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A big portion of that is caused by the drives, so you’d have to compare the empty QNAP vs your empty machine. Also, depending on which NAS appliance, check that the CPU is actually powerful enough to run all your services.

will all my Jellyfin traffic go through the VPS and count as bandwidth used?

Yes.

Ah ok, sounds reasonable.

Do you actually need the GUI or is it simply a preference? Because investing 15 minutes in a proper ffmpeg script might be worth looking into.

Apart from that, what would that hybrid “ffmpeg-then-Handbrake” approach look like? What would be the goal here?

“Cloud” simply means it’s on other people’s machines.

No. Why do you think it is?

Back when I started this compatibility with clients was an issue; but I don’t use Android anymore. In any case, is this still an issue?

Um… How are we supposed to tell you if your unnamed DAV client will have problems with your unnamed new DAV server? Works fine for me.

I/O errors, nice. What kind of disk is this? Removable USB case? Fixed one? Are you able to test the disk in another case or directly plugged into a mainboard?

Check the output of dmesg after plugging it in.