Advice please on a NAS

I just got the DS415play which supports transcoding and is 4-bay to replace my 2-bay Netgear which was ****ing me off (25mb/s reads was the fastest I ever saw it move data!)

It's fantastic - I've been swopping data around between drives in RAID1 while running 2 Time Machine backups and streaming to a TV and an iPad running Plex no problems at all. Did it just in time too as one of the 3TB drives in the Netgear which I ported over has just started to fail and originally I didn't have them RAIDed in the Netgear.
 
Kinsy said:
I just got the DS415play which supports transcoding and is 4-bay to replace my 2-bay Netgear which was ****ing me off (25mb/s reads was the fastest I ever saw it move data!)

It's fantastic - I've been swopping data around between drives in RAID1 while running 2 Time Machine backups and streaming to a TV and an iPad running Plex no problems at all. Did it just in time too as one of the 3TB drives in the Netgear which I ported over has just started to fail and originally I didn't have them RAIDed in the Netgear.
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I have the 2 bay model of this and its fantastic.
It can also manage all your downloads (Torrents and Newsgroups).

Any of the synology play models will support transcoding.
 
rtho782 said:
Good choice to be honest. You can build a NAS (a mini itx board, a very small 4 drive case) for less than you can buy one of the off the shelf ones. The HP Microserver mentioned earlier is an even cheaper choice, these little Synology/QNAP devices are good for storing files and maybe running a webserver, but for the price I'd much rather have a proper server most of the time.

Edit: feel free to add me as a friend on PLEX, and I'll share my library on my cloud server with you :)
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Thank you very much that is kind of you. What is your plex username?
 
Trying to decide myself weather to go for a 2 or 4 bay synology. The 415 play looks tempting but like you have my own built server to transcode if and when required. Are you still going to get yourself a nas for storage?
 
liamcrane said:
Trying to decide myself weather to go for a 2 or 4 bay synology. The 415 play looks tempting but like you have my own built server to transcode if and when required. Are you still going to get yourself a nas for storage?
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No decided to put 2 5tb WD reds in my machine my processor in our HTPC is the i5 4690 and is powerful enough if transcoding is needed. It has a benchmark of nearly 8000 so could do a few transcodes if needed according to the graph on what you need
 
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