You don't necessarily need a NAS or a mini PC to set up a Plex media server. In fact, any old computer can be a media server, ...

I recently bought a new Synology NAS and am still transitioning my data from my previous two units to it. It's about 30TB used on a 62TB volume. It's running on 1 GB Ethernet for now, but I'll ...

Some friends and I were talking about the best way to serve up media in our homes. I have a hard drive full of movies I’ve ripped from DVDs I own as well as a few hundred CDs that I’ve ripped over the ...

Last week’s cord-cutting column mentioned Plex as a live-TV recording option. Let’s talk about Plex, which is a combination of hardware and software designed to store and serve up your media (videos, ...