Originally Posted by
richard
I've got a Synology NAS on order. I'm looking for tips on how to set it up, how to organize things.
I've got some legal torrents that I want to run from it, and I want to be able to access files from the road without using dropbox. I'm also thinking about backing up my entire drop box onto the NAS.
And I may want to watch some movies on my Roku, that are served out of the NAS.
I'm looking for some real-life stories of how you have set yours up. Thanks in advance!
Sounds like you need two things:
- Home VPN setup (I recommend OpenVPN)
- Plex (for media streaming)
I know folks will recommend opening ports and things like that, but I'd highly discourage that.
I'm not so familiar with Synology (I prefer QNAP), but I'd imagine they probably can run both Plex and OpenVPN on the NAS itself. I prefer to run OpenVPN on my router (pfSense) to keep the load off of my NAS.
Hopefully your unit has a powerful enough CPU for transcoding.
If not, streaming video will get complicated.