What CPU for NAS?

[hbsterling]

I am planning on building a NAS on a mini itx motherboard. I basically am going to use it for Plex. I was thinking about using the ryzen 3 2200G cpu. Is this a good choice for what I want to do or does it make sense to go with an intel dual core cpu?

[2FA]

If you want hardware accelerated transcoding, Plex only supports Intel QuickSync and Nvidia NVENC. You can otherwise get around transcoding by having your media in direct play friendly formats. It's a perfectly fine CPU for the use case provided you aren't expecting to transcode more than a few streams simultaneously.

[Velcade]

https://support.plex.tv/articles/201774043-what-kind-of-cpu-do-i-need-for-my-server/

 

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Ryzen+3+PRO+2200G&id=3216

[Velcade]

If you don't already have the CPU, look at older Xeon e5 chips.  They have plenty of power for multiple streams.

[hbsterling]

7 minutes ago, Velcade said:

If you don't already have the CPU, look at older Xeon e5 chips.  They have plenty of power for multiple streams.

What clock speed/ # of cores would you recommend? 

[Velcade]

26 minutes ago, hbsterling said:

What clock speed/ # of cores would you recommend? 

What's your use case?  1, 2, 3, 400 streams? What's your resolution?  You pushing 4k? 1080p? 720p? 

[hbsterling]

25 minutes ago, Velcade said:

What's your use case?  1, 2, 3, 400 streams? What's your resolution?  You pushing 4k? 1080p? 720p? 

Maybe a max of 4 streams and 4k would be nice but 1080 is not terrible.