Review on Cloud PR2100 Network Attached Storage by Bill Dahl

This NAS does a really good job as a Plex server after all your content has loaded. I had at least 2-3 transcodes at the same time and everything works great. The main problem lies in the configuration and software. Setting up this device is not very easy and the software that assists you with it is really bad. I couldn't get the front USB copy function to work, I pressed the button like the manual suggests and the process just spins around and does nothing. In the end I just gave up and manually moved everything through the app suggestions, which again weren't very consistent. Every time I started the process, the loading screen appeared and the progress bar didn't appear. After waiting hours for input I just killed the process only to find that it was doing something in the background but didn't try to tell you if it was done or still running. Sometimes I left the process before it could complete. There are so many better options now, even if you want Plex to run HW transcoing. If I had the chance to do it again I would choose the Synology ds218+ which I've seen now offers Plex HW transcoding.