I tried to run Plex Media Server on the NAS for a while, but eventually found it too sluggish for transcoding, so I decided to move PMS over to the Mac Mini and just use the NAS as a storage device. My media center setup consists of a Synology NAS and a Mac Mini.

The photos I see this issue on are anywhere from 2MB to 8MB jpeg files.Īm I correct in thinking that upgrading to DS415+, with a significant increase in processing power, would fix this issue? Should I expect that switching from one photo to another would take less than one second with this configuration? I don't know what processing is done on the Synology for viewing photos, but I assume it is being converted to the right size to display on my TV, and that this processing is done on the fly, when each photo is selected. This all looks to me as if the low performance of the CPU in the 213j is my issue. After the photo is displayed, CPU drops back down, until I tell the Tivo to go forward to the next photo. When I try to view photos stored on the DS213j, each photo takes several seconds to load, and my DS CPU usage goes to 100% during this time. Both are connected to gigabit ethernet, on the same switch. I am currently using a DS213j, running the Plex app installed from Synology, and viewing on a TV connected to a Tivo Roamio.

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