New hardware purchase advice / experience with TS 451 ?

[Anderella 13]

Hey,

 

as I‘m the more I try, the more I‘m getting a fan of emby….. I‘m thinking of upgrading my environment.

 

Right now I‘m using my MacMini (Late 2014) OSX Big Sur, 16 GB RAM as my server, with my QNAP TS-221 connected (SMB Volumes). 

(Unfortunately til now there‘s no way to install the server there)

 

And as I‘m converting my ISO-DVD and BLURAY Images step by step to MKV files, I probably need a server upgrade. (4 Bay instead of 2 Bay)

 

My selection right now, I would like to stay with Qnap:

QNAP TS-451D2-2G Dual Core (with upgraded 16 GB RAM)

 

Frontend/Playback-Device: FIRE-TV (Ethernet wired) or iPad (WIFI)

(PS4 and again Fire-TV in my other flat, access via internet)

 

Can someone verify that this model works great and stable with emby, or do you have other recommendations or suggestions?

 

Concerning disk usage: As I have and will backup everything on separate HDDs, I would prefer JBOD (if one drive fails, the others stay „readable“)

 

Or is RAID the better choice because of read/write speed?

(Raid 0 would be my selection in this case)

 

Thx for feedback and hints!

 

 

[Luke 37100]

Hi, the ts451 is very popular and I'm sure you'll have a good experience with that. I would suggest keeping it simple with jbod.

[Anderella 13]

Thank you.

Followed your hint and bought one TS-451D2.

As it's not listed, which of the server-pkg I should download and install?

https://emby.media/qnap-server.html

[ricostuart 2]

use the intel/amd x64. 

[Anderella 13]

Thank you. Installed at it runs:)

[Luke 37100]

Thanks for the feedback!