Network setup for 4k UHD playback

[faxfan2002]

Hi All,

Just wanted to check the network setup for 4k UHD playback. My thoughts are -

Synology NAS with UHD files (just a standard RIP), shared
Asus mini PC running Ubuntu with Plex, mounting shared directory from Synology as the library
-> 4k playback at this point seems ok to a browser on a PC
** all of the above plugged into the same gigabit switch **

I've read that 4k UHD streaming can hit 128MB/s which does exceed the current 108MB/s transfer rate I'm seeing (the theoretical being 120MB/s but taking into filesystems etc. it's more like 108MB/s).

What are people's experience / suggestions / thoughts on this??

Thanks.

[Billycar11]

It can hit 128 Mbps not 128 MBs.
So that's like 12 MBs you have about 10 times what you need on gig

[ColonelBlimp043]

Gigabit ethernet is more than sufficient for 4K rips. Disc bitrates are typically measured in megabits per second, not megabytes. UHD bitrates max out at about 144Mb/s (or 18 MB/s), though they rarely use that much bandwidth in practice. 60-80 Mb/s (or 7.5-10 MB/s) is much more typical for a disc. Gigabit ethernet supports transfers of about 125 MB/s. It can comfortably support about six full bitrate UHD streams, and practically, it will support more because streams rarely use the max bitrate.

[ArArdin]

Maybe you want to consider what sharing protocol to use.
Where in the early days NFS proved more stable, SMB has improved immensely over the years. Still, a lot of Synology and Linux users would claim NFS as the better performing protocol.
I think there's only one way to find out. Try both and see for yourself.