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I blamed my NAS for slow streaming until I realized what transcoding was actually doing

Many things have to go right for your media server to serve files quickly ...
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Plex transcoding is killing your streams (and your NAS isn't to blame)

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 ...
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How to add Plex hardware transcoding to your Synology NAS for smoother playback

Hardware transcoding unlike software transcoding, relies on the server’s CPU to convert media files into different formats, hardware transcoding offloads this intensive task to a dedicated component ...
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Best Specs for a Plex server (with heavy transcoding)

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 ...