I see stuff like Synology and QNAP on Amazon, but I'm not sure what I should actually be looking for. I was thinking about swapping into a larger case that has a lot of HDD bays, but I already like the case I have now, so I'm instead considering adding in some sort of external NAS enclosure and just having that be the point of future upgrades. I've been using Plex very casually for a few years just running it on my backup PC that gets all my last gen parts when I upgrade my main rig. Hey everyone, I am looking for a little advice on how to upgrade my storage system for Plex media. What CPU is going to be stable now or in the very near future? Should I even care about VP9 or AV1? Some subtitle burning ability would be nice, which is what pushes me towards to faster 12th gen CPUs. But then I read there has been a ton of compatibility issues there. This server is likely going to be used for the next 7 years minimum (mostly for Plex but inevitably for other light home server tasks), so initially I thought to future proof and get a 12th generation i3 to support VP9 10bit and AV1. I have a small library of 4K HDR video that I would love to expand and be able to transcode using HW transcoding and tone mapping, not many users (1-3) on the server. I am going to be using either Ubuntu or Docker, at least I think. I see conflicting reports as to 11th gen stability, and that 12th isn't close to there.

So after a bunch of reading around on this and the official Plex forum, I would love some clarity: what Intel CPU (gens 10-12) do I get that is stable on Plex running on Linux.

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