In any case, the point is, I 100% agree with what you’re saying, but you should think about your specific usage pattern before jumping into a NAS only solution… any cheap NAS is going to have an underpowered CPU and not be capable of any significant real-time transcoding. If I try to play a 1080p file that’s too high (for instance high profile 4.2) for my 3rd gen aTV to handle, it’ll peg the NAS’s CPU and stutter and basically not play. Most of my media is in an MKV container with H264 (high profile 4.1)/AC3 inside, so my NAS can handle the demuxing, but even transcoding an audio stream (for example, DTS to AC3) can cause my NAS to hit 75% CPU usage. I bought it because it supposedly had hardware transcoding ability, but one the Synology software supports it (read: not plex). This is based on my experience with a Synology DS214play. If you have media in a format your client (aTV, SmartTV, Computer, etc.) can natively handle, you’ll be golden otherwise you may be disappointed by this option. The problem with this is that the CPU is underpowered for transcoding (if necessary).
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