Originally Posted by
richard
The plot thickens, doesn't it? I'd love to just have the NAS do the streaming of course. I wonder if the faster newer NAS can do this without the computer?
Definitely. I've been running a Plex Media Server on my Synology NAS for the last year without any trouble, even when transcoding 1080p video.
The lower-end models, though, won't have the necessary horsepower. I'm using the
Synology DS1813+ which has a dual-core 2.13GHz Atom x86 CPU. Most of the basic, residential-focused models use a less expensive ARM CPU that isn't well-suited for transcoding video.