Upgrade Suggestions

[JFHughes08088]

I presently have a AS1102T with 2 4t drives used primarily for backups of computers, tablets and phones. Recently, Ive been building a media library to stream across a home network. Each movie is about 5-8 Gb in size, connected to a Synology router via Cat 5E. The router is also connected to a Samsung 85 in TV via Cat 5E.

The problem Im having is that movies (regardless of size) play for a while, then the TV displays a message to "Check Network Connection" and then defaults back to the main file menu of the NAS. Arghhh. It's not a file format issue since the movies play and when they drop out, it not in the same place.

Im thinking to upgrade my NAS to one with a HDMI port so I can connect direct to the TV, thinking it will offer greater connection stability? Perhaps the Lockstor line?

If I do upgrade from Drivestor to Lockstor, are the drives swappable. Meaning can I pop the existing 2 drives from Drivestor to Lockstor without any file loss?

Suggestions please.

[Nazar78]

Don't expect upgrading Asustor NAS with HDMI would solve the issue. In fact the HDMI isn't really what you would expect like a PC, unless a few mods are done like installing custom OS. I was like "huh?" when I first got my NAS, expecting a 10 bit 4K display support but the native display was sluggish, had to scale down to 1080p and yet still not that good. Apps support with display is also limited. I'm now using Ubuntu LXC to utilize the HDMI display at 2K 120hz with hardware acceleration, good enough for web surfing, play H264/5 videos, game streaming and still running on the default ADM OS.

You didn't mention which server/client app you're using. With those 5-8 GB media (625-1000Mbps) I don't think your TV can cope with those bandwidth. I have yet to see a TV with 1GbE ethernet adapter, mostly are just 100Mbps. You should use the TV's Wi-Fi 5 instead, at least the bandwidth is doubled at average 200Mbps. For huge files probably you can use stream transcoding (like using Plex or Jellyfin, install the clients on your TV) to lower the bitrate to fit your TV bandwidth.

If I do upgrade from Drivestor to Lockstor, are the drives swappable. Meaning can I pop the existing 2 drives from Drivestor to Lockstor without any file loss?

https://www.asustor.com/en/online/Colle ... ?topic=343 - According to Asustor yes you can transfer but I'm not sure if it can be done between arm and x86_64 but don't worry your data won't be lost even if it's not supported (there's ways to recover) unless you accidentally initialize the disks.

[JFHughes08088]

late update but the issue has been resolved by simply uninstalling, then reinstalling Plex.