My current NAS (really old) cannot play my MKVs whenever I try to turn on stuff like subtitles. Since I do not really have a good blu-ray player anymore I also would like to use the NAS as a Plex server to avoid turning on my desktop and run Plex on it whenever I want to watch the movies stored on the NAS.
I need it to store some backups of some databases and of my blu-ray library.
I am not planning to do VMs or anything on this NAS. I am looking to buy a new NAS and I am undecided between the Synology DS218 and the DS218+. I considered building my own and installing FreeNAS but I don’t want to overlook the convenience of pre-made ones (especially hot-swapping and the pretty easy RAID management and disk upgrades).Īnyhow, getting to the point: I noticed that the main difference between the DS218 and the DS218+ are the CPU and RAM (DS218 sports a 64-bit RTD1296 ARM processor with max 2GB DDR4, while the DS218+ comes with a weak J3355 Celeron with max 6GB DDR3).ĭespite being a RISC processor, to me the ARM processor seems actually better than theĬeleron in terms of pure horsepower and I cannot fully understand the price premium of the 218+ as it sports a CISC - but weaker - CPU.
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