ZMaNFaRLee
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Hello All. New member here. This place has been amazing for research over the past month and I think I have the information I need to move forward but if I could get a "yep that sounds right" seal of approval I would really appreciate it. Basically I want to confirm that based on my needs either of the following would be fine for me:
Option 1 - Buy a Dell T30 when it goes on sale and install FreeNas and some HDD's
Option 2 - Any synology or qnap
I just bought 4 8tb WD external hard drives that are reportedly easy to shuck for their Red Label or White Label (but essentially red drives) when Ebay had their sale. I want to build a local library and not rely on streams as heavily going forward.
I am looking for ease of use as this will be my first NAS but I am good at researching and following directions from when I used to flash roms on phones or put together my computer.
My needs are simple. Need to stream music from NAS to phone for car drives and then need to stream movies (up to 4k eventually) from NAS to shield tv.
As I understand it since the shield and eventually tv should be able to handle most 4k files (as long as I am careful about containers) then I should be fine with either with the t30 costing more to run but allowing for more flexbilty if I want to stream movies over the internet that may require transcoding (I would be ok knowing I cant stream 4k over the internet but only locally).
That's it really. I am trying to keep it simple and I think the t30 is best from a flexibility standpoint but if I want super easy I can go with a synology.
I could do a self build but honestly the t30 just looks like an easy put together option. Does the above seem right?
Thanks in advance. I have searched a ton on this which leads me to believe the above is correct. I am guessing people would say don't do the synology if you are comfortable learing FreeNas (setting up alerts/etc). I do think though if the synology is dead simple then their is a value in just having that and replacing every 5-6 years.
Option 1 - Buy a Dell T30 when it goes on sale and install FreeNas and some HDD's
Option 2 - Any synology or qnap
I just bought 4 8tb WD external hard drives that are reportedly easy to shuck for their Red Label or White Label (but essentially red drives) when Ebay had their sale. I want to build a local library and not rely on streams as heavily going forward.
I am looking for ease of use as this will be my first NAS but I am good at researching and following directions from when I used to flash roms on phones or put together my computer.
My needs are simple. Need to stream music from NAS to phone for car drives and then need to stream movies (up to 4k eventually) from NAS to shield tv.
As I understand it since the shield and eventually tv should be able to handle most 4k files (as long as I am careful about containers) then I should be fine with either with the t30 costing more to run but allowing for more flexbilty if I want to stream movies over the internet that may require transcoding (I would be ok knowing I cant stream 4k over the internet but only locally).
That's it really. I am trying to keep it simple and I think the t30 is best from a flexibility standpoint but if I want super easy I can go with a synology.
I could do a self build but honestly the t30 just looks like an easy put together option. Does the above seem right?
Thanks in advance. I have searched a ton on this which leads me to believe the above is correct. I am guessing people would say don't do the synology if you are comfortable learing FreeNas (setting up alerts/etc). I do think though if the synology is dead simple then their is a value in just having that and replacing every 5-6 years.