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NAS: a world apart!
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For the Synology models make sure you get one that supports hardware transcoding if you decide to spend the cash. Without it you won't be able to play 4K to PLEX or whatever without buffering. There's a spreadsheet with models supporting hardware transcoding listed if you search.

Also as althor mentioned if you build your own server you can use TrueNAS or Unraid as the OS. They both support ZFS so you can do similar setups to Synology's SHR-2. The downside though is that neither is as user friendly as Synology. Whereas on Synology to install Plex is just a couple clicks in the UI, for TrueNAS it is a whole process.
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I don't care about direct streming because, as written before, it will be used only as remote file server, nothing more.

Maybe it's because I've found my new love... Happy
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(2021-12-17, 11:03 PM)spoRv Wrote: Now a question arises: is it possible to put the NAS in sleeping mode after X minutes of no activity, and then if someone remotely requests a file, it will "wake up"? (of course modem/router will be always on)
In theory, if your NAS supports WOL you could configure your gateway to send magic packets on client request. But that would take a bit of scripting and manual effort to get it to work.
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It seems the NAS model I put my eyes on has the WOL function.

So, IIRC, it's not like the "sleep mode" of a PC; it puts only the hard drive in "resting" mode until some activity comes from LAN.
Not bad - it will let the drives to last longer, then!
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