Originally Posted by
Scifience
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.
Yowza; nice bit of kit, but that's a good size chunk of cash too. Pretty easy to build your own 8-drive server cheaper than that if you're comfortable building up from motherboard/case yourself (although it's going to end up being good bit less compact.)