Upgrading to Ultra 6+ from NV+

tenney wrote:

mdgm wrote: Pro 6 for transcoding 1080p. Pro 6 has faster CPU, business features and 5 year warranty. Ultra 6 Plus has 3 year warranty and lacks business features. Thanks. That makes it a more simple decision based on cost differential really. Since there's no real need for Plex to transcode except to an iOS device, 1080p shouldn't be a biggie (any LAN based client would have access to the same media files). mdgm wrote: I found it quite easy to go from a NV+ v1 to an Ultra 6 last year. It's actually a little easier going NV+ v1 to NV+ v1. With a few simple tricks you can migrate the data fairly easily without needing to use SSH at all (though it's handy to have installed just in case you want to use it). When I did it (late last year), all of the things that made it easier were not available on any of the Sparc implementations. So the only way to do it (the ONLY way) was to use SSH. Every other option was only for x86 ReadyNASes. mdgm wrote: As for using the NAS as a client so it can share via Plex files from other NAS units you'll need SSH for that. hmmm... so NAS "A" can't NFS share from NAS "B" natively without using SSH? Well, maybe I'll be better off letting my Plex server be a separate machine which just NFSes to the two ReadyNASes. That's too bad. Would have been nice to have it all on one box. But... maybe with 6x3TB drives I can do it. Thanks

Doesn't the question of transcoding relate to the native file? If all of your files are stored in HD (1080p) then don't you need the extra processing power of the Pro6 to transcode to a handheld/portable device? Do you need the extra processing power if there are copies on the NAS copied at SD (say 720) to play on iPad (not stream) or other tablet device and you want to transcode to stream to a handheld device?

Thanks.