NAS for Plex

[Enquiries]

Hi,

I have bought The Terramaster F6-424 for use as a Plex server. Iv'e read all your guides and reviews which are fantastic - thanks! I would like some guidance on getting the best performance. Do do think I should install the Plex app and TOS app on one of the NVMe SSDs (I have 2 x 2TB) for the best performance for Plex? If that's the case would you suggest that I use one of them for cache or set up in RAID? Or leave both for cache?

Thanks so much,
Mark

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Thanks for your message, and great choice with the TerraMaster F6-424. It has plenty of power for Plex, especially when you use the NVMe slots wisely.

You don’t need to install Plex or TOS directly on the NVMe drives, since the OS automatically lives on the first storage pool you create. The best approach is to create your main storage pool with the HDDs and then use the NVMe SSDs as a read-write cache. This speeds up metadata access, thumbnails, and general Plex responsiveness when browsing or streaming multiple files.

If you want even faster performance for editing or direct streaming from SSDs, you could instead create a small separate NVMe storage pool and store the active Plex database or transcoding folder there. For pure media playback, though, using them both as cache is simpler and works very well.