Self hosted media stack / arr

Jellyfin running on a Synology NAS in docker as backend, and Infuse Pro on Apple TV (also on iPad for when I'm away from the TV) as frontend. Infuse Pro has Trakt and iCloud sync built in, and I use both. I don't download new stuff often enough to bother with the arr stuff. Also OpenVPN (on the NAS) to connect when away from home.

The advantage of Jellyfin over just serving the files through SMB, NFS or WebDAV (at some point I tried them all) is mostly in much easier and better metadata management and editing. Particularly if the Apple TV is an older model (like mine) with limited storage and RAM, letting Jellyfin take care of things like metadata, posters, subtitles, etc. works better. Also, if for any reason Infuse stops working (I hope not, it's great, but closed-source software sometimes gets discontinued), I'll have an easy migration path to another client, keeping all the metadata intact.
My current NAS is a Synology 925+ with 16TB (3x8TB in a RAID configuration with a single drive redundancy, one slot left to populate). RAM bumped to 8GB (planned more, but not with current prices). Currently about half of that is free, movies and TV shows take about 2TB, the rest is other data - photos, Time Machine for my Macbook, Synology Drive backup of wife's PC, etc. It also hosts my VPN server (it has a built-in application for OpenVPN) and a few other services in docker (like pihole, homebridge, and infuse + grafana for my diy meteo station). Under the hood it's a low power efficient Linux machine, very flexible if you want to go beyond what is offered by the (good and polished) GUI. I was considering going full diy route (Linux/proxmox, TrueNAS or something similar), but with current prices of PC parts it hardly makes sense, and my old Synology served me uninterrupted for 8 years.
I do keep my shows and movies after watching them, some I like to rewatch, some I revisited with my son as he grew up. I still have lots of physical media (CDs, DVDSs, Blurays) that I plan to rip, but currently have no time. I do watch lots of contents on streaming services - I torrent only those that are not easily available by more legal means (and those that are only available from Disney, f* those guys). For my occasional downloads I just fire up Transmission on my Mac, but there is a torrent client for Synology if you don't want to involve your computer.

gigatoaster said:

I see. For some reason SMB speed is 70 on Infuse Pro speed test, while webDAV is 320. I chose the ladder and I can now play 80+ GB movies.

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Could this be because of Apple's implementation of SMB?

Plex on my setup is Server only with Infuse as native Plex client.
Serviio is a DLNA server and Infuse as DLNA renderer.