I spent some time putting together some potential custom mini-itx builds, but in the end, I couldn’t quite find the right combination of components that would be small and light enough and still powerful. I wanted the server to be small, I wanted the server to be silent, and I wanted it to be powerful. I decided to build a small server to handle all of my Plex needs. I bought a Synology network attached storage device some while back, and I started experimenting with running Plex on the NAS itself, but the NAS doesn’t have the CPU power to do any sort of intense real-time transcoding. Plex makes clients for iOS, Mac, PC, Android, etc. It can process multiple streams at once, assuming your hardware is capable of handling it. It has the ability to transcode media on the fly, adaptively taking a 1080p blu ray rip and streaming it at a lower resolution / bit-rate to your phone on the other side of the country. Once you get all of your movies, TV shows, music, pictures, etc, nicely organized, Plex Media Server is a tool to stream that content to a variety of devices, whether it’s the family TV in the house or an iPhone on the go. Well, it’s awesome assuming that you either take the time to rip all of your media (me!) or you’re okay with pirating content from the internet. Are you familiar with Plex Media Server? If not, you should be… it’s awesome.
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