NAS HDD for Plex or Jellyfin 4k streams

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Hi All,

While this topic may not be directly relevant to everyone, I would greatly appreciate any insights, opinions, or comments you might have.

I have recently bought my first NAS Asustor AS5402T (2 bay HDD, 3 SSD) trying to get my feet wet inthe NAS world.
Here is/was my current usecase/ requirement:
  • Plex 4k (8 clients stream),
  • Realtime Transcoding support
  • Virtualization support,
  • HDMI port is must
  • Containerization / docker support
  • m.2 nvme slots (possibility in future, I will add)
  • Less noise (difficult)
  • Long term availability of expansions,
  • VPN server (all of them have)
  • Good DSM support/ updates.

Current options for HDD:
  1. Use old/ refurished DELL Enterprise 4TB x2 HDDs. This I could get at 9k for both. This is probably cheapest option but I will end up with 8TB storage only!
  2. Buy New. Following options:
    1. Western Digital Red 4TB NAS Hard Disk Drives :14k

    2. Seagate IronWolf 3.5 Inches SATA 6 Gb/s 5900 RPM 64 MB Cache 4 TB
Please help me choose:
Note:

I can cheapout, this NAS data is not that important. Also, I already have cloud storage for backup of important files.
I might not even need to do full RAID config.
 
Try to get the biggest nas (Seagate or WD) drive you can afford even if you plan to buy one drive at a time.
 
I think Western Digital Red is SMR drives and Seagate IronWolf is CMR drives.

Check reddit or similar forums weather SMR or CMR drive will have impact on your requirements.

When I built my own NAS box, I wanted to use ZFS file system for RAID, and CMR drives were recommended for ZFS, hence brought Seagate Ironwolf.
 
How to host FLAC files in nas and play them from my Ubuntu laptop based streamer.?
I am running Logitech Media Server docker container on NAS, Using Raspberry PI Zero 2w with PiCorePlayer as streamer.

There are many such open source options available, like Logitech Media Server.
 
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