Hey everyone.
I'm planning on replicating the build in the video above as I've always wanted a 24/7 NAS, I mainly want to be using it for Plex but would also like just a standard NAS so I can create SMB shares and so forth.
Anyways in terms of hardware I really don't know where to start other than to just buy exactly what they used in the video with the exception of a better of the CPU being a 5600x (As I have one available to me) and I don't need that much storage so I'll be going with something like 5x 3TB NAS Drives (Seagate Ironwolf)
So in terms on OS I like the look of TRUENAS Scale as it seems really easy to use and set up especially for setting up Plex as a plugin/app rather than in a VM, I also would like to set up other stuff like PiHole.
My main questions are is there anything I should be aware of when taking on something like this?
I'm probably going to need to be using hardware encoding on Plex so does that mean I need a intel CPU to use quick sync?
Any tips and input would be much appreciated and sorry for the way this post as been typed but I have a lot of questions haha.