Impressed? Or horrified? As I'm generally 50/50 on it. I publish as much as I do because the subject is (or at least 'was' when I started in 2018) painfully un-userfriendly and almost intentionally difficult to keep things 'IT Pro' only. Hope my little dent on the internet helps to counter this...
Ha! Im currently in the planning phase of my first ever home media server, I'll primarily run Plex on it, and am literally just researching, which NAS I should get for the job! So this is perfectly timed :D In my region, the QNAP is only 50 bucks more expensive, and given that it has a newer CPU, more RAM expansion, a HDMI Port and and 2.5 gig (and IMO it looks better than the Synology as well), I think I'll be going for it instead. Waiting for Blackfriday to hopefully score some deals on both the NAS and the drives.
Gr8 video, why so little comments and views!! Can I utilise my gpu on my pc to make nas somehow transcode for it? Or it works only when I runn app pn my PC - a movie player, or surveillance app?
I am going to buy one of these, with raid5. Gonna use docker container apps as much as possible. Could you review some top 5s,10s doxker apps must run on these NASes? Thanks!
I bet there is so much flexibilty with docker. E.g. you can run any p2p client (qbittorrent, deluge etc.), there is also official free version of docker image of jellyfish (which app for qnap costs €5).
You should absolutely only use transcoding as a last resort, especially on low power devices like most NAS (including these). If you can move the decoding to a dedicated device (SBC or other) at the playback location, you're going to have a much better experience. Also you'd need no more than a potato level NAS to serve files, so win-win.
sbc doesn't bring up any result other than rack mounted hardware. Also I am not sure what exactly you refer with SBC. Can you tell me a little bit on it? or a model of the dedicated device that you would recommend?
i care more about multiple (2-4) transcodes via remote sharing tbh. I don't think the CPUs in both are really powerful enough for that. It's sad that Nvidia sheild from 2017 is a better option for that.
Give the fact that the QNAP is more than 150 EURs more expensive than the Synology and for home users that just care about plex the Synology is better, however, if you care of anything else besides plex, this Synology is obsolete with those 1GB network Nics, WIFI6 ( not even considering WIFI6E) is faster than that, and this NAS will be the bottleneck for files transfers.
Nice. Always impressed by your tremendous volume of RUclips uploads. 😊
Impressed? Or horrified? As I'm generally 50/50 on it. I publish as much as I do because the subject is (or at least 'was' when I started in 2018) painfully un-userfriendly and almost intentionally difficult to keep things 'IT Pro' only. Hope my little dent on the internet helps to counter this...
Ha!
Im currently in the planning phase of my first ever home media server, I'll primarily run Plex on it, and am literally just researching, which NAS I should get for the job! So this is perfectly timed :D
In my region, the QNAP is only 50 bucks more expensive, and given that it has a newer CPU, more RAM expansion, a HDMI Port and and 2.5 gig (and IMO it looks better than the Synology as well), I think I'll be going for it instead. Waiting for Blackfriday to hopefully score some deals on both the NAS and the drives.
Gr8 video, why so little comments and views!!
Can I utilise my gpu on my pc to make nas somehow transcode for it? Or it works only when I runn app pn my PC - a movie player, or surveillance app?
I am going to buy one of these, with raid5.
Gonna use docker container apps as much as possible.
Could you review some top 5s,10s doxker apps must run on these NASes?
Thanks!
I bet there is so much flexibilty with docker. E.g. you can run any p2p client (qbittorrent, deluge etc.), there is also official free version of docker image of jellyfish (which app for qnap costs €5).
You should absolutely only use transcoding as a last resort, especially on low power devices like most NAS (including these). If you can move the decoding to a dedicated device (SBC or other) at the playback location, you're going to have a much better experience. Also you'd need no more than a potato level NAS to serve files, so win-win.
sbc doesn't bring up any result other than rack mounted hardware. Also I am not sure what exactly you refer with SBC. Can you tell me a little bit on it? or a model of the dedicated device that you would recommend?
Too much frame freeze on both units to even consider these devices for 4K playback.
i care more about multiple (2-4) transcodes via remote sharing tbh.
I don't think the CPUs in both are really powerful enough for that. It's sad that Nvidia sheild from 2017 is a better option for that.
Give the fact that the QNAP is more than 150 EURs more expensive than the Synology and for home users that just care about plex the Synology is better, however, if you care of anything else besides plex, this Synology is obsolete with those 1GB network Nics, WIFI6 ( not even considering WIFI6E) is faster than that, and this NAS will be the bottleneck for files transfers.
Still no docket install. Man is not so difficult, even Plex developers encourage using docker for the server as it works better