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Media Server Advice

  • 07-04-2022 11:20PM
    #1
    alxmorgan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,908 ✭✭✭


    Hi,


    Looking to setup a media server at home.

    Have 3 TVs running as well as a number of smart devices so looking to stream to them from NAS storage of some kind

    I'm no expert but looking at different options:

    1. Frtizbox
    2. Raspberry Pi
    3. Dedicated NAS such as synology

    Don't need huge storage. Have some hard drives already (USB versions)

    Thinking of something like a Plex client on smart TVs but if other options are better open to them


    Any and all advice welcome. thanks in advance



Comments

  • #2
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 74,533 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    I've had a Synology DS2xx series running Plex for a few years now - at the time, hardware transcode seemed like an important factor so I bought the Intel powered + model rather than the much cheaper Arm - but I've never used the mobile apps so it really hasn't been an issue. Decide if you are ever going to do that first!

    For reliability I wouldn't use USB storage myself



  • #3
    GerardKeating
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,052 ✭✭✭GerardKeating


    I have a Western Digital "My Cloud Expert Series EX2" which start €143.99 for a diskless unit. €419.99 for an 8TB unit (twin 4TB drives) and am very happy with it. I actually have two of them now. They come with "Twonky Server" built in which would share all your media contect to all your TV's assuming they are DNLA complient. Plex is also there, but I never bothered with it.

    Buying them direct from the Western Digital Site always (for me) works out cheaper than Amazon...



  • #4
    alxmorgan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,908 ✭✭✭alxmorgan


    When you say mobile apps you mean mobile phone ?

    Plex app on TV works ok ?



  • #5
    alxmorgan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,908 ✭✭✭alxmorgan


    So looking at this...thoughts welcome


    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Synology-DS220j-Bay-Desktop-Enclosure/dp/B084CLC39K/ref=sr_1_15?crid=8D56HMGIZBDS&keywords=Synology%2BDS2&qid=1649447918&s=computers&sprefix=synology%2Bds2%2Ccomputers%2C82&sr=1-15&th=1



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