Today I want to go through my tips to help you improve your Plex playback performance (sometimes a little, sometimes ALOT) and help you enjoy all your media. Whether it is because your NAS drive is getting a little old, or because you bought one on a budget and it just isn’t powerful enough, there are many reasons why users want to improve the performance of their Plex Media server.

Whether it is because you get to play YOUR MEDIA without streaming from subscription services, or because the user interface and add-ons are just so darn good, owning and accessing your own Plex Media Server on a NAS is really appealing! However, as this kind of setup has been around for a few years now, we are starting to see performance on many NAS drives for plex start to dip.

Plex is this amazing application that we all know and love, letting us enjoy all our boxsets, out movies, our own videos and more. You mention only one stream, is it inside of your home network? Like server to TV or do you plan on watching on your phone while you are on holiday in a different place? If it is just in home, there is really no need to transcode.The Best Ways to Improve Plex Performance on your NAS drive Like would I be looking for like a 1650? at 3050, 2060? And once I put a GPU in would there be software that needs to be configured to force Plex to use the GPU? As I said, I am way out of my depth on this one so I am looking for a 'explanation for dummies'ĭo you even need it though? Are you watching shows at different resolutions that you downloaded them at? encoding/transcoding is in simple terms, changing the resolution on the fly. And what kind of GPU would I be looking for? 99% of the time my plex is serving one stream at a time.

I hear people talk about using a GPU for encoding on their plex server but I dont understand what that means or how you would set it up. Ok I am going to come out of the gates and admit I dont understand what people mean by 'encoding' when it comes to this topic.

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