Locked NAS for home multimedia

[detroitdogg]

I'm looking to buy a NAS with 4 bays for my PLEX media server. Could someone "in the know" suggest a reliable but not too expensive brand/model? My house is cabled with a LAN connection in each room and I have four western digital 4TB harddrives.

Thank you any advice and help!

 

[vigipirate]

hello hello old office pc
ram max 16 go

true nas 13.0 ssd nvme cache pci express

 

[konohamaru]

Asustor Nimbustor 2

Model: AS5202T

 

[NGCC-1701]

True NAS core edition.
16GB of DDR4ram, AMD ATHLON 3000 CPU is minimum.
AM4 B450 ATX motherboard with min. 4 SATA3 ports (one port will be occupied with sata SSD 120Gb for OS), two hdd drives is minimum.
Brand name PSU 500W, ATX2.

Synology 420+ with 6Gb ddr 4 so-dimm is alernative.

 

[Yardfish]

I have been using TrueNAS (formerly FreeNAS ) since 2005 without a hitch...

 

[Charles]

I'd also say it depends on what you are planning on doing with it, and the amount of media you are playing with.
I have an 8th gen I7, 64 gigs of ram, with 2 TB SSD, A AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT and 15, 12 TB hard drives hooked up to it, as my home media server.
I have the video card in it for transcoding on the fly.
Here's proof.

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But, truth be told, I used my OLD PC to make this build, and a friend gave me the graphics card, when he "outgrew" it.
You can run a decent PlexServer off of a raspberry pi and an external hard drive.

 

[detroitdogg]

Thanx everybody for your input and ideas. Much appreciated