2023-11-05, 12:49 AM
Obviously get more disk bays if you can afford it. You can always add more disks later. If you can afford an 8 disk then go for it. Synology has a hybrid raid called HSR which uses BTRFS. This makes it better than Raid 5 and probably your best bet if you get a Synology NAS. Also make sure to always have a spare somewhere in case one fails. So budget for 1 spare. Also note that I am having a lot of trouble with this setup right now. The NAS is fine but there is something going on with Jellyfin specifically. It could be caused by using HSR... but I dont want to wipe it and try something else till I exhaust my options.
Im working on one right now for my brother and Jellyfin seems to have a serious scanning problem. Scans takes hours even when there are no changes or new files. This does not happen on my normal PC and it seems to only happen when scanning shows for me. Movies seems to scan fast. But to make matters worse, during the scan, the Jellyfin UI is unusable so you wont be able to do anything during scans. I have been looking for an explanation for a couple of days but havent found anything. BTW, I am running Jellyfin in a Docker. There seems to be no issues with CPU or Mem usage. Nothing seems wrong hardware wise. Its just choking.
I have a feeling that there is something wonky going on with the db and the fact that everything is running on the NAS. Some sort of unintended locking perhaps? I almost feel like if Jellyfin were installed on an external drive rather than on the NAS itself, these problems might disappear. I havent tried that yet because I just dont have an external drive right now but that might be what I try next.
Im working on one right now for my brother and Jellyfin seems to have a serious scanning problem. Scans takes hours even when there are no changes or new files. This does not happen on my normal PC and it seems to only happen when scanning shows for me. Movies seems to scan fast. But to make matters worse, during the scan, the Jellyfin UI is unusable so you wont be able to do anything during scans. I have been looking for an explanation for a couple of days but havent found anything. BTW, I am running Jellyfin in a Docker. There seems to be no issues with CPU or Mem usage. Nothing seems wrong hardware wise. Its just choking.
I have a feeling that there is something wonky going on with the db and the fact that everything is running on the NAS. Some sort of unintended locking perhaps? I almost feel like if Jellyfin were installed on an external drive rather than on the NAS itself, these problems might disappear. I havent tried that yet because I just dont have an external drive right now but that might be what I try next.