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Originally Posted by MrCallahan
Does the Synology act as your Plex server too?? It's been on my to-do list for quite a while to buy a NAS to build a Plex server. But I've been torn on the various models to get. Are there NAS devices that are capable of transcoding 4K without issues (and host a couple VM's)??? ideally that's what I'd like for my personal use, and would probably limit the resolution to anyone that I would allow to connect to my media server. But also wondered if it'd better to do a custom build, and use an open source NAS OS (least preferred...don't want to spend too much time tinkering to make things work).
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Transcoding 4K isn't really a thing right now, even with the most powerful CPUs. Plus you wouldn't want to watch transcoded 4K anyway, on a non-4K screen the image will be very dark and muddy without HDR
As for the host, the Synology can be your Plex server, but it would only really be suitable for in-home direct play streaming. I snagged an old Dell micro form factor PC from work with an i7 in it which acts as my home server. You can usually find old work PCs on Ebay with decent processors in them for cheap, I'd recommend that for the Plex server itself if you want multiple transcodes