Channels DVR on Synology 220+ -- offload to SSD?

[cali41]

Hi everyone,

i currently have my Channels installed directly on my Synology NAS with 5400rpm RAID 1 drives. Was curious about moving the Channels installed to an SSD (in this case for Synology 220+, it would be a USB 3.0 port to SSD USB drive and the recording/media would stay on the RAID 1 spindle drives. Would I see any Channels performance improvement with navigation, etc for the actual Channels server to be on the SSD and pulling the media from the NAS drives?

I'm not experience any true performance, maybe some minor UI latency but read about this in a PLEX forum as something people do to improve server performance and wondered if this would even be possible?

[marcuscthomas]

In my experience, it seems any issues with the 220+ is in transcoding multiple streams. For most applications (watching streams within the LAN with an APP) the client does not require transcoding. Other than transcoding, I have never seen too much of a load on the server. I doubt that moving it to an SSD would be noticeable. But, I don't know much about how it uses memory, so I can't say for sure. A better way to improve performance may be to increase the RAM on your Synology box and reduce the "Commercial Detection tread count" to 1. Also, uncheck "Start live detection when watching in-progress recording".

[spud]

What problems are you having? I have 218+ with two 6 TB drives and 6 gigs of RAM. I can stream to multiple apple 4k TVs simultaneously using channels and infuse. Playing two 4k videos can cause some hesitation.

[cali41]

Thanks for the replies. I upgraded the RAM int he 220+ - truly having no problems. Just read about it on PLEX and it helps with something on Plex but maybe does not apply to Channels. More less as curious if its possible and if anyone has done the installed on separate USB SSD drive and kept the media/db on the NAS.