Hello,
I recently bought a DS916+ and I’m actually pretty satisfied with it, if not I realized that 4 hard drives is not going to cut it for me (neither adding an external box for additional drives), and since I’m still in the return window, I was thinking of swapping it for a DS1817+.
I’m worried that the performance with the DS1817+ and Plex won’t be as good as on the DS916+, based on the tech specs sheet found at the Synology website suggests that the DS1817+ does not come with hardware transcoding capabilities.
Any suggestion?
Tough call. For pure CPU transcoding my guess is that they pretty much equal (The Atom has a slighly higher passmark but is an older chip). But as you correctly noticed, the Atom lacks support for Quicksync and will not support any hardware transcoding. I would opt for the extension… or if you really want serious transcoding go for the DS2015xs and something like an i5 powered NUC to run PMS on.
-edit: I was under the impression that the DS2015xs was cheaper than the DS1817+, it is not
Right now the 916+ really does not have an advantage since the hardware transcoding in plex is not in there but it will come over time and it will be far superior then.
If you do go with the 1817 as mickeldaelmans said, plan on getting a second device like the nuc to do your transcoding eventually.
I personally opted for the 916+ and bought bigger drives to go with it. I figure I have 3 or 4 yrs before I fill the 15TB up and by then who knows what the NAS/Cloud space will look like.
I really need more slots now. I will eventually get a NUC to handle the transcoding. Thank you for all the answers
Yep it will come down to $$$.
As suggested (and what I did) once the NAS’s can’t handle what you want them to do, go buy a fast NUC and keep the NAS as storage!
How about using a Nvidia Shield as the PMS?
I just bought a 1817+ also this week and deciding between a NUC or a Sheild Pro as the latter would have more use in my house.
Also is there any benefit to going up to 16 GB ram on a NAS along with adding a SSD Cache?
Thanks
@Prospect.JP said:
How about using a Nvidia Shield as the PMS?
I just bought a 1817+ also this week and deciding between a NUC or a Sheild Pro as the latter would have more use in my house.
FYI
I have 1817+ for storage AND a NUC (skull i7) as a server AND 2 Shields (pro '15 & '17).
If you r streaming locally I suggest the Shield pro.
If you have remote user/s the NUC might be the go.
But this also depends on your media formatting!!
@“Prospect.JP” said:
How about using a Nvidia Shield as the PMS?
I’m bringing up this topic again because users may benefit to know that if you have a
NVIDIA Shield 16GB, it’s very likely that you’ll run out of internal space pretty soon, as
Plex devs, despite several invitations to allow to run PMS on external adopted storage,
they are dragging their feet on this implementation,
leaving the only usable option to run a PMS to getting a 500GB (although you may eventually run out of space with that too)
@cinghialino said:
@“Prospect.JP” said:
How about using a Nvidia Shield as the PMS?
I’m bringing up this topic again because users may benefit to know that if you have a
NVIDIA Shield 16GB, it’s very likely that you’ll run out of internal space pretty soon, as
Plex devs, despite several invitations to allow to run PMS on external adopted storage,
they are dragging their feet on this implementation,
leaving the only usable option to run a PMS to getting a 500GB (although you may eventually run out of space with that too)
@cinghialino
With things like this, there’s always that annoying problem of available manhours.
Before jumping back at me, be advised:
- They’ve not ignored you
- There is work being done
- I won’t say anything else because I like my body parts attached right where they are
I came across this thread because I have a Synology DS1512+ that’s coming up on six years old. It’s served me well; I use Plex on a Gigabyte BRIX Core i7 machine and use the Synology to store my videos (MKV format). The problem is that at least 2-6 times per movie, the Plex app on the Roku Ultra (2017 model) will stop playback and hang for a bit while it tries to recover the stream. It usually restarts, but sometimes it just hangs and I need to start over. I’m playing via Direct Play, so there’s typically no transcoding. Gigabit Ethernet everywhere; everything is hard-wired.
I am considering getting a DS1817+ or DS918+ and trying to run Plex directly on it again - I’m just so frustrated that I can’t figure out why Plex keeps pausing. I may be throwing money at a problem that can be solved in other ways…any suggestions how to troubleshoot problems like this?
Your Synology is good for gigabit throughput to the LAN. Gigabit is good for 100 MB/sec. Unless you are attempting to play a total of 800 Mbits/sec of video, you won’t max out the Synology. It’s hard drives are good for a good 300-400 MB/sec.
This having been said,
a. Is the network gigabit for everything?
b. What type (codec & bitrate) versus what model i7? -2xxx ? -3xxx ?
