Comment on How to Get Hardware Transcoding BACK on Your Synology NAS

• rainwall@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’d recommend against it. It works “fine” but everything is a thin, but walled garden. Every app is some “Qsomebullshit."They really, really want you in their ecosystem.

  Id say the systems are underspec’ed as well. The model I bought years pitched itself as container ready, but the chipset is so weak it can’t run anything worth a damn.

  source

  • Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Synology isn’t any different.

    I’d argue a NAS is for storage mostly.

    source

    • rainwall@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The vm/container side is less important than the “cant run a RAID parity check regularly because it makes the NAS useless” part.

      I’d argue that a nas should be able to run containers at this point. NAS Hardware does not need to be utterly gutless just because it can be. A versatile NAS is actually a great first choice for a homelab setup before you start to expand.

      source