How To Upgrade Your Plex Server With A New NAS!

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[@Rkiver]

Love Plex, been running it for years on my truenas server, it's such an easy setup.

[@derradune6722]

Thanks for this video. I use Plex but my videos are all stored on an external hard drive connected to my PC, which isn’t ideal. I’d thought about installing a NAS but it’s always ended up in my “too hard” basket. This has been the inspiration I need to go ahead and do it.

[@nachobel]

I also grew up with The Last Unicorn and can straight up quote it from memory. I watched the VHS so much it wore out. I got the DVD when I was in college - game changer. I want to say this may have been the first movie I ripped to my Plex server way back in 2012....

[@ricter591]

I just got a UGreen DXP4800 Plus and this sounds like it would be great to run on it so I'm going to give it a try, thanks so much for the info.

[@hakannorlings2439]

The best and only hard-drives to put in a NAS is Seagate Ironwolf!

[@ShannonMorse]

I've been using WD Reds for over half a decade but to each their own. :) I don't have any brand loyalty in terms on HDDs, I just choose whatever I know will work.

[@garynagle3093]

I have had very good luck with WD red. Never a fail. But to each his/her own.

[@thetoxicend612]

The only drivers that ever failed for me were my Seagate Ironwolfs, after 3 failures i switched to wd Reds and also try buying different drive batches from different retailers to keep the chances for multiple failures down.

[@JK-mo2ov]

I have WD Gold they had for 50% off a while back. So far so good :-)

[@slisyd]

ironwolf pro :P

[@CptFUBAR]

Just started hitting limits on my first server set-up, this is perfectly timed! Thanks!

[@ShannonMorse]

Oh dang, am I psychic? lol

[@Scott-ph2yk]

Great video setting up Synology NAS running Plex. Another great option is to repurpose a PC by running TrueNAS with Plex installed. This can be a great low cost, easy to use system that will come in at a reasonable price point. Fast, stable, and easy to set up. It could be a good alternative solution.

[@ShannonMorse]

For sure!! That's a great option if you have an old PC just collecting dust

[@alessandrosanna6962]

Whatever you don't spend on the purchase cost of the NAS, you end up spending on electricity.

[@NTipton90]

Good stuff! I see tons of people recommend people start using Plex and stop the conversation there, so it's great to have something simple, but dense with information to start pointing people to as a reference. I've also never seen that spreadsheet, so I'll be excited to find and dig into that.

[@Cemilaws]

did you find the spreadsheet ?

[@garynagle3093]

Great overview. I went through this same process last year. Great tips on the port forwarding and keeping the name the same.

[@jiho2004]

Glad to see someone likes “train to busan”😊

[@beauslim]

Good stuff. My only addition is that some drives are louder than others, and if someone keeps their NAS next to a TV as a media box, they might want to go with fewer, slow, and quiet instead of many, fast and noisy drives.

[@zenbran]

Watching this now been looking into getting a Nas or building my own. But saw you mentioned The Last Unicorn. And I just saw it’s supposed to get a 4k Bluray remaster releasing August 20th

[@JAIVS26]

Nice video tutorial like always!! Let me know when you put the old Synology NAS up for sale 😅

[@ShannonMorse]

I'll post it on Twitter! Probably in November as I'm busy getting ready for a trip. I'll be in Japan for most of October

[@JAIVS26]

@@ShannonMorse sounds like a plan. Have a nice trip, I'll be waiting for the vlogs. Trip to Japan is the number 1 on my bucket list

[@slisyd]

Would love a video of making a plex server with your own hot swappable drive chassis and putting all the parts in yourself.

[@KevinLudwick]

How did you know I need to upgrade? This is great, thank you!

[@ShannonMorse]

Glad I could help!

[@eymushu]

Hi Shannon, I wanted to ask about my plex server NAS. I'm saving all my files on one NAS server RAID 5. On my Plex account i have setup 2 server. 1 is on the NAS as an app for HOME use (with remote access) and 2 running on a Intel i9 PC for external use - both are going to the Share folder of the NAS drive. My question is, only from home on TV at home, the app takes more than a minute to open to show the content. searching for a title is very slow. I don't know were is the problem, I'm thinking maybe the XML file on the NAS? At first only the NAS server was running it worked good. But from external it didn't worked fast. I added the new server and removed the NAS. than i had pauses at home. so i kind of re-connect the NAS back. thanks

[@CyclopsPhotog]

How are you doing hardware transcoding? I thought the new Synology boxes didn't have Intel chips and don't support it.

[@ShannonMorse]

I bought a slightly older Synology has that still had the correct cpu 😉

[@tonyvink961]

Nice video. I have been a Plex user for years but have never made it accessible beyond my home LAN. I would like to but have concerns about security. What are your thoughts? ( maybe would make a good video? ) Thanks, Tony

[@tuborice4571]

I use Seagate exos 20tb drives in mine. Asustor 6bay gen 2. Its the quietest nas ive experienced. I only use the for storage but have an optiplex 3070 9th gen intel i5 with quick sync. It does the job with a raid 5.

[@clansome]

I have a Plex server within my HTPC. I have some much larger drives ready 2 x 14TB and 2 x 12 TB ready for a NAS but currently all my data is on my HTPC is on Windows. Have you ever done a video about transfering data on a Windows PC to a NAS where I would probably want it in RAID 5. I'm a bit paranoid about losing data which has been collected over many years.

[@jeffhale1189]

Thanks for sharing: very informative. Blessings on your day!

[@BrianGlaze]

So thorough! Well done Shannon. Felt like I was watching a lecture, and thats a good thing lol.

[@ShannonMorse]

Wow, thank you!

[@joem4632]

DS920+ appears to be the best 4 disk nas for plex but is no longer available. What NAS do you recommend? DS423+ or DS923+?

[@howardtodd8497]

How do you change your volume sizes without installing larger drives? My video volume needs more space, whereas my data volume is to large.

[@digitalalchemy6414]

Like my plex server... but they really need to stop adding 'crap' and make it simple and work without an internet connection again.

[@Soupy101]

Have you considered jelly fin?

[@itunedyou]

Thanks Shannon can this Nas transcode on the fly? Eg HD to SD in a stream & or change to different fil formats. Or would I need separate encoding software that needs to convert the file before streaming? Im new to this, please excuse if its a silly question

[@ShannonMorse]

Yes, I chose this NAS specifically because it can do transcoding, along with the upgraded speeds and hardware.

[@DavidMander-rs4uk]

Have to say amazing looking hair Shannon 😃

[@sparkerb2631]

If you have a very large library.. you need backups. I use unraid with a P2000 graphics card to run plex.

[@AdrielVelazquez]

My Plex Server is always my old laptop. Just attach an external HDD, and it's great for our needs.

[@IsmaelLa]

Although I use unRAID, this is a very insightful video. Thanks for the information!

[@jimjones1586]

how do you duplicate drive names and metadata as I tried copying mine over from my old synology nas to my new one with no success.

[@weswillis]

If I had a mac mini, with nothing to do, would it be better to run plex media server there freeing the up the processor on the NAS? Or is there a trade-off that negates this because the storage is on a different machine?

[@MrRogermash]

Great video.Very helpful

[@ShannonMorse]

Glad it was helpful!

[@rerunx5]

Well done video. Thanks for the informative content.

[@djobitwan7]

Love what you explain, but.....would you happen to have steps for someone like me who just bought a NAS (Synology DS1522+) and I used to use my PC for the PLEX server (was trying it out), but now when I migrated all of the media files over to the new NAS......if I shut down my PC, everything disappears. I am doing something wrong, but not sure why. Any step by step instructions would be great. Thank you for this video though. I am still very new to this.

[@JasonsLabVideos]

Good video Shannon !!

[@bennielaars]

I'm still very new to this as I never bothered to use my Synology DS215j as anything other than network storage. But it just collapsed so I now need to upgrade. Since all my media on there play fine on my (old) LG and Samsung TVs, even 4K h265 on the LG, do I need the pass or can I just use the free version?

[@JonathanDoyleMusic]

zip or gzip wont usually make media files smaller so wont speed the transfer up (you can't easily compress binary). a tar will allow you to backup only one file instead of many, but with files of that size you aren't gaining anything I don't think.

[@janokartal5690]

Nice Shannon

[@clarkjuezan6559]

Zip or tar on each and every movie file? Or the one big folder? That would be too extreme to deal with.

[@SaffronPaprika]

Nice you also like How I met your mother tv show.

[@ShannonMorse]

Yes I do

[@RichAckerman]

Does it really matter for NAS drives if you use CMR or SMR?

[@pacra2nd]

The rebuild it significantly slower for SMR which can and often is risk. so yes.

[@Risket]

My NAS is at least 12 years old 😭 I really need to think about trying to upgrade soon!

[@hackerman.1337]

jellyfin gang here!

[@ShannonMorse]

OMG yall told me about jellyfin after my last video and I am a huge fan.

[@TheBeardedLibertarian]

So I off loaded Plex to a mini computer using Ubuntu/Plex it has 2 2.5 gbs nics which connect to a 2.5 switch that my nas is connected to, nas has 2 2.5 nics also. Plex media folders are smb shares on the nas. The computer is an Intel cpu with graphics about 150 on Amazon

[@TheBeardedLibertarian]

Changed to NFS shares, much faster

[@tuborice4571]

I dont understand how my tablet shows remote on the same network as my server as Plex shows this as nearby. Ive port forwarded the servers ip with the 34200 but still nothing has chenged the tablet stating remote. Im not very tech savvy lol

[@m.b786]

i have a DS920 but my hardware transcoding is wierd on docker :| some clue :P i use jellyfin server in docker but i dont think jellyfin use the hardware transcoding :|

[@shetuamin]

I never backup plex data files, just run library scans for all media.

[@bobbray9666]

I have the DS920+ which has the same CPU as your DS423+. I was going to upgrade to the DS923+ but Synology is moving towards AMD without a GPU. I'll stick with my DS920+ until it dies and move from Synology if they don't reintroduce CPUs with GPUs. The new DS7.22 OS pretty much confirms Synology will continue to add cheap and outdated CPUs and drop transcoding to allow their feeble CPUs to operate the NAS "more efficiently" yet charge high prices. This will end consumer Synology products in a few years as other NAS competitors figure out a better OS, which is the only reason Synology sells well for consumers.

[@MartinRojas]

Liked most of the detail, but find it weird that even though you are using synology for their "special sauce" decided to stick with RAID instead of SHR, and also for the drives if you are looking to save money go for the enterprise version. They are cheaper than NAS versions and have better performance and warranty. i.e Exos over Iron Wolf.

[@ShannonMorse]

If you're going for cost-effective, then definitely look into SHR and enterprise hdds! I have a personal preference for wd reds as my old ones lasted me well over half a decade (plus some!) and they're what I've been buying for a long time, and I was able to find mine on a really sweet deal. But yeah, if you don't have a personal preference you can definitely choose different drives!

[@ClaudeAlexandreRochatProfile]

You have a good point, SHR is much more flexible. Raid is in my opinion not recommended unless you rely understand the difference. Also make sure to buy one with hardware transcoding if you don't want your CPU to go to 100% usage every time you play a video.

[@william18miller]

@@ClaudeAlexandreRochatProfilethis was specifically mentioned in her video

[@GameKingFaiz]

6:12 I've read lots of bad things regarding SSD caching on Synologys, so buyer beware on that feature.

[@wilgarcia1]

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[@LazyJones]

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