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Thank you, We are aware of the situation with Google.
We are working with Google to resolve it.
It seems someone flagged it by accident. We’re waiting for Google to correct the problem.
In the interim, as curator of that guide, may I be of any help ?
Hey ChuckPa, I’d love to take you up on your offer… I too had issues loading the guide and so my decision on a NAS to use as stalled. I’m currently using an old Synology and I need to upgrade. I’m open to either another Synology or QNAP (I hear the QNAP’s are more capable) and I’m looking for a 6 or 8 drives. My biggest concern is transcoding ability for 1080 content and up to 4 streams with the ability to add a GPU later for additional streams or 4K transcoding as I begin to build my 4K library… any help with model suggestions in the 6 - 8 bay range from either brand that would hit this use case? Thanks!
If your ability to add a GPU card is a requirement, Synology will not be a candidate.
Their NAS offerings do not allow that level of expansion.
On the QNAP side,
(My apologies for this screenshot of my current Guide reconstruction efforts)
If you’ll be burning in subtitles, you’ll probably want to favor the i5 / i7 processors because all subtitle burning is performed by the CPU.
I have the now-discontinued TVS-1282-i7-64GB. It’s a beast and I’ve never needed an external GPU card even though the capability exists.
Sorry for a dumb question but how do I interpret the chart? The resolutions in the header row is which video formats the device can transcode and the 2 different sections are, software vs hardware transcoding?
Also, ability to add a GPU isn’t a definite requirement - I’m jus open to it, if the device doesn’t support hardware transcoding by default.
The QNAP models I’ve been looking at are the TS-673a, TS-873a, or the TVS-67sx however I’m open to cheaper models if it can perform what I need it to (6 drive minimum though). Thanks much for all the help mate!
The column headers are showing you the source INPUT video resolution / encoding.
The middle column group is for SW transcoding,
The right column group is for HW transcoding
The cell value tells you what happens:
- NO = It can’t do it at all
- YES = at least 1 stream (HW transcoding can usually do at least 4 , Host memory permitting )
- SOME = as it sounds – dependent on source input bitrate
Here’s the Legend I wrote from the bottom of the Guide.
EDIT:
To read through one example:
- TVS-1282-i7-32G (LIne 246)
- S/W transcoding for 480/576p,
- S/W transcoding for HD 720p
- S/W transcoding for HD 1080p
- SOME S/W transcoding for HD 2160p SDR input (bit rate dependent here)
- Cannot handle S/W transcoding for 2160p UHD/HDR
In the Hardware transcoding group
- 480p/576p - YES
- HD 720p - YES
- HD 1080p - YES
- H.264 2160p (not common) - Outputs H.264
- HEVC SDR 2160p - YES
- HEVC HDR 2160p YES
In practice, since I have this unit, I run out of CPU for audio before I run out of HW transcoding capability for the video.
The UHD630 is a strong and good Video ASIC.
Do you know if the Integrated AMD GPU in the QNAP TVS-673e can be used for hardware transcoding? Or are you limited to adding physical GPU cards for it?
Any update on getting the full document back? I’m comparing different options between qnap and synology.
HI @trumpy81 . thank you for the file. But, when i access the line for Synology DS920+ it shows FAQ#26. when click on the link it goes to FAQ#25. there is no FAQ#26 on the page forwarded.
If I may answer that?
FAQ 26 (the limitation of the drivers) is no longer a concern.
Only in a few rare cases do we need to manually override which driver PMS is using.
It usually only happens on extremely low bitrate videos.
Hi ChuckPa, would it be possible for you to upload the Synology guide as far as you have it reconstructed? Thanks!
Please use Trumpy’s posted copy.
It’s the most accurate there is in a readable form so far.
It’s not very far out of date. There are only a few QNAP models missing (QuTS)
Awesomeness passed from your hands! Thank you!
I would like to upgrade my NAS and one of the primary functions of it is Plex. Can I get a list of the latest models of NAS tested with Plex? Perhaps something with native Plex support as doing the manual updates is less than ideal. My budget is flexible, I would be willing to spend up to $3k for the right device if it will last a few years. I do have quite a bit of 4k content so hardware transcoding is prefered.
All the vendors offer, and use, automatic updating.
We send them updates all the time.
WD seems more timely about updating their package than others but not a very strong box.
QNAP and Syno (most popular) are not at all timely updating their package stores.
I have a QNap TVS-951X now and I have to manually download the Plex packages and then tell the NAS to manually update it
Albert,
You should find “Plex Media Server” in App Center.
Search for “Plex” and it will show or you can browse to it.
I did all that and it is running great. The issue is, the app doesn’t update automatically, I get a message in the Plex program telling me there is an update and a link to download the update, I then have to go into the NAS and use the manual install option to install the Plex update. Everything else on the NAS updates automatically.
the web is just to inform.
Linux, which includes the NAS boxes, can’t install the package themselves yet.
Mac and Windows can leverage the OS. (Linux is that strict)
We are working on something . That’s all I can tell you. This is a fairly often requested feature.
The issues we’re (mostly me) are dealing with is:
- Plex isn’t privileged on Linux Desktop systems
- Installing on NAS platforms is tricky as heck. Each one is custom
- Now deal with what happens should install fail. If using the host’s mechanism, there are safeguards. If Plex is updating itself, it could go
Ok so I think I’ve limited my selection down to either the QNAP TS-h886 or the TVS-872XT. Any comment on if one or the other is better from a plex perspective? I’m not sure what the “hero” edition really means from qnap? The TS-h886 looks to be the higher end unit to me with the xeon CPU and ECC ram.
Thanks
