Good evening, I’m choosing where to install PLEX Media Server, if on a PC or on a NAS.
For NAS, I’m interesting in QNAP TS-653D-8G (CPU Intel® Celeron® J4125 4-core/4-thread processor, burst up to 2.7 GHz and 8GB RAM).
Can this NAS supports 20 simultaneus connection whitout any problems?
Thanks
Playing music, maybe.
As you pointed out in your other thread… if transcoding has to be in the game, a NAS won’t be able to keep up with 20 parallel sessions (putting aside your limited internet upload speed).
Leaving out my internet connection, in this article QNAP suggests NAS for PLEX and TS-653D-8G is included.
It really depends on A LOT of variables. How is your media stored? MKV, MP4, what about compression h264 or h265? What audio codecs are you using? Literally I could go on but I think that is a good sample.
You also need to know what everyone will be pulling your content down as, as was pointed out. How much transcoding AND how hard will you be transcoding, 4k to 1080, 1080 to 720? Again a lot more is possible.
20 for that unit is a lot of streams. I can give an example. I have been able to push my TS-453Be-8g at 14 streams and I was at 85-ish % I think it was between 9 and 10 were transcoding 1080 to 720 or 480 the others were direct. I know this because when I first got into NAS and Plex and felt good with it I ran a stress test with some of my friends and that was the result.
The more you can just push direct the more you can stream, but even at 20 I think that would be a very optimum limit.
skwor01, I will refer to your example for my choice. Thank you so much.
Thanks, to give you a better sense allow me to give the detials of how I rip and store my media.
Everything is MP4 and H264, all stored at 1080p original bitrate, with AC3 audio 640k.
I found this gives me the best compatible format with the most devices. 1080p - 720 or 480 is not to troublesome for hardware transcoding and audio is not much an issue at all, often the streams end up being direct which is the best place to be.
Also I rip the subtitles out as SRT and hardcode all my forced subtitles so that it is never an issue.
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