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Plex transcoding used to be the problem, now it can save you terabytes of storage

The thing we spent years avoiding is now the easiest way to save money.
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Why your Plex transcodes are slow (and how to speed them up)

You've got your Plex server set up and your content loaded into your Plex library, but when you play back certain videos, you get constant buffering, or poor image quality, or both. That's a common ...
Ars Technica

Best Specs for a Plex server (with heavy transcoding)

I'm currently using Plex on my Synology NAS and I quite like it, but the Synology is just not up to the task for anything beyond basic transcoding. So I would like to create a dedicated server to ...
XDA Developers

3 simple ways to speed up your Plex server’s transcoding

Patrick O'Rourke is XDA's News Editor and Entertainment Segment Lead. Previously, he was Pocket-lint's Editor-in-Chief, the Editor-in-Chief of Canadian tech publication MobileSyrup, and earlier in his ...
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The best value GPU for Plex transcoding is way different (and older) than you'd expect

His love of PCs and their components was born out of trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of the family computer. Tinkering with his own build at age 10 turned into building PCs for ...