Off the shelf NAS or build my own?

spudbynight said:
You need to be able to transcode for two reasons

1) You want to conserve bandwith
2) If your playback device can't play the media in question

I've got lots of stuff in 4K HDR which won't playback on everything I have and also is far too big a file to want to stream to something like an iPhone while on the train
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Fair enough. This is a fair case for using transcoding. However you will find out that even after transcoding you won't be able to stream to your phone while on a train.
 
dLockers said:
I use two of these. You can get disk drive bay converters for your 2.5" SSD/OS drive and then there is 1 bay for a 2.5" big drive.
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I really need 3.5" bays

HACO said:
Fair enough. This is a fair case for using transcoding. However you will find out that even after transcoding you won't be able to stream to your phone while on a train.
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Yeah, "on the train" is a bad example ;)

I do however spend quite a bit of time away from home in a fixed location where I can stream from my home server.
 
spudbynight said:
You need to be able to transcode for two reasons

1) You want to conserve bandwith
2) If your playback device can't play the media in question

I've got lots of stuff in 4K HDR which won't playback on everything I have and also is far too big a file to want to stream to something like an iPhone while on the train
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Which is easily dealt with if I was in such a situation by having 2 versions of the same file, both a high bitrate and lower bitrate versions. In the end you have to go towards more powerful processors to get 4K to transcoding which probably negates one of the reasons a lot of people buy the Synology/QNAP types devices, in essence keeping the power requirement down.
 
spudbynight said:
I really need 3.5" bays
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Still stand by the HP Elitedesk 800 G2 Tower is still one of the most cost effective options - it will take 2x 3.5" drives, as well as a 2.5" ssd, and has a 5.25" drive bay that you could fit another 3.5" drive in (and a slim optical bay, you could fit another 2.5" drive in)

Even the 800 G2 SFF will take 2x 3.5, 1x2.5 and has a slim optical drive that could be repurposed.

Drop a Quadro P400 in (~£65 and can be had in low profile to fit the SFF), and under Linux it should still be able to cope with multiple streams, including at least one HDR tone mapping transcode:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/oziamc/plex_4k_transcoding_with_hdr_tone_mapping_question/
https://support.plex.tv/articles/hdr-to-sdr-tone-mapping/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_NVENC
 
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