Best solution for recording

Channels DVR Server
#1

Greetings all. Have an HDHomerun Extend on order and am trying to figure out my best combination for Channels DVR. I have the following options to run Channels DVR:

  1. Intel NUC Skull Canyon - record on USB hard drive
  2. Intel NUC Skull Canyon - record on Synology drive via network mount
  3. Synology DS1511+ (INTEL Atom D525 w/1G RAM) - not sure if this is powerful enough

Option 3 would be ideal. I just don’t know if the nearly three year old Synology is capable especially if I move up to 4 tuners.

Not sure about option 1 or 2. When setup as option 2, does the DVR work by getting the stream from the HDHomerun and then resending it to the RAID drive? If so, that would appear to double network traffic. It seems as if option 1 would be my best alternate solution if option 3 doesn’t work.

Ultimately, I plan to build a FreeNAS around a Xeon, but that’s several months off. If there is an upcoming ATV5 with 4K support, I’m hoping that the ATV5 + the FreeNAS would become my ultimate media interface to everything.

#2

Welcome!

That Synology should be plenty powerful for recording and playback. It should also be able to run comskip, but will not be able to transcode for web playback.

I discourage recording to network mounts, but there are a few people here who are doing so successfully. Really any of your three options should work just fine.

#3

Exactly, this is why recording to a network mount is not ideal.

#4

Ok. Great. Thanks. This will be a good starting point.