[Stimmenhotel]

Hey guys, I need a little help about buying a NAS.

I have chosen a Synology NAS already, but now I thought about how to let it work as a media server...

But a few things first...
For what the NAS:
- Movie library (incl. scrapping)
- Sharing the movie library to a kodi client (home network, atm)
- Stream music to mobile devices (incl. transcoding to save bandwidth)
- Storing Data (Important stuff will sync'ed with the clouds)
- VPN
- Cloud
- TVHeadend (sometime in the future)
- Sabnzdb/NZBGet

Choices which device to use:
- 4bay (at least 10TB, a little redundancy -> raid5)
- CPU (for transc. music for more than one device)
- Filesystem (BTRFS reads like a good one for NAS, even Synology disabled the auto restore for now)


I took my choice and wanted to buy a Synology DS916+.

But today I looked into the way I would create the media library...

There is no kodi for synology in the apps. I would have to install it as a docker. Docker support is only given for 1 app (licences for more 50€pY)...
But Plex Media Server is present and is not a docker app (I think).

Now I looked at QNAP, which I ditched before since I don't need the HDMI port.
QNAP don't limit the docker apps. Kodi could be installed as a docker. Even cheaper than the Synology...

But I have read, that the QTS software of QNAP's is not as polished and optimized as Synology's DMS.



What are your thoughts, about the limited docker support? Is this a problem?
I fear, that I can need more than one sometime in the future.


Someone has experience with one of them? Or even with both?


Edit: The main question I am asking is: "Will I regret to buy a Synology, because of the limited docker apps?" (I am not yet willing to subscribe any licence...)
But I don't know what apps will need a locker. Kodi is right now the only one I can name for me.