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Is It Worthwhile to Serve Video off a Server separate from my NAS?

I have a decent 2 bay synology, but want to put all my docker images/ VMs running on a more powerful machine connected to the same LAN. Does it ever make sense to do the for media serving or will involving an extra device add too much complexity vs just serving from the NAS itself. I was hoping to have calibre/home assistant/tube type services, etc. all running off a mini PC with a Ryzen 7 and 64gb ram vs the NAS.

My Linux knowledge is intermediate; my networking knowledge is begintermediate, and I can generally follow documentation okay even if it’s a bit above my skill level.

curbstickle ,

If you can map a network drive (very east fstab edit BTW), then yes, its a great way to go.

That’s what I do, I have two 5-bay NASs, both use all 4 uplinks (LAG) to my switch, and my media server is an LXC on an 8th gen intel, with GPU passthrough.

If you reboot your nas, you may need to reconnect from the server. If you reboot your server, you dont have to do anything since its connecting when it starts up. If you end up needing more space, you just mount that new NAS alongside it.

To me its the better approach.

just_another_person ,

Dep ending on your NAS ports, you may have a better direct connection over USB vs Ethernet, but otherwise no issues.

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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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DNS Domain Name Service/System
LXC Linux Containers
NAS Network-Attached Storage
NFS Network File System, a Unix-based file-sharing protocol known for performance and efficiency
SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL

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sugar_in_your_tea ,

I personally have them be the same device, but I have a DIY NAS, so my specs are already way overkill for regular NAS duty (it’s my old desktop PC).

Assuming your home network is fast, you should be fine to split them up. I personally designed my setup to make it easy to move things around should I decide to. I use Docker containers for everything, Caddy for TLS, and HAProxy set up at the edge to route based on domain, so moving a service to another device is just:

  1. copy relevant docker compose and Caddy config to new machine
  2. set up network mounts for anything the containers need
  3. point HAProxy (and my router DNS) to the new address
  4. test

I don’t have to remember where any of the config files are since they all live next to the compose file. I also don’t need to forget which directories need to be mounted because it’s already listed in the compose file.

So as long as you make it easy for yourself to move things around, it really doesn’t matter where your actual data lives.

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