DiskStation DS1019+

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

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

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