

- Hardware for plex media server install#
- Hardware for plex media server upgrade#
- Hardware for plex media server trial#
- Hardware for plex media server series#
Hardware for plex media server series#
With their long-term dedication to computer video assistant, specifically the video quality enhancement, undoubtable the NVIDIA GPU series would be one of the best option. NVIDIA's Graphic card take the advantage of its first mover advantage in video encoder/decoder domain.
Hardware for plex media server upgrade#
Hardware for plex media server install#
If you Windows computer has NVIDIA or AMD* GPU, you are recommended to install the latest NVIDIA drivers for Windows or AMD drivers for Windows to make sure that Plex can transcode using GPU when Intel Quick Sync Video is not unavailable. 2nd-generation Intel Core (Sandy Bridge, 2011) or later (5th-gen Broadwell or newer is preferred).For Plex GPU transcoding, make sure your device meet the following requirements. It's available in Intel Core (i3/i5/i7/i9) processors and some other Intel processors, including recent Xeon, Atom, or Celeron models. Plex Media Server's GPU transcoding uses Intel Quick Sync Video for decoding and encoding. By offloading CPU-intensive transcoding tasks to dedicated hardware, video streaming has less of a performance impact on your computer.Support 4K HEVC streaming for better graphic performance and more smoothly.Unparalleled steaming efficiency and speed, videos can start streaming faster and buffer less often.

Hardware for plex media server trial#
If you have a possibility to try unraid on baremetal, give it a try with the trial the offer. In DSM / Xpenology it is quite hard to get it work altough DSM is (for me) a much better / prettier system as Unraid.

I think if hardware support is a mandatory, you should think about unraid - unfortunately. I have also been thinking of possibly building a newer NAS with some dual cpu e5-2680's and moving to Unraid and exploring my options there as well.

Ideally I would love to get hardware acceleration working but ultimately if it's too difficult then I may just have to scrap the idea. I can follow write ups and how-tos, but anything more advanced I have to do a lot of digging to make sure I do something to mess up the whole NAS I already have set up. Honestly I'm not very well versed with the whole NAS environment.
