Hey guys, does anybody uses NAS as their media server with jellyfin, sonarr, radarr, prowlerr and jellyseerr?
Im interested if standalone NAS can handle all of those running flawlessly, while having to transcode from time to time (have full hd tv as well as 4k tvs).
Also what specs should I be looking into for all of that. I guess 1GB RAM should be enough, but for cpu I have no idea.
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I have a modest 2-bay Synology NAS connected to a Lenovo office PC from eBay that runs jellyfin. It works great. I don’t use the other services you mentioned.
A standalone NAS can do what you want. But it depends on your needs and how much you want to spend. How many concurrent clients? How many transcodes at once then? Transcoding 4K (this is very expensive)? All on NAS or NAS + PC?
My understanding is you can transcode using ram or ssd. And the size should be at larger than the size of the file. So 25GB file transcoded, you should have 25GB of ssd or ram available. This is per stream. So now you see how ram is expensive to transcode with, especially with multiple streams.
If transcoding a couple 1080 streams then a cheap office PC off eBay with Intel quicksync that is at least Skylake should work e.g. i5-6500T (this is what I have). You should be able to run those other services just fine. If direct streaming 4K there is not even overheard because no transcoding is happening so that should be fine too.
I use a Synology DVA 1622 NAS to host all of the things you did. The only difference is I upgraded the RAM to 16 GB (to handle my other services)
My wife and I can watch high quality series at the same time with no issues. Only limiting factor is our WiFi connectivity in the house is shit.