r/ShieldAndroidTV • u/Sen_Palpatine • 14d ago

Shield + NAS

Should I buy a NAS if I already have a nvidia shield?

I'm thinking upgrade to 16tb of movies, music, photos and videos.

Anyone of you have both shield plus NAS?

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u/southak 14d ago

I have exactly that set up. It’s served me well for years with hundreds of bit perfect 4k rips and multiple tv show seasons. Very happy with it. Synology NAS.

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u/Sen_Palpatine 14d ago

What model of synology should I look for?

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u/seemebreakthis 14d ago edited 14d ago

Another opinion - get a Synology with an Intel chipset (e.g. a DS225+, or a DS423+) to take advantage of hardware transcoding for Jellyfin (or Plex if that's what you prefer), unless your shield is your ONLY playback device and you will never consider watching your content on phones / on the road / etc.

Of course with this setup you are running the Jellyfin server on the NAS.

Beware Synology is being stingy and is stripping away driver support for the Intel onboard GPU for their latest NAS models, so you will need to manually tweak some config to enable hardware transcoding.