plex media server hardware recommendations

Preferably something small / portable: NUC, tiny PC, laptop.You’re a teacher, and you want to show an “instructional” video to your class (Movie days were the best!).You’re taking an international flight, and you want to serve media to friends/family’s devices while on the plane.You’re going on a road trip, and you want to serve media to others (kids?) in the car.You want a mobile RV server where an internet connection is intermittent, and you want to have a library of media available on multiple devices while on the road and parked.

You’re going on vacation, and you want to take a bunch of media with you, but you’re not sure if you’re going to watch it on your laptop, or your phone… or your tablet… or your Chromecast….There’s even an option to delete media that has been watched automatically. As you add and remove media from your downloads, the mobile server will dynamically add and remove content as well.

It’s a pretty slick, relatively hands off setup. In this guide, a combination of the new Plex app and Plex Media Server will be used to download and serve content on the go. Using the new Plex app, you can now download to your PC.

Overviewĭespite the fact that I outright detest Plex’s overall direction with the PC (removing TV mode and killing HTPC support), they’ve added a neat feature. Note to Plex: Please don’t take this away from us. There is nothing in this guide that is against TOS/EULA, but Plex may decide to take this capability away at any time. Disclaimer: This is not an intended use of the Plex App’s “Download” feature.

Plex media server hardware recommendations