I am just wondering what are people experiences using the TS-1685? I am getting this one and I am excited. I wasn’t sure if somebody may have a tip or suggestion. Thank you in advance 
Nice one, i don’tknow how good the Xeon is for video hardware transcoding maybe you should do some research about that.
I have its smaller brother TVS-1282 with an I7 , multiply plex stream transcoding and plenty of cpu power left !.
Grtz Richard
Neither the D-1521 nor D-1531 have hardware transcoding capability where the i7 does.
The i7 shipped with the TVS-1282-i7T3 is now an i7-7700 (KabyLake). It is the bigger brother.
Please refer to the NAS Compatibility guide for more information. Lines 166-167 vs 215-223
https://support.plex.tv/articles/201373803-nas-compatibility-list/
@ChuckPA said:
Neither the D-1521 nor D-1531 have hardware transcoding capability where the i7 does.
The i7 shipped with the TVS-1282-i7T3 is now an i7-7700 (KabyLake). It is the bigger brother.Please refer to the NAS Compatibility guide for more information. Lines 166-167 vs 215-223
https://support.plex.tv/articles/201373803-nas-compatibility-list/
Hmmm… that kind of sucks then.
"For beefier QNAP’s to handle 4k, here are a few options. Note there are various drive/cpu versions of some of these so I just picked one from each family.
Plex also has a preview (ie. beta) version for PlexPass users that supports HW accelerated transcoding for some QNAP models as well.
TS-1685: TS-1685 - Features | QNAP
TS-x82: TVS-682 - Features | QNAP
TVS-x71: (older generation) TVS-871 | Hardware Specs | QNAP"
Found on another post that threw me off 
@natethegreat141990 said:
@ChuckPA said:
Neither the D-1521 nor D-1531 have hardware transcoding capability where the i7 does.
The i7 shipped with the TVS-1282-i7T3 is now an i7-7700 (KabyLake). It is the bigger brother.Please refer to the NAS Compatibility guide for more information. Lines 166-167 vs 215-223
https://support.plex.tv/articles/201373803-nas-compatibility-list/
Hmmm… that kind of sucks then.
"For beefier QNAP’s to handle 4k, here are a few options. Note there are various drive/cpu versions of some of these so I just picked one from each family.
Plex also has a preview (ie. beta) version for PlexPass users that supports HW accelerated transcoding for some QNAP models as well.
TS-1685: TS-1685 - Features | QNAP
TS-x82: TVS-682 - Features | QNAP
TVS-x71: (older generation) TVS-871 | Hardware Specs | QNAP"
Found on another post that threw me off
There are no ‘previews’ Everything is available in normal production from the downloads page.
I guess the question comes down to how one defines ‘Beefier’.
Does that mean:
- More CPU cores/threads?
- More drive bays?
- Can use hardware transcoding?
FWIW, the i7 versions get the i7-7700 KabyLake which is no slouch at 3.6 Ghz (base clock)
