Better than Drobo 5n?

Are you using SMB to access the Drobo through Kodi? No media server?

Rabbit_Games said:

Correct. All media is stored on the Drobo 5n with separate folders for each media type, and then separate folders for each movie or TV show. No Apps are running on the Drobo because it can't communicate with Drobo servers for some reason. Anyhow, the media just sits there. On the receiving end, each Shield has Kodi installed and connects to the Drobo with SMB shares to each folder.

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Well, I have two different Synology raids, one of which must be over 15 years old at this point, and they both serve 4k fine to my Shield, so if you're just looking to switch I don't think you could go wrong with pretty much any fairly recent Synology that fits your size/drive requirements. But before you do that, you didn't mention if it is hard-wired or using wifi, which might make a difference.

It's probably a transcoding problem on the shield end. What interface do you use Void ? Plex or kodi?

Edaw said:

It's probably a transcoding problem on the shield end. What interface do you use Void ? Plex or kodi?

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I use Kodi as well. With a different skin no less. I absolutely hate Plex if I'm at home, and tolerate it if I'm not.

I don't know anything about current Drobos, but I do know that before I bought my first Synology (so a long time ago) I bought one of the first Drobos and eventually returned it after a couple months of trying and failing to get the fucking thing to work reliably. Does this particular Drobo say that it can handle 4k? Also, there's a huge difference between a 4k webrip and a remux, and I specifically download remuxes when I can, and those work just fine on my hardwired Shield. So it isn't something the Shield can't handle.