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I'm looking for perspective on performance from those more experienced with the VM environment on Synology NAS...
We have a mostly idle DS3018xs (Intel Pentium D1508 w/ 8GB) that I considered pressing into service for high volume transcoding with Handbrake. So I created my personal-first VM per NasCompares' instructions. 4GB allocated to Windows 10. And then I installed Handbrake, along with a few videos to transcode. I was surprised to find that transcoding speed on the NAS was barely 50% faster than a MacBook Air (1.6 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5 w/ 16GB). Much slower than anticipated, given the Pentium CPU.
I could try again with up to 32GB RAM and a larger memory allocation to Windows, etc. But I am suspicious that those changes may offer little or no improvement in transcoding speed. So before going any further, I'm looking for some feedback to help set my expectations for Handbrake performance in VM.
Meanwhile, we're planning to repurpose a Mac Mini (upgraded to 3.2GHz 6‑core 8th‑generation Intel Core i7 w/ 16GB) for the transcoding project. Is that likely a better-performing platform vs the NAS?
Thanks for any comments or suggestions. Ron
We have a mostly idle DS3018xs (Intel Pentium D1508 w/ 8GB) that I considered pressing into service for high volume transcoding with Handbrake. So I created my personal-first VM per NasCompares' instructions. 4GB allocated to Windows 10. And then I installed Handbrake, along with a few videos to transcode. I was surprised to find that transcoding speed on the NAS was barely 50% faster than a MacBook Air (1.6 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5 w/ 16GB). Much slower than anticipated, given the Pentium CPU.
I could try again with up to 32GB RAM and a larger memory allocation to Windows, etc. But I am suspicious that those changes may offer little or no improvement in transcoding speed. So before going any further, I'm looking for some feedback to help set my expectations for Handbrake performance in VM.
Meanwhile, we're planning to repurpose a Mac Mini (upgraded to 3.2GHz 6‑core 8th‑generation Intel Core i7 w/ 16GB) for the transcoding project. Is that likely a better-performing platform vs the NAS?
Thanks for any comments or suggestions. Ron