Re: QNAP Announces Transcoding NASes .

[flamaest]

uhh... The QNAP x70 line of NASes are probubly good NASes, but if you want XBMC, customers should just get an R-Pi for 50 bucks and a Synology's DS214se for 160 bucks.

 

[Kris404]

Not sure if your post is sarcastic but Raspberry Pi or DS214SE do not have the kind of horesepower needed to transcode video realtime for mobile clients like iPad running Plex app or Roku with the Plex channel.

Having the NAS do the transcoding makes your setup much simpler without a dedicated PC running 24/7.

 

[Razor512]

never had much luck with real time transcoding, generally they are fairly limited in the formats they will reliably work with, for example if I grab a bunch of anime and the transcoder fails to make the 1080p 10 bit h.264 MKV files work on a low powered phone.

My solution has been to use a batch file on my NAS (low cost PC built to be a server/ NAS/ Other random stuff) And if I want to get through random anime shows, I make a phone folder and then use a batch file to make handbrake, batch convert everything in the folder.

Since I keep other server apps at a higher priority, I can still host a minecraft server in addition to acting as a DVR for the security cameras, and hosting DLNA content and acting as a openVPN server. (using a Phenom II x4 965)

my current bottleneck is the crappy gigabit connection. (router companies are being lazy with coming out with 10 gigabit ethernet for home users) (I don't want to move to teaming as that requires all other systems to also use teaming to take advantage of the performance of teaming (also needs multiple connections to be made).

 

[coxhaus]

my current bottleneck is the crappy gigabit connection. (router companies are being lazy with coming out with 10 gigabit ethernet for home users) (I don't want to move to teaming as that requires all other systems to also use teaming to take advantage of the performance of teaming (also needs multiple connections to be made).

Teaming adapters does not require all devices to Team. Just think about if you had 4 devices pulling data from your PC\NAS they are competing for bandwidth through one NIC. If you add a 4 NIC Teaming to your PC\NAS then the amount of bandwidth the PC\NAS has increased by 4X. If you have a bottle neck with one NIC on a server type device and have hardware to support Teaming go ahead and set it up. You will like it. Just make sure you set it up correctly or you can cause networking issues.

 

[Razor512]

Only issue is that it does not do much when I want to image a SSD to the NAS.

I really just want a nice simple single 10 gigabit connection for each system on the network. We have been stuck with gigabit for a really long time now and it is just really outdated.

 

[Kris404]

Only issue is that it does not do much when I want to image a SSD to the NAS.

I really just want a nice simple single 10 gigabit connection for each system on the network. We have been stuck with gigabit for a really long time now and it is just really outdated.

These NASes do have a PCIe slot for a 10GbE card. QNAP even lists those accessories on it's website for some of them, expensive though.

 

[stevech]

These NASes do have a PCIe slot for a 10GbE card. QNAP even lists those accessories on it's website for some of them, expensive though.

with the overhead of file systems (NTFS, ext4), one is hard pressed to exceed gigE speeds for mixed file types/sizes.

 

[jalyst]

So, this new range, & especially this one...
http://www.qnap.com/en/index.php?lang=en&sn=822&c=351&sc=514&t=2741&n=19628&g=1
Is it likely to be the new benchmark in terms of "best overall NAS"?
I don't just mean decent R/W performance, but also:
*huge feature-set
*decent usability
*great expandability/hack-ability
*top-notch support services
*solid/reliable OOTB
I don't care about having the best price/perf. ratio, so long as it's the best overall in a SOHO+ env.
Any other contenders, or is this the new clear leader? So far.

 

[stevech]

I rank features over performance.

8 bay... rare is the home user needing that, vs. a 2 bay.

 

[jalyst]

So, could you be a bit more explanatory please...
In what ways are Synology's equivalent top(?)-end offerings more featureful?
And therefore (IYO) a slightly better proposition "overall".

And yes, I already know that 8-bay is pushing the upper limits of a "typical" SOHO env.

 

[stevech]

So, could you be a bit more explanatory please...
In what ways are Synology's equivalent top(?)-end offerings more featureful?
And therefore (IYO) a slightly better proposition "overall".

And yes, I already know that 8-bay is pushing the upper limits of a "typical" SOHO env.

Appears to me that QNAP and Synology are very close in features and price/performance.

 

[jalyst]

Well, yes, that much is retardedly obvious...