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There are NAS devices from a bunch of manufacturers where you can just buy them, plug them in, run through the setup wizard, and click install on the Plex app i
by mastax 3y ago
There are NAS devices from a bunch of manufacturers where you can just buy them, plug them in, run through the setup wizard, and click install on the Plex app in their built in App Store. Not much more difficult than getting printer drivers installed.
That’s certainly more than many people are able (or willing) to put up with, and it requires a several hundred dollar investment. But NAS ease of use for common tasks is pretty good theee days.
- loloquwowndueo 3y ago> Not much more difficult than getting printer drivers installed. Dude, really bad example, printers are hell to set up.
- ndriscoll 3y agoThese days pretty much every printer should support IPP. You just plug it in and it shows up to devices on your network.
- michaelmrose 3y agoPlugged it into Ethernet logged into web based config set password. Installed distro package for HP printers instantly usable on void linux and Windows. I think 99% of problems are wifi related or trying to share the USB connected printer over the network.
- Johnny555 3y agoThe problem is that if you don't understand the basic concepts around how NAS works, you can still get yourself into trouble even with a setup wizard. Hang out in any NAS forum and you'll come across regular posts from people looking for help because they chose a form of striping ("because that option gave the most disk space, and no, I didn't see the popup warning about data loss") and then asks for help recovering data after a hard drive failure: "I bought a replacement drive, how do I get my old data copied to it?"