

Unfortunately Jellyfin still has issues, I was trying the latest version earlier, a movie I was watching started skipping on jellyfin, worked fine on Plex. I also looked at moving over watching stuff with friends to jellyfin, we tried the syncplay feature, it kept stuttering and stopping (auto match was off, as default), and we just gave up after a minute or two and just went back to Plex.
I want to like jellyfin, and the latest releases have improved a lot of the performance issues I used to have, but man is it hard to love moving to it. Sure foss and there’s lots of cool plugins, but everything else has just been a worse experience for me.





I’d recommend looking at building your own with a cheap Ryzen 5600 or something. You can find Nas cases online with racks and everything, and the benefit is you don’t be using some basic CPU. Then you can use some off the shelf NAS OS and you’re done… With the base, but then you’ll have to buy drives just like you would with the Synology.
I’m saying all this as someone on a Synology NAS. My device is barely supported, and the firmware is lacking features for some docker and home assistant stuff, wouldn’t be an issue if i was running a custom setup.