Nas media server for mac3/14/2023 This setup works well for our viewing habits, which consists of a 65" LG OLED TV (NVIDIA Shield, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, webOS players (multiple clients for dogfooding), Harmony Hub w/ Elite remote, 5.1 surround), PMP on the same iMac, and 2 iPads. Realistically it tends to average around 85-95Mbps. ![]() In my neighborhood we have fiber-to-the-home with 100Mbps synchronous speeds. I’m a bit of a pixel peeper (thanks media OCD), so for big screen viewing I must Direct Play BD-rips. All media on my NAS is in MKV containers, BD-rips with all audio and subtitle tracks. I also have an off-site backup in the cloud with Backblaze where I store all our personal files, photos, videos, and more recently all the media from my NAS. For the purposes of a local backup I use 4x4TB WD MyBook external USB3 drives. Media is stored on a 4-bay NAS (WD My Cloud EX4100) using 4x4TB WD Red drives, also hard-wired to the router. I decided to focus spending on a new OLED TV rather than upgrade my PMS. I use a late-2013 quad-core i5 iMac for my PMS hard-wired to the router. You be the judge, as I’ve come to learn that one person’s modest approach is another person’s high end! ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m happy to share mine, which lands a bit on the modest side (at least in terms of CPU). I know some Plex employees have pretty beefy systems while others have more modest setups.
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