Therefore given these questions (about the bottleneck), is what my NAS doing, already really doing it about as fast as it can go, and that this project proposal won’t really result in a significant improvement in intro detection speed, because of any of the combination of the aforementioned potential bottlenecks? I did try using one of my other mini PCs which has the AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX (8 core/16 thread)/64 GB RAM system to do the intro detection over the network, and it was pegging the GbE NIC at almost 100%, reading the media files over the network (do I “need” 2.5+ GbE?).īut also interestingly enough, i’m not sure if there is a bottleneck somewhere (whether it’s from the 8 HGST HDDs) or it’s because I’m using GbE or if it is because Plex’s intro detection algorithm can’t process multiple video files simultaneously, and therefore can’t fully load up my 8-core/16-thread 5900HX CPU. I am only “tied” to it because per Linus (he’s not changing from Plex for his home theatre room), because for what he needs it to do, it works fine.Īnd for my wife and kids, I’d have to agree with that. I’ve been using Kodi (coreelec specifically), to play mounted media, … and there’s also Jellyfin if you’re looking for a more mounted solution. Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated. What would be the catches/gotchas that I should pay attention to/be aware of if I am going to try and set up something like this? (Some of the mini PCs have a 2.5 GbE NIC, but I don’t have any 2.5 GbE capable switches at the moment.)ĭoes the community here think that this would work or would this be an absolutely terrible idea? I don’t know what would be the implications of trying to, for example, run the media scan over a gigabit ethernet network. My thought right now is that because I LIKE the fact that typically, the NAS units consume less power than an actual server, my thought is that I would just get a mini PC (whether it’s from Minisforum, Beelink, Morefine, ASRock Industrial, Intel NUC, etc.) and use the NAS to be the “dumb” data server, but then use the mini PC to actually do all of the “heavy lifting”/data processing work. I’m currently using on my QNAP NAS systems as the PMS, but unfortunately, because it has an Annapurina Labs quad-core ARM processor in it, scanning the media (or doing anything else with it) is quite slow.
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