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If you're not streaming remotely your Plex can just send the full file through to the local client on the network.
As a consequence... you're good to use any NAS as playback is merely "read file".
However, do you have a super large collection? i.e. thousands of songs or films? Because the thing that will challenge a NAS is that it will run a database server to hold the collection data... and that will perform best with a half-decent CPU and a decent chunk of RAM... NASs are not famous for CPU and RAM... so they can be limiting factors on the UI performance of Plex.
But... if you can tolerate a slow UI and you're only streaming locally... you can honestly just consider any NAS that appears to support a Plex server (which you can check on various forums for different NAS vendors or models).
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Talk to me about NAS. I'm after a small device for basic file storage and running Plex server. I don't have a 4k TV and probably won't do any time soon, I watch things through a Roku which has a Plex client installed. Do I need transcoding capability? Will the Plex client/server sort that stuff out? Can I just convert any videos to a different format with handbrake to avoid it?
Budget is as little as possible.
Terramaster: any good? Reviews seem mixed.
I have one 4k WD red drive already so would probably get another. I'll probably not get this for another couple of months, but it would be good to set up some price alerts.