I’m thinking of moving my server from my PC to a smaller, more energy-efficient NAS. I’ve been looking at the Synology 920+ which gets good reviews and is often recommendation for using Plex.
All my content is DVD and Blu-Ray rips (I own the physical copy of everything on my server) to .MKV files. Most of the codecs are H.264, VC-1 and MPEG. All videos are able to ‘Direct Play’ to my main TV which has an Apple TV (4). Occasionally, the audio is transcoded but from what I can tell the video is never transcoded. Video is streamed to other devices too but almost never remotely. The Apple TV is my main concern.
I think the 920+ would be suitable in this situation and would cope with multiple simultaneous streams, even if some streams have audio transcoded. if that a fair assessment?
If so, is it advised to buy additional cache SSDs for the 920+?
Do you think it would cope with several audio transcoding sessions at once? Not overly concerned about video as the Apple TV can direct play all my media.
I know there are a few factors but can the 920 support multiple transcoding sessions? Doubt this will be an issue for me and my set up but curious to know what the limits of the NAS are.
That is a half truth as it does not have enough juice to do s/w based HDR tone mapping for even one stream. Currently Synology does not have native h/w based HDR tone mapping support unless you run it in Docker. More details here:
