Multimedia Performance

In the following tests we will, at first, play several high bitrate video clips off an external USB 3.0 compatible disk before playing them off the TS-569 Pro's internal storage (five HDDs configured in a JBOD linear disk volume). All tests include playbacks of videos with a bitrate of 20-90 Mbps, including M2TS files. The obtained results can be found in the table below.


The TS-569 Pro scored amazingly well on these tests. It easily played even the highest bitrate videos with only 1GB of memory, since we deliberately forwent installing the RAM upgrade that QNAP provided us with to figure out if the NAS could cope without an additional 1GB.

Let's check on some screenshots of the resource monitor graphs that were taken during 90 Mbps M2TS file playback.


The HD Station consumed significant system resources, at least during high bitrate video playback. It utilized around 22% of the CPU without any video playback, but CPU usage increased to 33% while a 20 Mbps MKV file was played back. As for the RAM usage: It was on the cusp. A problem would occur with a couple more apps running in the background, so users had better listen to QNAP's advice by upgrading to at least 2GB of RAM. 1GB and 2GB DDR3 SO-DIMMs are, after all, dead cheap nowadays. Besides the provided ADATA SO-DIMM that QNAP offers for a crazily high price, we also tested a Kingston SO-DIMM (KVR1333D3S8S9/2G); it worked like a charm.