So the 5.25 external enclosure hasn't shown up yet but i fiddle some more withe the QNAP and I swapped out plex for it's native DLNA. It is a celeron instead of an atom and 8GB ram but I didn't get on the fly transcoding working. I did get watch folder transcoding working so I can just bulk transfer the existing media from the synology into the watch folders and it will handle it. And when i have the other machine backing up the physical media i'll probably have it pre-transcode it and by-pass the watch folders. Big enough difference in CPU power between the qnap and the xeon based machine.
There is support for premium TwonkyDLNA instead of the built in version not sure if it is worth pursuning that since it looks like the free native version will cover what I was after.
There is support for premium TwonkyDLNA instead of the built in version not sure if it is worth pursuning that since it looks like the free native version will cover what I was after.