I am currently running PLEX, Surveillance, Backups, Channels DVR on my QNAP TS 251+ NAS (8GB RAM). It has been working with my HDHomerun receivers in conjunction with the TV Everywhere capability. I have linked my DirecTV, YouTube TV and Philo TV accounts and leverage the commercial deletion functionality.
Everything has been running like a champ for about 6 months with no issues however, I am taxing my NAS to the max. It is always at 100% and can’t even navigate the menu on the QNAP NAS.
I thought I could offload the Channels DVR to another device. Here are my options.
I have two NVIDIA SHIELD TVs (2017 and 2019 non-pro model). I would either just purchase a 4TB drive or map them to my QNAP NAS to record/play videos.
Or should I purchase a Raspberry PI 4? I read it has a GPU albeit not nearly as powerful as the NVIDIA devices. I did read but not confirm the NVIDIA TV SHIELD does not log in to your TV Everywhere YouTube TV account.
I read online some people wanted to do the same but did not confirm if they actually did move to the other platform and happy with the performance.
Thank you in advance.