DiskStation DS1019+

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’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

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

Do what works best for you - but always try to keep in mind what you might need to do to scale. I run Plex on a Synology DS1019+. Its been perfect for my group of 3 users. All our playback clients are flavors of Android: Nvidia Shield Google Chromecast with Google TV Samsung Galaxy phones When it co

I run Plex server on a Synology DS1019+ NAS, with five Seagate Ironwolf 10TB drives that I bought in 2018, running over a gigabit network. Runs flawlessly. I use the Plex client on my Samsung 65” TV, on Roku Ultra 4K in the bedroom on a monitor, (also from 2018) from a web browser on my desktop PC,

I’ve been running the Plex server on a Synology 5-bay DS1019+, upgraded from a 2-bay unit. No transcoding, no blips, no hiccups, no issues since 2018. That’s my only experience, so I recommend it.

It depends on your load. It depends on your clients and the needs for transcoding. Without that information, we cant properly advise you - except in vague terms and concepts. From least powerful to most powerful, it will be: Shield, Synology, Minipc (depending on what you mean by minipc). I personal

They aren’t meant for transcoding. If you need to transcode stuff, then you need the right equipment for that. Even an old DS1517+ could direct play 4K no problem. Some older Synology systems have CPUs that can hardware transcode a few streams with no issues. I know someone with a DS1019+ that has t

I dunno. Old Synology DS1019+ and using my S25 Ultra I just tested (because I don't stream mobile often) and one of my folders has over 1000 movies and it loaded in under 2 seconds, probably closer to 1 second. I get your complaints but the Android app works fine for me. YMMV