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Hop over to !selfhosted@lemmy.world and I'm sure there's reading material in the sidebar.
If you want most of the work done for you, I'd just buy a Synology unit.
I've used one of those Synology devices for something at work and really liked the interface and all that, everything worked well and without issues and with minimal admin required (which is my main issue, i don't really wanna admin stuff in my free time), but will that work when what you want is to set up a NAS media server thing full of downloaded stuff despite being a commercial thing that may or may not phone home at some point in our sad enshittocene? I do believe it works for this but haven't heard much in this community related to this, it's usually people advocating to set up a normal machine as a NAS
Yes you can use a NAS like you describe. Some Synology models can run Plex directly on the hardware but it's not ideal as it isn't super powerful if you need to transcode.
I think my doubt was less "Can they do it?" (as i believe they can, should have in mind the transcoding limitation as i didn't knew) and more "SHOULD you do it?" given that it's gonna be filled with movies/series/whatever, and it's still a megacorp product
I wouldn't really worry about it as they just manufacture storage devices and have no reason to scare off their customer base by snooping and snitching. Furthermore, they have no real way of knowing whether you're entitled to have those files or not.
that's actually one of my fave recent things they give up with their security reports and points out I installed Entware (aka Optware for alt devices) even thou it's not been used. They're nifty things