jayecin

Thank you @IG-88 That is very helpful information. Unfortunately its a little late to switch up the CPU, so I will be sticking with the 10700. I also dont want to lose that much performance for plex and using a gpu was intended as well. It sounds like Ill have to stick with running xpenology as a virtual esxi host.

Thanks thats very helpful.

I am building a new home server and have been considering running Xpenology bare metal. I previous tried running it as a VM and had mixed results that ultimately made me not want to deal with effort of running it as a VM. With this new build im considering running it bare metal, but I want to be sure I am not going to lose any features/performance of my new setup doing so. One of my primary reasons for building a new server is for Plex and video stream encoding, x265 is not easy to do without native hardware support. I am using an i7 10700 and my main concern is that I will lose features/cores by using a synology image that isnt built to utilize that many cores. Will i be able to take full advantage of the new CPU and cores running xpenology bare metal?