Hi,
I’ve been using the Channel DVR for a while now and I’ve never been happy with my setup. Here it is shortly :
-ATV 4 32gb
-HDHomeRun Extend
-Late 2015 iMac 5K as Server
-USB Storage attached to the Mac.
The thing that bothers me here is having a 3500$ machine never sleep to record a few TV shows every now and then.
So, I was looking at the WD EX2 ultra NAS and they are pretty cheap on Amazon! But I read on the forum that they don’t have enough power for transcoding and that comercial detection will take a while. But I need to clarify something here : Since I’m using a HDHR Extend, I don’t really need any power for transcoding my recordings since the transcoding all takes place on the HDHR. right? Am I missing something here?
So it would mean that the EX2 could suit my needs if I don’t really care about commercial detection?
Also, could I expect web playback to work at all? Or would that be too much for the WD EX2?
Please enlighten me!
Thanks.