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I have no issue with your choice of client, in fact I have multiple Fire TVs. In order to avoid transcoding, you will want to "Optimize" any movies that you play frequently. Hopefully you had a fun weekend with your setting up.

You can optimize individual files through the app itself. You’ll choose what format to optimize it to. The client will tell the server what format it needs, and if it isn’t there, the server starts transcoding. I’m not sure what your client is, so I’m not sure what type of optimization to tell...

In that case I can see your upload speed hampering you for out of local network streaming. In the house though you should be perfect. Plex supports hardware acceleration at the server level, but last I checked you need the PlexPass(paid subscription but you can go lifetime) to use that. I...

Looks like Synology has rsync built in: https://www.synology.com/en-global/knowledgebase/DSM/help/DSM/AdminCenter/file_rsync

That's a fair point. If OP wants to store on-prem -> on-prem, can use a multitude of tools such as rsync. Off-prem backup is best practice for businesses, which is what led me to bring up cloud storage providers.

I see you are correct, this must have been updated recently. Still, with the OP being in a corporate environment, 5 users($50/month for unlimited storage) is not something that is impractical. Personally that's the cheapest I've found for something unconstrained. There are plenty of cloud...

Sure, happy to help. In order to give the best advice to you, I will need some more information about your use case. Are you planning on streaming outside of your house/home network? If so, then your upload pipe from your ISP could be your limiting factor. If not, then you're constrained by...

IMO, a free press is immensely important to the public. As such, I will support whatever decision you make to keep your principals intact. Waiting a few days for a fair and accurate review is a price that I will happily pay. These products are quite expensive, and I trust your reviews over...

If this can run my old C+C Red Alert, there's my weekend planned out.

I have seen overheating on a Gen 1 firestick, but that was only when I was loading Kodi on it over and over again for some experimentation. If it gets that hot under normal use, I would suggest exchanging it at BB if it is not a terrible inconvenience.

You can work with them to just have one user on your plan for $10/month, and from my reading of the OP it seems to be a corporate environment. The transfer limit that you mention is correct, however it is something that I would code/design around just for the purpose of the cost savings.

I have a FreeNAS box that I built and do love it for media storage, so I am one with your intentions. I will recommend going higher on the memory side than 8 GB. They recommend ECC memory as well, however I'm not totally sure that is necessary. In terms of your question, it depends on your...

++ to the previous recommendation for DBAN.

I've had a home-built NAS box work for me for multiple years. I use FreeNAS as the OS and love it. As others have said, the speed is not what you would get from something off of the shelf; but that is dependent on your use case. A home media server, you'll be great. Something more I/O...

Most folks that I know use either Backblaze or Google Drive for their backend storage. If you use the Corporate Google Drive, you are looking at $10/month for unlimited storage.