Store media on PMS, NAS or DAS?

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I’m sure storage doesn’t matter much, but thought I would ask. I was running PMS on my Synology 920+, but just kept having constant issues the past few weeks after trying everything possible. I got fed up and found an old Intel NUC (12th gen i5 w/ 32GB memory and a 2TB NVME) and put PMS on it. Works great.

So the question is the media. Most of it is on my 920+ and an external HDD (USB 3.0 - usually plugged into the 920+). The 920+ has an NVME storage pool also.

Where is the best place for the media?

1. On the PMS computer (which has about 1.2TB free space)?
2. Would connecting a DAS to the Intel NUC help?
3. Or is it still fine to just leave it on the 920+ (it and the Apple TV that I’m running to watch said media - are wired to the router) traditional drives?
4. The old external drive can also hold all the media, but it’s likely slower than the DAS that I have.
5. All that said, would the USB connection matter much? Like USB 3.0 (the old external) vs. USB-C (the newer DAS).

Thanks. This is more a discussion than anything. Right now I’m watching media from the NVME storage pool on the 920+ since that is where it was when I decided to go PMS on the NUC.

[JKalchik]

Personally… I’d leave the media files on the Synology and mount the volumes as necessary on your PMS host. Use the Synology for what it does best, networked storage. This will also allow you to use the Synology for other storage requirements. I don’t see the attraction to just add drives to the PMS host.

[WingDog]

hi there!
you can use UNC paths as PMS library mount point, just like “\\nas\share\Movies” instead of “c:\Movies”