
Plex itself lists 4K HDR with a PassMark of 17000, which is a huge number with the processor usually going 300+ bucks.

The NUC would have to be set up with an OS, configured to have certain things while those pre-built NAS systems usually have all of that already included like redundancy, application "stores" and so on.Īs for transcoding, why do you want to transcode 4K?ĤK requires a shitton of performance for each stream to transcode. It depends on what you need and other factors.įor example, a NUC is a small form factor Computer while a pre-built NAS is a more "out of the box" experience. What you probably mean are those pre-built NAS systems from Synology or QNAP. so as long as you share some storage with the network even the NUC can be a NAS.


Either of those can work for you and they can also be the same thing since NAS means network-attached storage.
