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Hi all,
I am about to purchase the above NAS and was wondering if it would be any good with transcoding? I would also be using it for VMware storage.
I had a look at the compatibility list and it wasn’t on there, so wanted to check if anyone had any experience?
Cheers
let me start off with I see you have this tagged with “server-qnap” and my NAS is a FreeNas Mini. saying that I have found that when i was running Plex on my Nas it was able to transcode to a point and really only supported a single transcode. I found to support my needs I needed to simply use the NAS as storage and I use a older Mac for my Plex server. this older machine does not support hardware transcoding but is able to support multiple transcodes this was not possible on the Nas
Most consumer NAS appliances have pretty low-end CPUs and are restrictive for trying to cram PMS onto them. Your cell phone likely has more horsepower.
A NAS can be a very powerful Plex Media Server and do transcoding, but that’s if you build your own.
I will disagree with building your own NAS is the only solution.
QNAP TS-453Be is a fine 4 bay unit, capable of hardware transcoding HEVC.
The only limitation these smaller boxes have is with subtitle burning because of how subtitles are handled in general (this includes home BluRay players too).
The TS-453Be is capable of multiple simultaneous transcodes of HEVC to H264.
Well, I did qualify it with “most”. Some clearly do have more horsepower than others, but they are few and far between, and have their own caveats.
I’d call only having 4 bays a deficiency, since most people run some sort of RAID on their NAS and when faced with just 4 bays, will gleefully (and naively) set it up as RAID5 thinking that will help them. When in truth, these days it doesn’t so it’s a waste and a false sense of security.
The false security comes in the mentality that RAID needs no backup.
External backup, on media, cold and in the closet or otherwise offsite is the answer.
Indeed, I’ve often emphasized to people “RAID is not a backup”.
However, what RAID is is for the sake up uptime/availability. If your array cannot actually survive a drive replacement process because a statistically-expected read failure during resilivering trashes your entire dataset/pool, then it’s not even providing that. So still a false sense of security for even the intended and proper purpose, regardless of backup. And you’ve wasted money.
I’ve personally witnessed multiple consumer RAID1 and RAID5 arrays suffer 100% dataloss due to not being able to survive a resilver during a drive replacement. It’s not a hypothetical thing and backed up by many other experts. So in 2019 (and for a few years now), go RAID6/RAIDZ2 (or better) or don’t bother.
Unfortunately “Doing The Right Thing” costs more money than doing it wrong (or doing nothing), and as usual when faced with this information, in a large number of users (majority?) there is a resistance that expresses itself in simply sticking one’s head in the sand and denying the facts. This behavior can be seen in many other things beyond RAID, but I digress…
Folks will often take the perceived path of least resistance or short -term cost.
I have always emphasized: “Do it right, the first time”
Both my RAID systems could be wiped out this very second.
All it will do is annoy me.
Restoration of media from external simply takes time.
Repopulating systems over 10 GbE is very easy these days
ended up building my own in a dell r510 12 bay, running freenas under the hood
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