Am about to order this or the tvs-1282.
Any feedback on it’s PMS performance and general usage?
Both are good boxes. From a pure CPU perspective, Ryzen 7 1700 will outperform the Intel by close to 30% based on Passmark. Intel currently have the advantage with HW transcoding, although some say that SW Transcoding looks better from a video quality perspective.
Ryzen you can add a GPU, and there are ways leveraging a Win10 VM to get HW transcoding to potentially work with an NVidia card.
Assuming that Intel updated a needed driver late last year, there maybe the potential that you could leverage an NVidia card in native QNAP Plex app down the road.
I have a TS-877 w/1600 and there is plenty of horsepower for SW transcoding that I really don’t I didn’t even bother to mess with worrying about HW transcoding at this point.
Augmenting MwC here. It is well known that software transcoding does produce better quality output than hardware. As hardware transcoding matures, that difference will become less and less. At some point, they will no longer be discernible
Thanks Gentlemen,
I have ordered the TVS-1282 32gb 450w with the new 770 chip
I have been reading and asking here and qnap forums the best 1st setup.
Lets say its a plex server 1st and vm etc 2nd.
How would you both personally set this up the first time ?
8x 8TB Raid6 - qtier?
2xM2 500gb wd blue as cache ?
2x250gb Samsung EVO SSD - raid1 - qtier? or home for PMS
2x120 SSD ??? raid1 - qtier or PMS?
Thin? Thick? Static? Qtier, Raid, Cache , volumes, Pools Who says computers are not fun`?
FYI this will be my first qnap device so a lot of new words to qlearn!
Hey Chuck ,
Trexx has given me his suggestion on the Qnap forum
What would you do if you were setting up your qnap again with what I have described?
Just an FYI, I have validated the following setup DOES work as expected:
- x77 Ryzen based NAS
- Nvidia 1060-based GPU
- GPU Passthrough to Virtualization Station
- WIndows 10 x64 w/latest NVidia Drivers installed
- Latest PlexPass build of Plex
I tested HW Transcoding and it worked just fine in the above configuration (and actually it was fairly performant). Now I do have the VM files stored on an SSD volume which also helps with performance.
So Plex HW Transcoding (leveraging GPU Passthrough) does work just fine in a Win10 VM.
@MwC_Trexx said:
Just an FYI, I have validated the following setup DOES work as expected:
- x77 Ryzen based NAS
- Nvidia 1060-based GPU
- GPU Passthrough to Virtualization Station
- WIndows 10 x64 w/latest NVidia Drivers installed
- Latest PlexPass build of Plex
I tested HW Transcoding and it worked just fine in the above configuration (and actually it was fairly performant). Now I do have the VM files stored on an SSD volume which also helps with performance.
So Plex HW Transcoding (leveraging GPU Passthrough) does work just fine in a Win10 VM.
I know this is a Plex forum, but you’re about the only person I know who’s done this, so I wanted to ask you a non-Plex question on your setup. Can you run Nvidia’s GameStream on your VM (with the 1060 pass through), and use that VM to stream games to an Nvidia Shield?
@acontrasto said:
@MwC_Trexx said:
Just an FYI, I have validated the following setup DOES work as expected:
- x77 Ryzen based NAS
- Nvidia 1060-based GPU
- GPU Passthrough to Virtualization Station
- WIndows 10 x64 w/latest NVidia Drivers installed
- Latest PlexPass build of Plex
I tested HW Transcoding and it worked just fine in the above configuration (and actually it was fairly performant). Now I do have the VM files stored on an SSD volume which also helps with performance.
So Plex HW Transcoding (leveraging GPU Passthrough) does work just fine in a Win10 VM.
I know this is a Plex forum, but you’re about the only person I know who’s done this, so I wanted to ask you a non-Plex question on your setup. Can you run Nvidia’s GameStream on your VM (with the 1060 pass through), and use that VM to stream games to an Nvidia Shield?
No idea. I don’t play PC games, but in theory is should be possible I would think.
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Starting today, GeForce Now is a free service. Nvidia has sent out emails to customers saying, “Over the next few months, we’ll be upgrading your GeForce NOW service. You’ll continue to have access to your favorite membership titles and games you’ve purchased through the GeForce NOW store. To reward our loyal GeForce NOW gamers, we’ll stop billing your account as of May 15th, 2018 to make the transition as smooth as possible.”
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