Hosting your media in a subscription-free form, whilst it still being presented in the universally accessible and premium GUI form of Plex is one of the most compelling reasons for many home/prosumer users deciding to make the jump towards buying their own plex media server. Even when you buy movies and TV boxsets in digital download forms from Amazon Video etc, you are still at the mercy of 1) needing somewhere to store it if you do choose to download it and 2) potentially losing access to it if the site/platform you purchased from has lost the license to host it (a common complain of the increasingly digital world of PC/Console gaming, as games are pulled from eStores). The rise in popularity of streaming platforms like Netflix has also been accompanied by rising monthly subscription costs and rising concerns about never truly owning the media that you want o watch. The appeal of accessing all the movies, boxsets, music and home movies that you physically/digitally own in the style popularized by Netflix, Disney+ and Prime Video (flashy GUI, summary, all the box art, trailers, cast details, reviews and more) is undeniable.

Arriving with an embedded graphics enabled Intel Quad Core CPU, plenty of memory and numerous options for scalability, the TS-464 is going to be a solid system for 1080p and 4K multimedia natively, but then Plex is very different to typical/bog-standard media playback – stylizing itself much more than most. The new TS-464 is the latest release by the brand to produce a mid-range/prosumer NAS solution that can do a little bit of everything – and many users are wondering how well it can run Plex Media Server.

When it comes to buying your first NAS drive, very few NAS brands provide the level of hardware vs value that QNAP does.

7.2 Related How Well Does the QNAP TS-464 NAS Perform as a Plex Media Server?

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