Convenience will cost you with Plex, but the alternatives require more work.

Having a personal media server that's online 24/7 is an underrated luxury. It gives you complete control over your media, ...

A close up shot of a Raspberry Pi 5 circuit board under green-tinted lighting - y0ye/Shutterstock You'd be hard pressed to find a tiny rectangle more versatile than the humble Raspberry Pi ...

I've been using Plex for over a decade, and what pulled me in from the start was how easy it made it to host and stream my personal media library and my friends' libraries from anywhere. I've always ...

Convert your MKV video files to formats compatible with Chromecast devices and Smart TVs, using intelligent codec detection and hardware-accelerated encoding. Patch releases (format X.Y.Z-N) are ...

Self-hosting your data and services with Network Attached Storage (NAS) is a great way to free yourself from the spiraling costs and tangled web of subscription fees. Whether you’re simply looking to ...

On its own, the term “network-attached storage” sounds rather boring. You could easily imagine a useful-but-dull beige box that’s intended to live its days out in a corporate network’s server room.

The LincStation S1 is the latest in LincPlus’s budget NAS series, designed to accommodate up to four full-size HDDs, with two NVMe SSD slots, 8GB of upgradable DDR5 RAM, and an Intel N97 CPU. It’s ...

Have you ever found yourself wishing for a way to organize and enjoy all of your favorite streaming content and personal media files in one convenient platform? While cloud storage services like ...