ilan memory ng qnap mo sir?
magiging malayo NAS ko sa home theater (which is located sa attic namin).
pero the NAS is connected to our router and may cat6 connection din ang home theater going to the router. kaya ba yun?? or pwde ba iwan yung NAS sa home theater haha? baka delikado esp if wala tao at baka mainit.
or bili na lang ako ng 4 bay hard drive enclosure with tb hard drives. then connect to the router and connected sa 4k media player ko sa home theater? ayos na ba ganon?
thank you
I have 16GB on my QNAP 653A. Max is supposed to be 8GB, but saw that a lot of people had it working with 16, and memory was cheap enough so went for that.
Distance shouldn't be an issue, particularly if you're not using wifi. I have mine set up on a gigabit network as well (make sure you're using a gigabit switch, btw)
My NAS is in the home theater, router and switch are in another room. But you're right, mainit and I had to take it out of the enclosed cabinet and just put in beside my center speaker. Admittedly, maingay minsan (the hard drive sounds)
The hard drive enclosure connected to the router will be cheaper (a NAS isn't cheap), but depends on what you need. For simple playback by multiple clients, baka pwede na, although I can't vouch for it as I've never tried that. I really needed a NAS as this machine is on 24/7 (primarily for Sonarr and automated downloads), and since mine had HDMI, figured I'd use that as the media player in one room as well.
I am using a DNS-320L nas running Twonky server (DLNA) serving a Kodi client on my minix U1 in the living room, an LG Smart TV in the bedroom, another PC on kodi and two tablets on SPMC. You only need PLEX if you need to transcode the video. Within a home network environment DLNA is good enough. It doesn't matter where you place the NAS as long as it is connected to your network. I'm running a gigabit home network and 802.11ac wifi.
Agree with uvax that you don't really need Plex unless you need to transcode. In my case, the client machines are running Kodi and can play my sources natively, and I didn't need to transcode as well. I did opt to use Emby server - just had to install the Emby add-on in the Kodi clients. The main attraction of Emby was to manage my library (that sits in the NAS), and its ability to sync Viewed status across all clients. i.e. I could start watching something in one room and move to another room and pick up exactly where I left off. That's another thing - if you only use a hard drive enclosure connected to the router, you'll still need another machine to run Plex, Emby, or any other backend you might want to use.
