Hey All, So I finally settled on the following.... (Goal is to server 2 to 3 people w/ transcoding, run a VM or two, and run Plex, CouchPotato, SickRage, etc).... Fractal Designs R5 Seagate ...

Plex has been around for a while, but if you’re unfamiliar, the service can turn just about any device with enough power and storage into a network-connected media server that you can access ...

Plex always has been the Mac-friendly offshoot of XBMC. I've never considered using an Apple product for my home media center, so I've never really put much thought into it. Things have changed ...

In order to consolidate my stuff, I decided to build a Plex server. Plex is a service that makes setting up a media server stupidly easy.

It's simple to turn your old laptop into a powerful Plex server, and you can use Windows or Linux to get the job done.

Once you install the server application, which runs perfectly fine on a Linux server, you install the Plex application from the Google Play store, and your video collection follows you anywhere you ...

Software -Ubuntu Server with Samba? That's the suggestion I got from a few friends who also have limited linux/plex server experience.