nas Looking for nas recommendations

[alexparham]

budget: £300 (including drive/s)

main use: plex server (4k streaming if possible) and remote storage / backups

update: considering a Synology DS218 with an ironwolf drive. just barely keeps within budget but after even more searching and a couple of messages from you lovely people this seems like a good choice. if you have any other recommendations please feel free to help me dodge a bullet

i am not particularly well versed in nas' and after a bit of searching i feel like i have come up short ? i am genuinely unsure where to keep looking or even how to tell if a nas meets my requirements.

minimum ram needed for quality streaming being a recurring one that has varying results

would any of the kind fellows in this forum help me on my endeavour 

Edited June 7, 2022 by alexparham
more info + thanks to users

[dizmo]

If you want help it'd probably be useful to give more details, like how many drives you want, capacity, etc etc.

Synology has always seemed like a good bet. Depends how involved you want to be.

[alexparham]

49 minutes ago, dizmo said:

If you want help it'd probably be useful to give more details, like how many drives you want, capacity, etc etc.

Synology has always seemed like a good bet. Depends how involved you want to be.

thankyou, sorry. for now i am going to only go with one 4tb drive for now but i would prefer a 2 drive system for the sake of future upgrading. i had a look at a few synology ones (DS218 specifically) and it does look good

[Captain Tight-Pants]

I'm in the US, so I don't know how prices/stock compares in the UK, but if you can get a DS220+ instead of a DS218 it will work better with Plex.  The DS220+ has a proper Intel CPU with QuickSync Video, which should work for hardware transcoding in Plex.  I'm running my Plex server on a DS418play, which has a slighter older Intel CPU than the DS220+, and mine works great for a few transcodes.