this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
9 points (100.0% liked)
Synology
965 readers
1 users here now
Synology
This is a place for all topics regarding Synology hard- and software - especially (but not limited to) their NAS devices.
Just one thing: Let’s please be pleasant to each other and respect that people have different experience levels. Some are pros, some are noobs, yet everybody may have good ideas or interesting questions to ask and comments to make, and all of these shall be heard and appreciated. ❤️
And since we know from TV that all IT nerds 🤓 are h4xx0rs and wear hoodies all the time (if not even ski masks) in front of their computers, I chose an appropriate banner image (image credit).
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Might get shit on here. What’s the most cost effective synology I can use for a plex server that can run maybe 2 plex streams at 1080 or one 4k?
Man, almost anything now. Transcoding isn’t really needed very often since streaming sticks (Roku, AppleTV, Fire, etc) now reliably have hardware video decoders. So, almost all the NAS has to do is shove the file over the network. Almost the only way you’d need transcoding is if you wanted to stream video out of your home network to remote devices.
So, if my guess that you won’t need transcoding is correct, then just buy the cheapest NAS that has a couple drive bays.
(There is such a thing as too slow. I have a 2014-vintage Synology DS214se, which was the low end model even then, and Plex clients take up to a minute to load all movie posters, and it can take a minute for a video stream to start. But if you are buying something made in the past few years this won’t really be an issue.)
The Synology DS220j would probably be my pick for that. Or maybe the 120j if you don’t care about data redundancy.
I’m running a DS414 to an TV 4K playing my MKVs in Infuse Pro. No complaints at all.
Thank you for the reply. I’m running my desktop as a server and if I could just have everything running off the nas it would be nice. I’m currently using my desktop plus a hd attached via usb as the source so I might as well just clean it up.