Hello, I'm having some trouble choosing the right hardware and software for a new media nas build. I've been doing research on the subject over the last few months but due to a busy schedule, I have not been able to complete it. Initially I was considering going with a Odroid XU4 or a Asrock Q1900-ITX but over the holidays I picked up a cooler master elite 110 and evga 400w psu so decided on an itx build. Currently I'm torn between a few possible itx solutions and was hoping for some input and advice from the community; I've narrowed my choices down to 3 possible solutions in a similar price range, the Asrock Q1900-ITX, Asrock N3700-ITX and Athlon 5350 with a complementing Asrock ITX board. Q1900-ITX is the cheapest of the 3 but also much older hardware, the N3700-ITX is the newest but mixed reviews and Athlon 5350 seems to be the most powerful out of the 3 but mixed performance reviews and driver compatibility issues.
The purpose of the nas will be for backups, owncloud, media sharing over the net and just a centrel location to store all the important files; I have family spread out across the country so it should be powerful enough to do at least 2 1080p transcoding at once. I don't really have a lot of 1080p media so this is more of a "nice to have" feature for the future as I expand the NAS.
Other than the hardware, I would also like advice on choosing between plex and emby for media sharing, all client side PCs will be running kodi with the plex or emby addon but was wondering what the best solution for serving the media was between the two or is it possible to use both plex and emby on omv?
I know a lot of what I ask for seems vague but that is kind of where I am as far as this project goes, the more I do research the more uncertain I become with hardware and software choices, I'm also open to any new recommendations based on the use case of the NAS.
I appreciate any and all input/advice/help, Thank You