Make a home-made NAS for less than £300

For this post I will walk you through the steps I took to create my own custom NAS unit that is more than a match for any ready-made QNAP, ReadyNAS or Synology.  I did do a brief summary of the build on Reddit where you may find the answers to any questions you have but I thought I’d add some more detail here.

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Stop or Disable Plex from transcoding 4K content using Tautulli scripts

Problem:

My remote Plex users are trying to play a media file and Plex is automatically sending the 4K version of the file.  Transcoding this file is very CPU intensive, we would prefer that the stream was killed and the user was forced to use a 1080p or 720p version.

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