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ReadyNAS RN10200 Sufficient ?
I have a ReadyNAS Duo v1 which I am looking to replace. I have only ever used this at its most basic, storing all my data under a single file share giving me plenty of space and some redundancy. W...
in environnement part not in the frame. Noise levels: <25dBA
Mine is at 2-3 meters of my bed, clearly can't hear it but you may hear the disks heads when writing like any USB drive would do. In fact the noise is entirely covered by some kind of fan my apartment is equipped to prevent it from exploding if there is a gaz leak. My guess is that you computer will cover the noise anyway if the NAS is at more than 2 meters away. There still is a fan and if you are obsessed by it you will hear it, but most of the time the fan is around 700-800RPM. You can use NAS drive to reduce noise (they are supposed to run cooler (so no fan speed bump) and vibrate less).
I believe human ears dont pick up anything under 18dBA.
For the transcoding, you need an app for that, you have a full linux (debian) under the hood and some already good apps available (I don't use media functions so I can't tell what those apps do but plex seems praised).
Every NAS of the new line has se same software (ARM or intel version but every other bit is the same I think), the difference is the hardware. Transcoding is great if you have unsupported formats, if you store everything as MP4/H2624-AAC I think every player can read it. But it's clear that if you have some old or uncommon formats you may want to be able to play them directly on your ipad/TV/console. Nowadays most tablets/computer have apps to read pretty much anything, so it depends on your TV/console/amplifier/bluray player if you have to transcode or not.
Synology's OS is cool (there is a demo available on the net). To be honest I wanted a Synology but when buying my NAS I had a 30% discount on the Netgear RN104 and since I wanted something basic with 4 slots... I find that the OS6 is unfinished (no drive spin down, no firewall, no mail server...) and there still are problems (some device locking up while copying to them, the fix removed USB3 support). That said Netgear is working on updating the OS, I hope they'll sort things out quickly.
Mine is at 2-3 meters of my bed, clearly can't hear it but you may hear the disks heads when writing like any USB drive would do. In fact the noise is entirely covered by some kind of fan my apartment is equipped to prevent it from exploding if there is a gaz leak. My guess is that you computer will cover the noise anyway if the NAS is at more than 2 meters away. There still is a fan and if you are obsessed by it you will hear it, but most of the time the fan is around 700-800RPM. You can use NAS drive to reduce noise (they are supposed to run cooler (so no fan speed bump) and vibrate less).
I believe human ears dont pick up anything under 18dBA.
For the transcoding, you need an app for that, you have a full linux (debian) under the hood and some already good apps available (I don't use media functions so I can't tell what those apps do but plex seems praised).
Every NAS of the new line has se same software (ARM or intel version but every other bit is the same I think), the difference is the hardware. Transcoding is great if you have unsupported formats, if you store everything as MP4/H2624-AAC I think every player can read it. But it's clear that if you have some old or uncommon formats you may want to be able to play them directly on your ipad/TV/console. Nowadays most tablets/computer have apps to read pretty much anything, so it depends on your TV/console/amplifier/bluray player if you have to transcode or not.
Synology's OS is cool (there is a demo available on the net). To be honest I wanted a Synology but when buying my NAS I had a 30% discount on the Netgear RN104 and since I wanted something basic with 4 slots... I find that the OS6 is unfinished (no drive spin down, no firewall, no mail server...) and there still are problems (some device locking up while copying to them, the fix removed USB3 support). That said Netgear is working on updating the OS, I hope they'll sort things out quickly.
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