Why upgrading your cheap streaming stick is the ultimate fix for a buffering Plex NAS ...
All it takes is one mistyped environment variable and hardware transcoding stops working.
Hardware transcoding unlike software transcoding, relies on the server’s CPU to convert media files into different formats, hardware transcoding offloads this intensive task to a dedicated component ...
The TerraMaster F2-221 is designed to compete against the Synology DS218+, sporting the same Intel Celeron J3355 processor, 2GB RAM, transcoding support for various formats, and two drive bays. The ...
tl;dr is: scrounge up some hardware, preferably on a recent-ish Intel platform with an igpu (i think 8th gen+ is the sweet shot), and then get a slew of storage. Pick a base operating system (I like ...