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Product Support => HiMedia Q10 Pro, Q5 Pro => Topic started by: patriot2000145 on September 04, 2016, 02:06:30 PM
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Hi all
new to HiMedia q10 Pro but familiar with media players (Popcorns in the past)
I have a an S model Sammy with a top end AVR, gigabit wired Ethernet to the Q10. Do I need a HDD installed in the Q10 for the best playback performance or will the NAS solution be fine?
I will watch 4k material of course?
cheers for any help
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??? Q10 Pro has a hard drive bay ... Why not fit a hard drive ???
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I you want an inexpensive, uncomplicated solution an HDD would be your bet.
Like mine...
(http://i.imgur.com/Y5LRFShl.jpg)
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It really depends on the amount of music or video files you have. I chose the Q5 simply because I run a system of NAS drives which enables me to watch movies on any of the 3 TVs I have. As I have over 5,000 movies and 32,000 music tracks a single HD would not do the job.
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It really depends on the amount of music or video files you have. I chose the Q5 simply because I run a system of NAS drives which enables me to watch movies on any of the 3 TVs I have. As I have over 5,000 movies and 32,000 music tracks a single HD would not do the job.
Use a 4-port USB docking for my movies and an Internal HDD for pictures and music, this setup also dupes as a combined NAS for all other media players around the house. Works just fine for me. In fact sold my 2-slot NAS again. The dedicated NAS alternative would mean an 8-slot high end NAS which is very expensive, eats a lot of energy and worse a NAS only allows identical HDD for the whole lot; even in JBOD mode it does not allow Plug & Play. Now I have a true Plug & Play setup (even Internal and USB Docking HDD's are fully interchangeable). Just pop-in the drive you like, no need to power-off Q10 Pro (using eject). RAID is too expensive for me, already spending a lot on HDD's.
For uploading content use FTP (not Samba) which is fast enough.
The only disadvantages are that NAS obviously shows up as 5 individual HDD's and you can't setup individual access rights per user as a real NAS would facilitate.
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Q5/Q10 Pro, Synology-DS1815, 8x4TB Raid 6 is do a job.
Synology DS1815+ 8 Bay Desktop NAS Enclosure (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Synology-DS1815-Bay-Desktop-Enclosure/dp/B00OIP57YW)
WD 4TB 3.5-Inch 6GB/s NAS Desktop SATA Hard Disk Drive - Red (https://www.amazon.co.uk/3-5-Inch-Desktop-SATA-Hard-Drive/dp/B00EHBERSE)
Enough for cover your collection.
Kodi + Wrapper via NFS work well.
Plex server and plex client with android player(Audio HD passthrough, 23.976 autoswitch) to get index of collection, like alternative of Kodi.
Scale up to 18 drives with Synology DX513
Q: Do I need a HDD installed in the Q10 for the best playback performance?
A: No.
It really depends on the amount of music or video files you have. I chose the Q5 simply because I run a system of NAS drives which enables me to watch movies on any of the 3 TVs I have. As I have over 5,000 movies and 32,000 music tracks a single HD would not do the job.
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Q5/Q10 Pro, Synology-DS1815, 8x4TB Raid 6 is do a job.
Synology DS1815+ 8 Bay Desktop NAS Enclosure (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Synology-DS1815-Bay-Desktop-Enclosure/dp/B00OIP57YW)
WD 4TB 3.5-Inch 6GB/s NAS Desktop SATA Hard Disk Drive - Red (https://www.amazon.co.uk/3-5-Inch-Desktop-SATA-Hard-Drive/dp/B00EHBERSE)
Yes, indeed this is the nice alternative I looked at. That is if one can and is wiling to spend the money for it.
Performance wise absolutely no need for an Internal HDD. Using a Q5 is proof of that pudding.
It is nice that one can choose which way to go and practical experiences are shared here. :)
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Hi everyone and thank you for the replies.
I do have a microserver windows server 2012 on. Red in. Raid5. So far all is well, it was when I do the jellyfish 4k 200mbs and the 140mbs that I had a stutter half way through and thought with local playback it may have been fine? I may try it for curiosity purposes on a spate hdd and see.
Thanks again