You can easily have your storage from your NAS mounted on another computer and do the encoding there but depending on what devices you are playing content on your server may not need to do any/much encoding at all. Less than 3 months later I wanted more capacity and went from a DS218+ to DS1019+ and migrated my plex server over. Well just for fun I tried plex as the synology package on my 218+ and the performance was so good I just kept it that way. I originally got a DS218+ just to host storage for my plex server running on an i7 nuc. The only thing that has maxed out my nas so far is when I fire up cs:go and try to add 10 or 12 bots (on top of everything else including plex).Įdit2: Sorry one more thing to point out. I'm using a ramdisk as temp transcode directory and it's amazing.Įdit: I'm also running the docker synology package with the following containers: Chia (crypto), unifi controller, ombi, pihole, traefik, and as needed cs:go and ubuntu. While the specs say it caps at 8GB it can actually handle 16GB of ram. Aside from Plex I'm running a lot of other crap on the NAS and cpu has never been the bottleneck. I have 2x SSD's in SHR1 for metadata/plex db and 3x exos drives in SHR1 for my library. With plex pass (crucial for hardware transcoding) it easily handles 6+ transcode sessions at 720 or 1080 simultaneously. I have this NAS and run a plex server on it (the synology package).
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Because while the Synology will be able to transcode 1080p content, the loading pauses every time you want to rewind 15 seconds in the movie will piss you off. Or just do what you suggested and use a beast of a computer to transcode for you. Try your best to get subtitles in a format that can play externally (like SRT). If you do want the Synology DS to transcode, I highly recommend focusing on transcoding just audio. I haven't tried transcoding on ethernet yet.
I don't know how much of that would have been mitigated if my client had a wired connection. So while the NAS did transcode 1080p, I did struggle with 5-15 seconds of load times whenever I skipped ahead or rewinded. When I was transcoding, I was living in a different place than I am now, a place where my client (Roku stick+) wasn't connected to ethernet, and was actually quite far from the router. It can transcode 1080p content, but I don't have meaningful results to share with you. Everything is connected via ethernet though. I can pause, rewind, play SRT subtitles, and it's perfectly smooth.
It's been a pain in the ass for over a year now. I ran out of storage space in three months.
I wasn't sure I'd enjoy maintaining a NAS, so I didn't want to drop $700+ on a DS420+, DS920+, etc., so I went with the 220+.
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