An old laptop needn't lie in a drawer gathering dust. It can still serve a useful purpose as a Plex Media Server. But does Plex work better on Windows or Linux, and what should you use for your Plex ...

Part of the fun of getting Plex up and running is inviting friends and family to stream the content you have, from music to ...

When your aging laptop or desktop computer is slowing to a crawl to get through day-to-day tasks, you don’t necessarily have to recycle it or hand it off to someone else. Your old machine can be ...

One way to make use of a spare Mac is to turn it into a server for home entertainment purposes. Here's how to set up Plex Media Server in macOS. Owners of an old Intel-based Mac who've replaced it ...

I recently bought a new Synology NAS and am still transitioning my data from my previous two units to it. It's about 30TB used on a 62TB volume. It's running on 1 GB Ethernet for now, but I'll ...

I've got a Plex media server running, and the grandkids want access to it from their phones. I like to think I run a pretty secure home network (but who the hell knows, I'm not an IT guy). Considering ...