TS-873AeU - anyone using?

[LockeScribe]

I'm having a difficult time finding specific reviews to this newest version, possibly because it is so new, but it really checks off all the boxes for me. Short-depth, 2U, plenty of expansion. I'm wanting to run at least one VM on it for my Omada WiFi AP software along with Plex and Surveillance Station. I'll be bumping the RAM to 64GB.

Other questions:

1) Supply of the single-port 10GBE cards seems lacking; is anyone using a different Aquantia card in their device?
2) I'm guessing for ideal VM performance I'll want to run a standalone VM storage pool with M.2 NVMe drives. What drives are y'all using? Heatsinks?
3) Any other general insights or "gotchas" you've found. I know that the Ryzen chip can't do 4K transcoding, but that's not a deal breaker for me.

[dolbyman]

1) Use one from the list and you should be OK
https://www.qnap.com/en-me/compatibilit ... ategory=11
2) Probably best to use from this list
https://www.qnap.com/en-me/compatibilit ... tegory=ssd
3) 4k HDR tonmapping transcoding was the No1 reason I got a 1288X, raw CPU performance enables tonemapping for Plex, Plex with low spec CPU or no HW GPU support can be tricky.

[LockeScribe]

I mainly use direct playback to an NVidia Shield for 4K. I suppose if it struggles I could continue to use my 5600G server to host the Plex services and just keep the shares on the NAS. Thanks for the info!