So, I am bored and ol Chuck is super knowledgable, but I was trying to think about these two and…well…
You folks that own them… how well do they run? Do they meet your needs?
What else do you do with them besides Plex?
How is the load and what can you NOT do with them?
Like I said… bored…working a billion things at once,so bored is not the right word… and I have QNAP on the brain so… you get a post and questions lol
In all seriousness, I am just learning the comparisons, but real world “how do they serve you” is important too. They are different, the B is better by all appearances, I am just stuck in a meeting (virtual) and so… I can post… cannot do much more… heh
Yea, I figured that out, thanks… sorry, did not post it.
The 453B would be perfect, but now I have another issue… good one, sorta…
The place I purchased the NAS from refunded the entire cost of the NAS as well as the protection plan… (did not refund the TAX but I figured not to push the issue heh…)
The said, “Donate the device, dispose of it, whatever you like.”
So, now I have a perfectly working NAS that will not run Plex, but if I sold it on Craigslist and got $350 for it, I would still have to form out a little over $400 for the 453B…so, that is not worth the trouble.
I would be better off buying a small 8gb intel device that would just run Plex… maybe a NUC with an Intel CPU 8gb of ram, windows 10 (would prefer pro as I can then remote into it instead of adding a keyboard etc)
So… is what it is. Cannot complain in the slightest. We shall see.
Another option - keep the NAS, and spend $200-300 and get an Nvidia Shield TV. You can use this both as a Plex Server as well as Client and it has HW Transcoding support for both. Keep your Plex media on the NAS itself and connect it via SMB to the Shield TV’s Plex server.
