Advice on next step in media storage

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SirHumphreyAppleby

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#3105089 17-Jul-2023 15:23

SumnerBoy:

Oh really? I didn't realise that, thanks for correcting me!

You may be right actually. Intel apparently pulled some SKUs a few weeks ago and it was reported that they were EOL the entire NUC range. It looks like from recent reports that they may be pulling the entire range.

Either way, it's not the end of the line for the concept as there are several manufacturers offering small form factor PCs with NUC-level capabilities. Personally, I don't really like the NUC (even though I use them)... I'd prefer to see more in the ITX range.

DamageInc

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#3105484 18-Jul-2023 12:10

SumnerBoy:

DamageInc:

The only benefit i see going with a transcoding NAS is if my NUC craps itself. But right now if that happened, id buy a new NUC.

On a side note, did you hear the other day that Intel have decided to EOL the NUC product line?

lol just my luck

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DamageInc

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#3105490 18-Jul-2023 12:20

SirHumphreyAppleby:

DamageInc:

Possibly looking at the QNAP TR-004

This isn't really a NAS box, it's just USB connected storage. It supports multiple modes, including 'hardware RAID' options. Generally, I would advise avoiding hardware RAID. You'd probably want to use this in JBOD mode and use software RAID.

QNAP is a popular brand and how they implement their RAID may be well documented (I cannot confirm), but ideally you want to know that you can pull drives from one NAS and attach them to a PC to read the data. With the more feature-packed NAS boxes, they are typically just running Linux with software RAID, and even if not trivial, you can pull the drives and read them in a PC, should that ever be necessary.

Is there a performance difference between a NAS via ethernet vs a DAS via USB?

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SirHumphreyAppleby

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#3105497 18-Jul-2023 12:39

DamageInc:

Is there a performance difference between a NAS via ethernet vs a DAS via USB?

USB is going to shift more load onto the CPU, particularly if you are using software RAID as I recommend. That said, in real world usage it probably won't make much difference. 4k Blu-ray rips max out at 128Mbs^-1, which is well below the theoretical throughput of USB 3.0 or gigabit Ethernet, once protocol overheads are factored in. None of the films I have come close to sustaining that sort of throughput. Compared to the overhead of transcoding (assuming you do this on the fly), it's a trivial amount of data processing.

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