DiskStation DS1019+

At 50TB, my media collection isn't easily replaceable with simply having Sonarr, Radarr, and Lidarr installed. I can't imagine how many hours I've put in building custom collections while also sometimes designing my own custom collection posters. Or how many versions of an old TV Show I've acquired

Yes I moved my Plex and other intensive apps off my Synology DS1019+ to a NUC M150 PC. Way faster. Just had to point libraries to different location.

I’ve been using a Synology DS1019+ (5-bay and ability to expand to another 5) for the past 6 years. I primarily use it for 45GB of Plex media on a SHR (Synology’s RAID with 1-drive fault tolerance). I disliked their photo implementation a few years back and haven’t tried it since. My trouble was tha

I wouldn't use the nvme slots for cache. I'd install two compatible 1TB nvme drives to create a RAID 1 volume as the location to install Unraid packages, Docker containers, and VM's to. I'm running a test Plex server that was on a DXP4800Plus, and it's a really nice setup for Plex server. I have 18

I’m running a Synology DS1019+ NAS, with 5 Seagate Ironwolf 10TB drives. It’s designed for 4K streaming/transcoding. I run Plex, Surveillance Station, store all my movies, TV shows, backup all my music, photos, and PC backups. It’s been running since Feb. 2019, 24/7, without issues. It even emails m

Will double check those settings later but they sound similar to what I'm using. So to circle back. From what I understand, Directplay does not require a whole lot of cpu power. From a quick read up, it sounds like directplay is much more bottlenecked by network rather than the server's raw power. M

What’s your experience with performance? I run 2x Synology DS1019+ and have shared each volume over NFS. I have mounted the two shares on a proxmox VM and have merged them with MergerFS to a single /mnt/media folder, mostly for *arrs and qBittorrent. However convenient, downloading is really slow (s

Its not all about your server. You can have a low-powered system serve 100% quality. They key to that are your clients being able to play the media natively. Transcoding is not only a performance hit - its a loss of quality do to the on-the-fly lossy conversion. So, you want to inventory your media

I think your problem is with the client. You need to get the client to somehow force direct play. I was having this problem on a Roku TV that suddenly stopped allowing direct play after an update and my Synology (DS1019+) could not handle it. I was already switching to an Apple TV so never resolved

Nope… I own a DS1019+ with the DX Extension Bay and then several J models as my onsite backups for the DS1019+ with the Extension. I will not cast off the old equipment, but done buying their equipment to be forced into their high priced drives. I get their desire for the “Appliance” brand but they