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Originally Posted by Brendone
Thanks, thinking dedicated NAS is the route I want to go. A lot of options out there. Looks like most don’t come with the drives so you determine the capacity, up to the device max (WD My Cloud, Synology, TerraMaster, etc). Buffalo seems to come with drives but not huge capacity.
Any experience with any of these? All seem to have similar features.
Any advantages to going with Unraid? edit - doing some reading.... seems like a more flexible system when it comes to storage size and recovery, but you essentially build a PC with the attached drives and run using the Unraid Operating System (probably over simplified it).
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Depends on how much you want to learn and manage yourself. I have used Synology, QNAP, WD, and Unraid before. Stick with the most popular ones so you have the most community support and software plug-ins you can take advantage of.
Synology and QNAP give you the easiest system to set up and use, but limits your flexibility cuz you will be stuck with their hardware and specs.
Unraid, which is what I am using now, will run on any computer hardware so you set up, spec out with enough power for your server as you like, but will be a bit more complicated to set up. You won't have to do anything in command line or the like except for more complicated use cases, but you may have to watch some YouTube videos or read some wikis to get things set up right for a Plex server.
Another thing to consider is how much you want to spend, what format you will be storing your media in mostly, and what devices you will be playing your videos on. That will factor into which you choose cuz you may need powerful enough hardware to transcode between different video codecs