Comment on How to Get Hardware Transcoding BACK on Your Synology NAS
rainwall@piefed.social 3 weeks agoI’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.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Synology isn’t any different.
I’d argue a NAS is for storage mostly.
rainwall@piefed.social 3 weeks 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.