HP Microserver+XPEnology

Timber said:
The HP Gen7 N54L is just below the borderline for what you need for 1080p transcoding. You might get away with a lower bitrate file or certain scenario but in the main it's going to struggle at transcoding 1080p. If you're not transcoding (i.e. m4p to iOS, or using Synology/QNAP apps) then you're not going to be too bothered about this. The QNAP TS-451 is based on the Intel Celeron J1800 @ 2.41Ghz, so it is not going to be able to transcode 1080p video (Plex forums link).

That said I think I get why Deuse has bought a NAS. The lack of maintenance, regular updates, easy to install apps and featured mobile apps (and I guess fixing subtitles) make it a compelling purchase if you don't need the horsepower for something like Plex.

I deliberated with this question for a long time and only recently replaced my old Synology with a HP Gen8 MicroServer running Ubuntu Server simply because I wanted to get away from using a NAS and use Plex heavily. But as mentioned in some scenarios the NAS wins.
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Who the hell transcodes these days?
All my films that was on my N54L was in 1080p. Every device I have(phone\tablet\TV) is 1080p. And all worked great.

If a person is behind the times with their hard ware then yes, but who is these days?

Loving my Qnap :D
 
Yep just done mine all the way to 5.1-5022 update 1, everything was exactly as described.

Edit: Oooh, DSM Mobile finally works :D
 
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Having some issues with plex on mine, go to watch something on tv and it doesnt work, log into xpenology and the service is stopped, works fine when I start it but wondering if anyone has had similar and knows what could be wrong? Everything is latest version
 
Just wondering can you update the BIOS after installing DSM?

Also I currently have 1 x 1.5TB drive and 3 x 3TB drives. Does that mean I'll have to swap the 1.5TB out for a 3TB or greater to start with?


Bradmax57 said:
Having some issues with plex on mine, go to watch something on tv and it doesnt work, log into xpenology and the service is stopped, works fine when I start it but wondering if anyone has had similar and knows what could be wrong? Everything is latest version
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Sometimes happens with me, like just now powered on my N54L after leaving it off last night and sickbeard service wouldn't start, restarted and it still hadn't started automatically but it ran after manually started the program. Seems to happen randomly and for no reason.
 
I understood that as long as the replacement drive to the 1.5TB was bigger than that size, say 2TB then it would be fine. I deliberately built out my DSM with a 250GB HDD first as this allows me to scavenge small drives until I get to the 12 drive limit (unless I change this) so I don't have to spend the $200NZD on 3TB WD Reds.
 
deuse said:
Who the hell transcodes these days?
All my films that was on my N54L was in 1080p. Every device I have(phone\tablet\TV) is 1080p. And all worked great.

If a person is behind the times with their hard ware then yes, but who is these days?

Loving my Qnap :D
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I think if you're careful with formats you shouldn't need to transcode but there are still plenty of scenarios that might require it. For example playing back .mkv files on devices that don't support it.

For me its 1080p AVCHD files from our camcorder. Just saves me having to encode them. Same with .flac files.

That's the great thing about Plex. You can chuck files on the server and just not care about the format, as long as you've got the hardware.
 
Not sure if I completely understand the issue, but I would always recommend using a fixed ip address for a server. Makes life so much easier and you always know where it is.
 
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