New Here

[Matthew Verfurth]

I have a few questions, I'm thinking of buying this but I need to know a couple things. 

1: Plex- if i set up plex on here can i still access all my movies on plex remotely anywhere? Or am I confined to my network only? For Example I give my family access to my plex for them to watch from their homes. Can they still do so?

2: Remote File add and delete - Can I access my files from anywhere and add files from anywhere remotely or do am I confined to my network only! If i'm confined to my network is there a app were i can get around this to make it accessible remotely?

3: External Hard Drives - I have external hard drives with files on them. Can i access these and set permissions for family in my network. I know You have the folder feature with permissions but what about hard drives with files already on them? And if i mount them will it wipe the drives and make me lose my files?

I'm new to this and coming from Terra-Master were they ripped me off. I bought just under 2 years ago a F2-210 from them. Brand new and now it is no longer able to be updated on the OS, apps are starting to not work and the outside access of my NAS is supper slow and terrible. Contacted them and they refuse to help. They pretty much no longer support it. Apparently this is a common Practice of them. Thought of going to Synology but I am hearing terrible things about them too. So I saw this on Linus Tech and being a long time supporter i am considering giving you a try. I am planning to wipe an old computer and install this on it. which was another surprise that a old PC has way better hardware then a Terra-Master F2-210. So Sad. 

[Mobius]

3 hours ago, Matthew Verfurth said:

1: Plex- if i set up plex on here can i still access all my movies on plex remotely anywhere? Or am I confined to my network only? For Example I give my family access to my plex for them to watch from their homes. Can they still do so?

Yes plex can be setup for remote viewing, i believe this does require paying for plex pass or plex viewer pass.
alternatively there are other more involved but free options for setting up free remote viewing as well.

3 hours ago, Matthew Verfurth said:

2: Remote File add and delete - Can I access my files from anywhere and add files from anywhere remotely or do am I confined to my network only! If i'm confined to my network is there a app were i can get around this to make it accessible remotely?

by default you will be confined to your local network only.
you will have to use one of the more involved solutions mentioned above.
there are cloudflare tunnels, tailscale and other options for getting this to work for you.

3 hours ago, Matthew Verfurth said:

3: External Hard Drives - I have external hard drives with files on them. Can i access these and set permissions for family in my network. I know You have the folder feature with permissions but what about hard drives with files already on them? And if i mount them will it wipe the drives and make me lose my files?

We do not recommend using external drives however you can setup external drives to work that way.
Most likely you will need to wipe the drives as HexOS.