Robert - Plex Server

OS

Pros	Cons
Relatively easy to use/maintain	Cost (base $49 to $250 for lifetime updates)
Flexible storage options (Array/Pool options that are separate)	Finicky OS
Can have Media Server app setup within a few clicks	Not personally stable
Incredible community app support (uses Docker and Docker Hub for templates)	Slow storage if using array (uses a proprietary RAID system that does not favor performance)
Native community plugin support	Has issues sometimes with updates
Incredible community documentation (SpaceInvader One and Ibracorp)	Network config can be frustrating/unstable
Requires USB Flash drive for installation and license management	Slow development cycles (bugs don't get fixed often or at all)
Can virtualize VMs	Official documentation lacking
Can utilize self network shares	Backups not easy to setup
	Network shares buggy/unstable
	Permissions with shares are difficult to navigate
	Relatively easy to lose data when rearranging drives in array
	Requires at least one drive setup in the array even if using only pools (can setup a usb drive to be used here)
	Troubleshooting difficult with base setup since logs are deleted upon reboot

Pros	Cons
Depending on what you want, can range from very easy to setup, to extremely complicated	App support has recently changed to Docker and may/may not be 100% stable
Cost (free)	App setup on the more complicated end
The fastest OS in these options	Eats RAM (uses all available RAM as a cache for storage)
Allows for mirroring OS storage to ensure if a drive fails you can replace it before needing to recover from backup	Can be complicated to matain especially if something goes wrong (not everything has GUI support)
Uses one of the fastest storage filesystems available	Storage filesystem is not flexible in terms of expansion
Focused on being a storage solution first and has an incredible amount of options for that including network shares	ONLY has the ability to use ZFS as a filesystem
Most stable file system
Troubleshooting easy with most logs persisting after reboot
Can virtualize VMs
Backups easy to setup
Incredible community documentation
Incredible official documentation