![]() This combined with the oversaturation of third-party online streaming services that ask you to pay a subscription (such as Netflix) with little control or right to ownership of the media you watch means that many users just want to enjoy their own unique media collections. The most popular NAS for home media tends to be Synology, with its support of numerous media server applications and its own premium video service app too. Despite this, streaming all of your multimedia from a NAS to all of your TVs, phones, tablets and other devices are growing increasingly popular and a lot of this is thanks to the increasing affordability of NAS from brands like Synology and QNAP and free software from companies like Plex and Emby. ![]() With most users now owning decades of media (either in digital form or ripped from optical media at home), the ability to enjoy these box sets and Movies on the latest devices can be complicated. One of the most popular reasons that users choose to buy a network-attached storage (NAS) device is for use as a media server. It’s a perfect single bay device for someone without huge storage needs, but wants a cheap, reliable and easy to use storage device, that will also handle a lew simple home server duties.Plex Vs Synology Video Station on a NAS in 2021/2022 If you’re familiar with Synology NAS units, the DS118 pulls no surprises with the brilliant and familiar DiskStation Manager. ![]() One of the DS118’s party tricks is the ability to do hardware transcoding of video (4K 60fps, 10-bit H.265 and below), so even if your playback device (e.g: a smartphone) doesn’t support the video file format, you’ll be able to watch the content perfectly when using Synology’s Video Station app. 1GB of DDR4 RAM also means there’s a bit of headroom for running a couple of apps (Synology calls them packages) in the background. ![]() There’s two USB 3.0 ports, for plugging in additional hard drives to ingest new files, or even buck up the contents of the NAS and a single Gigabit Ethernet port.Įven though it has an ARM CPU, performance is more than adequate with the DS118 fully saturating a Gigabit Ethernet connection when copying files to and from a desktop computer. It runs the latest version of Synology’s class- leading DiskStation Manager operating system and is full featured, again, except for the bits that don’t work on ARM (i.e: BTRFS support). Despite it only has a single drive bay, the US118 is like virtually every other Synology NAS out there. ![]()
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