All it takes is one mistyped environment variable and hardware transcoding stops working.
Are you prepared to properly start a Plex server?
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 ...
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 ...