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Rack recommendations? - Enquiries - 02-28-2020
I've a rack cabinet at home, and a little Pi 4 running Plex on a single USB 3.0 HDD. I'd like to add in a NAS, but considering a rack mounted NAS for Plex as everything else is racked in there and it makes sense form factor wise.
Admittedly I believe these are underpowered for transcoding, however the only viewing I really do is on my TVs and Apple TV over Ethernet at home. Would a rack NAS be up for the challenge? And if not, could I use the NAS for storage only and let the Pi do the heavy lifting in terms of transcoding instead do you think?
I think I've watched every video you've made for the last 2 years or so but I can't find enough data to counter my inexperience and hope you could advise. Many thanks for your time, and great channel!
Rack recommendations? - ed - 01-12-2021
Looks like your TVs do support all media types you store and transcoding is not something you may need. In this case any NAS would do a job. But if you think you may want to access some media remotely one day then there are few models with built-in transcoding chip (TS-453DU and TS-451DeU).Otherwise, you can choose any other model and you can link it to your Pi 4.I hope this helps.