Setting up the Ultimate Plex Media Server on the Synology DS1019+

Are you looking for a great way to store movies and watch them on your phone, tablet or TV? Synology and Plex have the perfect solution for you! In this video I show you how to setup a Plex Media Server using the Synology DS1019+.

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The DS1019+ and Iron Wolf NAS drives were provided by Synology.

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[TechWithBrett]

This video has been 10 years in the making and there is not better time to get this setup at your own home. Let me know what device you would watch your Plex movies on.

[WilliamMurphy-wp]

Just wanted to say thank you for having an intro that isn't over 10 seconds

[MelissaTimea]

I got the plex lifetime pass. Best decision ever.

[OMAOILRIAN]

This is the video that I've been looking for. I had been struggling to get my movies onto my Synology Nas. Now I'm finally able to put my movies and tv shows on it! Thanks for posting this.

[KevboKev]

I used the Plex Media server in my synology for a couple weeks, then realized the CPU in the NAS was at 99%. Because I was using a PC anyway, I decided to revert back to having Plex on my spare PC and just store the files on my NAS. Much betteer transcoding now!!!!

[ComputerGeek]

Just as a note for anyone with film series - you can edit the "sort title" by clicking the pencil so that they appear in chronological order. For example, the Harry Potter films can have their sort titles changed to "Harry Potter 1", "Harry Potter 2", etc., so that they will still show the full film title in your library but will be sorted in series order rather than alphabetically.

[brickman]

My dad did this too and he loves it, his work just built a 40 terabyte synology custom for his Plex pc and he is allready building a pc dedicated to plex that’ll be done this week, he’s been downloading movies for years and I think we just hit 4K movies and 2k tv shows with about 6k in epidoses

[JoeTaxpayer]

Yes! This is great! My only comment to new viewers? Go to settings (here in Youtube) and choose the highest quality your monitor can handle. The images will be easier to follow. (Maybe this states the obvious, but this was so helpful, I watched it again in high-res)

[NenadKralj]

FINALLY SOMEONE | Have a will and time show me / slowly & easily (step-by-step) how to do this [that actually works] THANK YOU !!

[civil]

Converted movies yourself? Wow seems like a lot of work... *Sees [rarbg]* oh that makes more sense. :D

[TampaTec]

Your video editing skills are great, I'm still struggling with the basics. 👍

[jankarlsson]

"Once those are transferend" is a key quote here. I'm currently transferring files from one harddrive to my brand new Synology 918+. The usb-ports on the Synology are painfully slow. My 500 gig folder is estimated to take 2 days to transfer. And I have and additional 4.5 TB on that drive that I want to transfer over before I can go ahead and set up my plex. If the transfer is finished by Halloween I'd be happy....

[CeysLP]

Hey instead of creating an own library for Haloween and kids movies you can create your own genre for it.

[ScottLewis]

Worth noting that a more powerful machine may be needed, depending on your video format and transcode needs. I used to run Plex on my Drobo 5N, but it just wasn't powerful enough.
I ended up buying a late 2011 Mac Mini with a 4 core i7 to run Plex and set up time schedules so the Mac sleeps between 2am and 8am.
The Guideline
s from Plex:
Very roughly speaking, for a single full-transcode of a video, the following PassMark score requirements are a good guideline for the following average source file:

4K HDR (50Mbps, 10-bit HEVC) file: 17000 PassMark score (being transcoded to 10Mbps 1080p)
4K SDR (40Mbps, 8-bit HEVC) file: 12000 PassMark score (being transcoded to 10Mbps 1080p)
1080p (10Mbps, H.264) file: 2000 PassMark score
720p (4Mbps, H.264) file: 1500 PassMark score


Hope this helps.

[trevormallery]

Many thanks for this! bit late to the game i know but just bought a NAS and htis vid is very helpful in how to set up plex (barring any changes, intending to only use it for plex and films)

[DrewD]

No need for the SRT files as Plex has a feature where it will go and find them for you, you pick the one that works best. Any manually added SRT files should end or be renamed with the two letter language code which they are in, i.e. EN.SRT for an English language subtitle, otherwise it will show up as "Unknown external" in the drop down for the target movie.

[johnday]

I have two DS1821+ units, and I find that the Plex app for Synology is not sufficiently stable to be useable when it is running on my Synology, as it locks up and crashes all the time. When I moved the Plex app to my Windows 10 workstation, but left the media files on my NAS, it works fine. The Plex app running on Windows 10 is stable, and doesn't really put much of a load on my workstation. It can support 4 sessions running on iPads, iPhones, etc. with no problem.

[Dave-bise]

I recently bought a Synology DS718+ network attached storage unit. My pc and the NAS unit are connected to a gigabit router(i have verified that, both ports are at gigabit speeds) using a CAT6 cable. I'm running two brand new Seagate Iron Wolf 6tb hard drives in RAID0 with the the default 2gb RAM. I have mapped a shared folder on the unit to a drive letter on my windows 10 pc. I have enabled smb file service and set max smb protocol to Smb3 and min smb protocol to smb2. I have disabled transport mode encryption. I have enabled opportunistic locking. I have enabled Smb direct (turn windows features on/off) and disabled smb 1.0 on my windows PC. I still get a max transfer rate of 2 MByte/sec. I haven't been able to able to configure WebDav in router configuration because my router isn't listed in the manual configuration page under external access in DSM. Is WebDav necessary? My link to the router is 1000Mbits/s ethernet which i have verified under network interface in DSM. I was able to get nearly 120MBytes/s by directly dragging and dropping files to and from the file station DSM webpage(it was using http protocol only) before i mapped the network drive on windows. After i mapped the Nas shared folder to a drive on windows, neither using windows explorer nor dragging and dropping files to and from the web page works at the initial speeds. Now i see that CIFS and HTTP protocols are being used under connected users in resource monitor. Before mapping the shared folder in windows, only http was being utilised which yielded nearly a gigabit/s. I still get a max of 2 MByte/s now after mapping the drive in windows and after the CIFS along with HTTP protocol is shown as connection type in connected users in DSM resource monitor. I'm seeing similar speeds(max 2MByte/s) on DS File app on Android.

[linkinParknando]

Hey I am setting up my NAS server and I have a DS918+. I manually installed Plex by downloading the package from the Plex website. When I initially opened it and created the plex folder, it worked fine then a few hours later, when I tried to open up Plex on synology, it says "the site can't be reached." What am I doing wrong here? When I go to package center, it says error by the Plex package

[MrRobravens]

3 times you said there’s no need for a computer to run 24/7 but the synology NAS is a computer that is dedicated to hosting files to other computers