I’m guessing a NUC, right? Or are there other minipc’s with low power draw? I’d probably just use with a usb external drive or maybe 2.5 internal hdd. I’m fine with 4tb of storage. FWIW I’ve got Plex Premium Pass if that matters.
I’d like to keep it under 500.
Thanks for any advice!
