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Belic
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Have the DS215J and the Rpi2 and it works perfectly!
The DS215j works like a charm and is alot faster then the previous DS213j.
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kuldan
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You do not need one of the NAS boxes that has advertised KODI-Support - that only means that the box ITSELF is able to run Kodi on it and output it via HDMI... I do my whole home network on a 5 year old QNAP Box (TS-419P+) with 512MB Ram and a single core ARM CPU and have enough performance for 6 computers, including three kodi boxes, including uncompressed blu-ray images ... so go for a box that fits your size needs (so two, four... disk enclosures) - performance-wise, any 2014 model should be more than adequate for media center usage.
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2015-04-21, 23:42
(This post was last modified: 2015-04-21, 23:46 by shabuboy.)
Correct, it all depends on what you want the NAS to do, such as transcoding/Plex or other similar software.
My suggestion, separate the two, storage vs Kodi client.
Pros: Upgrade independently from each other. With the right NAS, it will be years before you touch it again. Kodi, it might be a year or less before you might want to upgrade.
Cons: more devices to manag
There are NAS devices from $140 such as WD MyCloud to very expensive ones.
if you just need a Kodi client to stream files from a NAS, just about any NAS will do. To play the files then it will depend on the Kodi client vs the NAS.
I spent close to $250 for my NAS + AFTV total. Works great, for my needs of course.
AFTV (non-rooted + Kodi)
WD My Book Live NAS
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For your information, Synology Play edition does not support DTS transcoding. And software they provide is not as nice as Plex or XBMC. They offer Plex running on it but Plex doesn't take advantage of hardware acceleration, so having Play edition gives you no advantage at all.
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2015-04-22, 05:43
(This post was last modified: 2015-04-22, 05:44 by bustamelon.)
Echoing others here: the Play is not needed for your setup. I have an older diskstation (which I love) and for streaming, it's more than adequate. As long as you have reliable drives and a decent ethernet connection, you're good. The client (the pi) will do the heavy lifting.
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I would personally hold off on buying a Synology until Silicondust announces support for them with their HDHomeRun DVR (and which models). Their kickstarter states that they are still talking with Synology, but Qnap and WD are on the supported list.
Even if you have no interest, it would be nice knowing that your NAS is supported.
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Thank you very much guys!
I think some of you got the wrong idea from the play edition. It does not have an HDMI output, it just supports video transcoding I guess.
Still, you helped me a lot and I will definitely not go with the play edition.
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I use the pi with an 207, hard wired and NFS. 1080p (without dts) works perfectly
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I am using a Synology DS1511+ and have two expansion units and I couldn't be happier with the results. Though I will say this wasn't cheap, $1800 for the NAS and expansion units alone and the 14 hard drives I have purchased so far. The last two were WD 6TB Red drives which were $250+ each, so this is definitely not cheap, but it works extremely well.
