I immediately changed these four Plex settings, and my personal media server setup is all the better for it.

When Plex starts buffering or stuttering, it's easy to assume that hardware problems are to blame, especially if you're using a NAS. But that often isn't the case. With Plex, the overall setup is so ...

Plex's Internal Testing Confirms the QNAP TVS-x73 Series NAS Transcodes Video at the Equivalent Performance of two Simultaneous 1080p High Quality Transcodes POMONA, Calif, Aug. 15, 2017- QNAP, Inc.

I'm currently using Plex on my Synology NAS and I quite like it, but the Synology is just not up to the task for anything beyond basic transcoding. So I would like to create a dedicated server to ...