Plex have advised that the single drive MyCloud devices are “not powerful enough” to run plex, thus Plex is only available on the Mirror and upwards devices.
Is anyone able to clarify why the single drive unit is not powerful enough to run Plex?
It’s a ‘piddly’ 600MHz dual core ARM7, IIRC. (With performance I could only dream about in my youth of 1MHz 6502 machines…).
It’s the format transcoding that marks Plex out that is too much for the basic model.
Frontman wrote:
Is anyone able to clarify why the single drive unit is not powerful enough to run Plex?
Because of the processor. The main reason why Plex doesn’t run on all devices is the processor power needed to do transcoding from one format to another. Transcoding on the fly is processor intensive. At some future point it may very well be “officially” supported on the WD My Cloud single drive models but it currently isn’t at this point in time.
The officially supported Plex NAS list can be found at the following link:
https://docs.google.com/a/plexapp.com/spreadsheets/d/1MfYoJkiwSqCXg8cm5-Ac4oOLPRtCkgUxU0jdj3tmMPc/
Plex explains to some extent why certain NAS devices may not be supported at the following link:
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201373823-NAS-Devices-and-Limitations
You may want to visit the Plex WD NAS support forum at the following link for more discussion on running Plex on WD devices:
