DS411j powerful enough for my needs?

[Leigh]

I cant get an answer to this over at Synology so thought id ask here:

Having researched NAS's for a while i have finally concluded that i need a synology NAS (the only one that can handle my IP cameras)

I plan to use the NAS for the following and would like to know if the 411j is capable of the job:

2x IP camera recording 24 hours a day (on motion detection)
Serve music (itunes server) to to two Sonos zone players (75% of the time only one at a time)
Stream video to my PS3
Download files using download station

The most that will be running concurrently as i see it is:
2x IP camera recording 24 hours a day (on motion detection)
Music to Sonos
Download files using download station

or

2x IP camera recording 24 hours a day (on motion detection)
Stream video to PS3
Download files using download station

If downloading was an issue then i would schedule this to run overnight if this made the 411j workable

Thanks in advance.

 

[thiggins]

The answer is probably yes. See Can Your NAS Do Two Things At Once?

 

[stevech]

IP cameras: note that Synology and QNAP charge a fee for camera #2 on. I suppose the rationale is that these are commercial surveillance systems with higher support costs.

My Panasonic IP cam is not a significant load on my DS212 unless I ask the DS212 to do the motion detection because the camera isn't that sophisticated.

 

[Leigh]

Thanks both

 

[Leigh]

Gone with the 412+ in the end, mainly for transcoding on the fly and a bit of futureproofing

 

[chichow]

Bump...

So how has it worked out for you?

IP cam
Sonos
on the fly transcoding...