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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.

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

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.

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.