Movie / Media server to Plex

pioneer2000 · 8 Mar 2018 at 23:30

Considering getting a NAS for home use, been looking around and think something like a Synology DS918+ / DS418play / HP Microserver might be the best bet?

How does a Microserver compare to these Synology boxes?

Would I actually benefit from moving from hosting all my MKV's etc from my i7 pc to a NAS?

Thanks

pioneer2000 · 8 Mar 2018 at 23:46

I guess the Gen10? Doesn't look to be big differences between them? Wondering mostly how they compare on features / speed as they seem similar money.

OS, unsure, whatever the equivalent is again to a home NAS.

My PC can be, just wondering why most seem to opt for a NAS when you can get the same functionality in that case.

Also, Christ! Since when did hard drives get so expensive?! Swear they've gone up a good 50% at least since a few years back.

pioneer2000 · 9 Mar 2018 at 00:57

Plex mostly

pioneer2000 · 11 Mar 2018 at 21:11

Got excellent AC around the house but the primary usage will be gigabit Ethernet to a Nvidia Shield running Plex (so 99% of content is direct play as the Shield seems to run everything I can throw at it).

If the answer is to use a big server, I might as well leave my PC on as I tend to do now (I7 Xeon, 24GB ram, 980ti).

I imagine because the Shield can play most things, I don't necessarily need a NAS with the grunt to transcode. Just want something extremely easy to setup and manage as don't have the time to tinker about constantly.

Another spanner to throw in the works is that I currently have two 4TB external Hitachi Touro drives and 2x 2TB internal WD drives that I would want to move over to the NAS (and have an 8TB WD external attached via USB 3.0). This is purely because I don't mind cracking open the Hitachi cases but want to keep the 8TB WD intact. From what I understand the Synology NAS can run mixed drives with hybrid RAID... HDD seem crazy expensive lately so don't want to migrate over quite yet.