Best software for NAS and media streaming?

[Imacflier]

Yes, this question gets asked A LOT!

And I have read many of the posts and am still fairly confused as to how to proceed.

First the hardware.
I picked up an HP EliteDesk 800 G2 over the holidays. It is tiny and very nearly silent, so it is easy to locate for use as an HTPC. It is a bit of overkill for its purpose: I5-6500, 12 GB ram, 256 GB SSD. It is hooked up (via USB3) to an Orinco 5-bay drive enclosure populated with 5 3TB Seagate drives.

The only thing on the Orinco currently is about 6 TB of movies.

The combination works very well....very low total power at 65 wts....dead silent....runs very cool.

I would like to stream to other devices over the house network. So far as I can tell it appears that Plex Media is the software solution of choice for that: Any other suggestions?

With the remaining disk space I would like a NAS. I have no idea of what software I should acquire for that purpose....or is there a single program solution that satisfies both?

Thanks in advance for your advice!

Larry

 

[drtweak]

Plex man. I use to use a custom browser based thing I made but only work with chrome and firefox. Trust me Plex is the way to go.

Also for you it won't be an issue with the i5 but my server is a small dual core 1.8 ghz Celeron so I have all my stuff converted to .MP4 (Had to anyways for the broswer system to work) which doesn't put any stress on the CPU since most OSes can decode mp4 so the server doesn't have to transcode it first and then send it.

But yea Plex. And if you want to use it on the phone got to get the Plex pass. Using broswer, Smart TV's, Consoles the plex app is free. The phone it will only play 1 minute of video but with a single plex pass you have have up to 15 users/added people to family list.