SharkDance

Thank you! i9-9900K is 5 years old though Right now I have an i7-7700T and it can't handle real-time transcoding of even 1 stream (depending on input and output types). i9-9900K is 2 years newer, so some chance it'd be OK, but not sure if it could handle more than 1 stream, and that's not much future proofing. Decompression performance is also too slow for my needs on my current chip. Since it's no longer produced it also costs the same as a CPU built this year. It's sounding more and more like I should give up on xpenology and maybe go to OpenMediaVault, Rockstor, EasyNAS, Unraid or similar. New UI to learn which would be a bummer, and I doubt any of them are quite as nice as DSM.

Thank you so so much! Yeah I have 32gb ram in my current NAS and it is not well-utilized. You'd think at some point they'd do more caching of files in RAM I neglected to mention I will also be running sonarr, radarr, sabnzbd, etc. Decompressing large files hits the CPU super hard to the point where I spend more time decompressing than downloading now. That's where the interest in a faster CPU comes from, also proofing against unknown future needs. With such limited ability to use cores, I wonder how it decides whether to use the P or E cores. Bummer the i9 is a no-go. i5-14500t is 6 p cores and 8 e cores. i3-14100t is 4 cores, but the GPU is a 730 instead of a 770 770 would be nice to future proof transcoding to future standards or some AI thing that comes up. Probably I'll have the NAS for 6 or 7 years. Is there something you'd recommend? I guess I could always do OpenMediaVault or something but the interface does not seem remotely as nice.

Hello experts! I've got a many years old xpenology setup going right now in the same case running DSM6. Very happy with it, but it's time for a better CPU and some new drives. This one ideally would be using DSM7. Hopefully hardware transcoding with the integrated gpu would work in emby and plex. 1-3 streams at a time. SSD for cache if it makes sense. Maybe another SSD to host the OS, but not sure if that's possible? PSU I'll figure out later. Hoping the 2.5gbe on the motherboard will work. My network isn't 10gbe, so I don't need it, but definitely not opposed to moving to it. Intel Core i9-14900T ASRock Z790M-ITX WIFI Mini ITX LGA1700 Motherboard G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory Samsung 990 Pro 4 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive Western Digital Gold 22 TB 3.5" 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive x8 Fractal Design Node 804 MicroATX Mid Tower Case LSI Broadcom SAS 9300-8i 8-port 12Gb/s SATA+SAS PCI-Express 3.0