At $200, a Pi Plex setup probably isn't what you need.

Tech experts caution that while Raspberry Pi devices are popular for DIY Plex servers, they struggle with transcoding, limiting performance to a few 1080p streams and making 4K playback impractical.

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The latest generation of the Raspberry Pi is available to all users and programmers. Its performance is 2–3 times better than previous models compared to that of the Raspberry Pi 4. Let’s discover its ...