To sum up, this is a cheap drive and that cheapness is present every time you use it. There's certainly something fishy going on with how this NAS makes its presence known on the network. The data transfer rate bounced around between 10mb/sec and 500k/sec. I ended up on GoodSync, which at last could see the drive and I was able to very, very, VERY slowly back up my PC's data drive. I then tried EaseUS Todo, which also couldn't find it. I first tried Windows 10's built in backup, but it was unable to find the NAS. Anything else simply brings up an error message in PLEX that the server is too slow.Ģ - Backup - Western Digital don't provide any backup software, so you're left to source your own. 1080p video only ever plays for more than 30 seconds (the size of the transcoding buffer presumably) if it's in H.264/AAC. The NAS does have transcoding hardware in it, which Western Digital claim can handle 1080/30. It takes an age to start playing anything, and it likes to transcode most things too, even with it set to send raw video whenever possible. When I finally had it set up (after one PLEX database meltdown when it forgot everything) and started to play the media the slowness really became an issue. Copying 1TB of video took literally more than an entire day (24 hours+). Everything takes an age to complete, from copying files across the network to scanning the media folders. Having previously run a PLEX server directly on my PC, this NAS is S-L-O-W. After a few hours of re-trying, eventually I was able to get PLEX up and running. I bought this drive for two purposes - as a PLEX server, and as a backup drive for my Windows 10 PC.ġ - PLEX - Setup was a little rocky as the WD software first complained that "the server is offline", then "can't find PLEX server".
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