DiskStation DS918+

wont be enough, the sales are not only plummeting because of the HDD debacle but also because their new systems simply suck, they are still using old CPUs without an iGPU so no hardware transcoding which is a huge downgrade to the previous models. the best Synology model a home user can buy is a use

This ^^^ I moved Plex Media Server from a DS918+ to an i5-10500 Ubuntu PC a couple years ago. Best move ever. No problem transcoding, burning subtitles, etc. It is a bare metal installation, no 20+ containers. Just Plex Media Server and Tautulli via Snap. Plenty of headroom should I want to add anyt

Yeah agree depending could be quite different run times.. But would be nice if they put up a curve on load, I mean I doubt the nas is going to draw 120W if its not really doing anything, etc. So from my napkin math should be able to get at least 20 minutes out of it I would think.. Not exactly sure

Yes - I use a synology NAS for both my plex and homebrige, working well so far. I guess the unifi plugin for homebridge requires a certain amount of hardware to run smoothly (ie maybe don’t try a raspberry pi). So far the synology ds918+ is up to the task though I only have one protect camera so far

What hardware are you self hosting on ? I deployed in a container on my Synology NAS DS918+. It cannot play any stream, no matter what options I choose in the settings. Just a bunch of ffmpeg errors.

depending on what size and number of files you want to share your requirements are different. without that information it's impossible to tell. i have ~1.5million files i share using multiple sync folders with approximately 1.5TByte of files. I had problems with the default 4 Gbytes of RAM in a Syno

Be careful with the performance of the DS918+. I have one, in addition to a DS1521+ and DS1621xs+. The 1621 is about four times as fast as the 918. But still not nearly as good is my setup where I have Immich running on a Minipc and the Synology NAS is just to host the storage. My Minisforum MS-01 i

Not in my experience. Don't really have one because I never had this issue. I have a DS918+, four bay, all HDD, all using Synology's SGR mirroring RAID. I put everything on a hard disk. Run the Docker containers on the same NAS using reverse proxy. I have 16 GB of RAM in my workstation and an SSD dr

Surprised im still in this sub tbh Paid for PlexLifetime back when it was $60, but moved off to JellyFin when I was getting transcoding issues on my Synology DS918 .. I just don’t get any errors with JF

The sweet spot second-hand would be something like the DS918+ or DS920+. Both use Intel x86 CPUs, support Docker and VMs, and still have plenty of performance for modern self-hosting. The DS918+ is older but still very capable, especially with a RAM upgrade. The DS920+ is newer and will likely get l