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

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

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.

Thx for chiming in. I thought might not be the best idea to write cams to the NVMes. I read something like just keeping snapshots and a few days events on there and record the rest to the Synology or something? No my HA and Frigate is down for this new setup. I was running and older version of Friga

Are you running it from an HDD or NVME? I never found it usable on HDD. Much much better on NVME. I used to host it on HDD on a DS918. Unusable. I did hear people had much better experiences with it on NVME, even on Synology, but in my case it was easier to move it to my plex server. It is very smoo

I avoid Synology Drive. I had an idea, where I’d separate my media from my backups, so I purchased a DS224+, populated it with 2x6TB Synology HAT-3300 drives (priced similarly to WD Red Plus at the time), and setup the NAS with Synology Drive, Synology Photos and HyperBackup. After setting up snapsh

As ppl have said already, it depends on if your playback device supports the codecs used in the media for direct playback (no transcoding), or if you'll have enough bandwidth in the network to even do direct playback, or if you'll transcode it in case some codecs are unsupported. the Synology Beesta

If you have the hardware for it, consider using docker and having a media stack set up for it. It's not super complicated and maintenance is quite simple for updating the containers. DSM network shares can be mounted inside containers with proper permissions with NFS. For the downloads (and media st