Considering purchase of DS923+ -Plex/torrents usage

[Damit1]

Hi

New to this bussines.
I plan to migrate my physical blade server, sitting an EU data center for few years now, to migrate it to DS923+.

I started planning this few years ago with a RPI, so I already purchased 12Tb*2 WD USB External HDD.
I plan to run this with Plex, and Torrents as a beginning.

Further on, I plan to make it another backup archive, music, docs etc.
Maybe even running on it Sonarr& Radarr later on?

First question- Does the choise of Ds923+ will be suffecifient? No Transcoding needed.
WIll it work?
Second question- Do you have any kind of Torrents client running there? I need something simple to maintain, I don't do dockers.
Is there any simple way to run torrents there?
Today on my Linux blaze I got RuTorrent, works great, no issue for years.

Third question- USB HDDs, already have 'em. Can it work good enough with them?
Will it make the job?
Should I bring SATA instead?

Any more inputs I should consider?
Maybe DS923+ is not the best solution, and you have other Synology model to offer?

The DS923+ is picked for combination of HW that will do great, and dimensions that fit some place I got left with.

THanks

 

[PunchCardBoss]

First question- Does the choise of Ds923+ will be suffecifient? No Transcoding needed.
WIll it work?

YES. But you should be aware of the transcoding limitations:

• https://www.androidpolice.com/synology-diskstation-ds923-plus-vs-ds920-plus/

Third question- USB HDDs, already have 'em. Can it work good enough with them?
Will it make the job?
Should I bring SATA instead?

Synology internal drives are only SATA and M.2 (supplemental). Check your compatibility list here: https://www.synology.com/en-us/compatibility

The DS923+ is picked for combination of HW that will do great, and dimensions that fit some place I got left with.

four drive unit is overkill for your use case. I know of others running Plex on DS220+ units just fine.

Is there any simple way to run torrents there?

Check this out: https://goonglooo.github.io/posts/torrenting-on-synology-nas/

 

[sfx2000]

YES. But you should be aware of the transcoding limitations:

OP doesn't need transcoding as mentioned...

The 923+/723+ otherwise are quite capable.

Would be nice if Syno had a native download manager, but they don't...

 

[PunchCardBoss]

Would be nice if Syno had a native download manager, but they don't...

Syno DSM is web based.
Syno "Download Manager" (https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/packages/DownloadStation) is a web-based package included with and accessible from within DSM.
That makes "Download Manager" native in my book.

However, in the most strict definition of "native" (https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/difference-between-native-apps-and-web-apps/), one could also say that DSM which is web-based is not native either.

OP wanted to avoid dockers. "Download Manager" fulfills OP's ask.

 

[_zero]

Do you have any kind of Torrents client running there? I need something simple to maintain, I don't do dockers.

I encourage you to rethink this. Docker containers are the simplest, most up-to-date method for torrenting and managing downloads, as well as running Plex. Apart from that, there is only Download Station, a quite out of date Transmission fork, and a handful of packages maintained independently from SynoCommunity members.

In addition, docker containers are largely insensitive to DSM updates and don't suffer from “dependency hell”. A good resource for these is Dr Frankenstein.