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Agreed, we would probably both claim to be IT geeks yet both chose the NAS solution.
As much as I could by a microserver and get it to do almost everything I want, it's an extra level of hassle and maintenance.
The NAS does everything I need and a lot more I didn't know i needed until I...
Yeah, if you want to run a Plex server and use the Plex client on your devices then most NAS boxes will struggle to transcode due to the relatively low processing power.
If you have all your files already in a supported format across all your devices though, then using XBMC, or just normal...
Synology gets lots of votes on here, do a search, there's been a few threads about them. I've got the 212j+, the two bay version of yours and can highly recommend it.