If you need to transcode, then you’ll probably need more CPU. low power draw, storage capacity, and can be left running 24/7. If you have no need for transcoding, then running on a NAS is probably the best experience. The “best experience” you are asking about depends heavily on your needs. On mobile, so I’ll just explain rather then explicitly answer your questions. The NUC handles multiple transcodes just fine from when I've tested it (I don't transcode very often though - Roku Ultra handles most everything fine), but if I didn't have one lying around I probably would have bought a used Dell Optiplex on eBay or something like that instead.
Incidentally I'm doing this on an old Intel NUC I had lying around, but if you go this route, I would recommend getting a normal ATX tower with plenty of ventilation to do this. Another downside is power consumption (two servers, not one), but my Plex server has a very low power footprint at idle. One downside is having two servers to babysit, but honestly, I rarely log into Ubuntu (where PMS is running) only occasionally to run OS updates. And I'm not "trapped" into a single box for messing with either one. If I want to upgrade the Plex server, I can. If I want to upgrade the storage server, I can. They all just point to the Plex server machine and the network shares from the NAS are there. So my devices are none the wiser that there are really two servers in the background: one for storage, one for PMS. From there, I mounted the media from the NAS to that little server. It's a fairly recent Intel CPU, so it's pretty good, I plopped a SSD in it, put Ubuntu Server on the machine, and then installed PMS (and Tautulli). I use a repurposed PC that acts as a server. The PMS server is in quotes above because it's not really a server like a NAS or a rack, but it is running a server OS. But its primary purpose is my DVD/BR collection, and that's where I rip all my discs to. Backup of PC images, phone backups, other little NAS-y things are all working great. Works wonderfully, all within spec couldn't be happier. I have a cheap entry level NAS box (Synology "J" series) for network storage, and other little NAS-y functionalities. Why not do two servers? Here's how I did it: a) NAS and b) PMS on its own "server."
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