Qnap TVS-882

General Discussions
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I’m hoping Plex Media Server won’t complain for a long while.

This will most likely be my final choice. It’s way better than WD PR4100 and I read in too many places Plex not working well with Synology NAS DiskStation DS916+. I’d love to hear what you guys think as well.

QNAP High Performance 8 bay (6+2) NAS/iSCSI IP-SAN. Intel Skylake Core i5 3.6 GHz Quad Core, 16GB RAM, 10G-ready, 450W power supply

he TVS-882 features advanced hardware by adopting 6th Generation Intel® 14nm multi-core processors and was designed around the concept of tiered storage, application-based partitioning and network traffic distribution. Featuring PCIe Gen.3 slots that can support 10GbE/40GbE NIC, PCIe NVMe SSD, graphics cards, and USB 3.1 expansion cards, the TVS-882 also supports smooth 4K @30Hz video transfer, cross-platform file sharing, comprehensive backup and disaster recovery, iSCSI & virtualization and more business applications. Incorporating reliability and security, the TVS-882 presents an ideal choice for a complete business-ready storage solution.

Built-in M.2 SATA 6Gb/s slots & 2.5” SSD slots
Qtier technology and SSD cache enable 24/7 optimized storage efficiency
The Network & Virtual Switch app assists network traffic distribution, and re-routes dedicated bandwidth for diverse applications
Triple HDMI output for smooth 4K video playback
Scalable design with economical QNAP storage expansion enclosures
Virtual JBOD (VJBOD) allows to use QNAP NAS to expand the  TVS-882’s storage capacity
Supports QRM+ unified remote server management, QvPC technology, virtual machine and container applications, and storage for virtualization

I will upgrade the 16GB ram to 64GB DDR4 2133 RAM MODULE LONG DIMM when Newegg has them on sale in the future.

Newegg says:

Default/ Max. Memory
Total DIMM slots: 4
Maximum memory: 32GB (8GB x 4)
Memory modules pre-installed: 16GB DDR4 RAM (8GB x 2)

but

QNAP says:

DDR4 2133 MHz memory

Supports four DDR4 memory modules for a maximum of 64GB RAM.

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I think I’m gonna move ahead to buy it. I hope I’m making the right choice.

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Hello
I have ds2415 and this 882
I have a plex server installed on both
I did several tests
By watching a movie with a very high bitrate on a tv and a pc at the same time, the syno could not read it while the qnap without any problem
The qnap is really fast for pkex.

My use is also professional, virtualization, docker, etc … the qnap has brought me a gain of power, synology now serves me as a backup server, and for plex as a secondary server

my model is 16go ram / core i5

It is a real bomb you will not regret it

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The base TVS-882 has an i3-6100 CPU in it with about 5400+ passmarks. It’s a little faster than the CPU I have in my Asustor AS-7004T NAS, (at 5000+ passmarks.) I don’t think you will go wrong with this NAS, as long as you realize that it’s not going to be an outstanding 4K transcoder. Not many devices have native H265 support, so this codec will require transcoding, and the TVS-882 might not be able to keep up with it.

There are other CPU choices for that model as well, and they just get progressively faster…

Other than that, this looks to be an outstanding PMS machine. With a lot of room to grow your media library, as disk space is filled, just add another disk. When the bays are full, start going to externals. (This is what I’ve done, with over 30TB hanging on or in my NAS.)

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Plex does not use very much memory so 16gb is more than enough. Honestly 8 would be just fine.
If there is an i7 version of the qnap then that would help when transcoding more than 2 videos.