

* Seagate IronWolf has a higher drive speed than WD Red. * Software: IronWolf Health Management for Synology NAS * Energy-efficient: Only at capacities from 10TB onwards * Storage capacity: 1TB up to and including 12T * WD Red has a lower drive speed than Seagate IronWolf.

* WD Red is somewhat more economical and cooler than Seagate IronWolf. * Storage capacity: 1TB up to and including 10TB Which one is the choice to go for? I've looked around, and I can't seem to find out what I should use. Is it even worth getting a GPU, or is the better choice to choose a good CPU? If I do not need a GPU to properly do the transcoding, would an AMD Threadripper do the job properly? Is it better to get a midrange CPU with a GPU? I can also see, that the Plex Media Server can only use hardware acceleration when you have an Intel CPU from a certain generation and later. I've enabled hardware acceleration, but that didn't help much. So I'm shutting off the Plex Media Server, until I'm done. The thing is, right now I'm using my setup for everything, workstation, playing, streaming.Īnd since my GF likes to stream HD videos (problaly 2k and 4k in the future) from it now and then. Since my system is not up to date, I'm planning on building a system, with FreeNAS, since they have the 2 features I'm looking for: I've Googled, asked friends, and they've asked their friends, and I can't find the answer, at least not yet. I'm not sure of the exact model of the 1 TB HDD, and I'm not at home, so I can't tell you right now. The issue is, that my PC isn't that much up to date anymore. I have a bunch of questions regarding this Plex Media Server I've been using for a while.
