Use another PC CPU to improve the performance of my synology NAS.

[kayo7]

So, here's my situation:

 

I work with 3D rendering, and I'm about to buy a new PC and a NAS. I'm going to use my old (current) PC as a render farm to improve my work time.

 

And I'm going to use the NAS as my plex library (and transcoding), but it seems that the synology processors are not very good for this.

 

My question is if I can use the CPU of my render farm, to transcode the media files of plex when I'm not using it for rendering.

 

(And I'm thinking of connecting everything via 10gbe, it will work?)

[brandishwar]

So let me see if I have this straight.... You're going to have a NAS on which you'll have your files. And you're buying a second computer. And your current computer will be used to transcode files from your NAS for Plex, with the trancoded versions stored back to your NAS?

 

What makes you think that won't work? Using 10GbE will be a good idea as it'll make sure your network connection isn't going to bottleneck the transcoding. Now if you're wanting to transcode on the fly, you'll need Plex running on the machine that'll do the transcoding. You can't have Plex running on one system and have it use a second system for transcoding. Plex just doesn't support that.

[NoobCase]

5 hours ago, kayo7 said:

So, here's my situation:

 

I work with 3D rendering, and I'm about to buy a new PC and a NAS. I'm going to use my old (current) PC as a render farm to improve my work time.

 

And I'm going to use the NAS as my plex library (and transcoding), but it seems that the synology processors are not very good for this.

 

My question is if I can use the CPU of my render farm, to transcode the media files of plex when I'm not using it for rendering.

 

(And I'm thinking of connecting everything via 10gbe, it will work?)

 

So here's a crazy thought. Ditch the NAS purchase and just install Plex server on the render farm/ of? You could add additional storage if needed.

[Jarsky]

If you really feel the need to do this, install Plex Media Server on the machine you want to do the transcoding, and target the NAS shares for the library,

Theres really no advantage to having 10gbE for just media playback unless you have a high number of concurrent streams, or youre doing large file transfers at the same time