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QNAP TS-873A

QNAP TS-873A, supremely versatile business NAS.

Specifications

Linux kernel

Running QuTS Hero 5.2.0.2737 (beta).

[~] # uname -a
Linux QNAP 5.10.60-qnap #1 SMP Wed Apr 17 09:40:49 CST 2024 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Older QuTS versions

Running QuTS Hero 5.0.0.1772.

[~] # uname -a
Linux QNAP 5.10.55-qnap #1 SMP Thu Aug 26 11:38:38 CST 2021 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Running QuTS Hero 4.5.3.1698.

[~] # uname -a
Linux QNAP 4.14.24-qnap #1 SMP Sat Jun 12 07:59:04 CST 2021 x86_64 GNU/Linux

CPU information

[~] # sed '/^$/d' < /proc/cpuinfo | grep -m 1 'model name' | cut -c14-
AMD Ryzen Embedded V1500B Quad-core CPU @ 2.20GHz
Full output
[~] # cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 23
model           : 17
model name      : AMD Ryzen Embedded V1500B Quad-core CPU @ 2.20GHz
stepping        : 0
microcode       : 0x8101016
cpu MHz         : 1954.227
cache size      : 512 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 8
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 0
initial apicid  : 0
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 13
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt
pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid
aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt
aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm
sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw skinit wdt tce topoext perfctr_core
perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx cpb hw_pstate sme ssbd sev ibpb vmmcall
sev_es fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 rdseed adx smap clflushopt sha_ni
xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves clzero irperf xsaveerptr arat npt lbrv
svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists
pausefilter pfthreshold avic v_vmsave_vmload vgif overflow_recov succor
smca
bugs            : sysret_ss_attrs null_seg spectre_v1
spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass
bogomips        : 4391.49
TLB size        : 2560 4K pages
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 43 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm hwpstate eff_freq_ro [13] [14]

processor       : 1
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 23
model           : 17
model name      : AMD Ryzen Embedded V1500B Quad-core CPU @ 2.20GHz
stepping        : 0
microcode       : 0x8101016
cpu MHz         : 1955.271
cache size      : 512 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 8
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 1
initial apicid  : 1
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 13
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt
pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid
aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt
aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm
sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw skinit wdt tce topoext perfctr_core
perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx cpb hw_pstate sme ssbd sev ibpb vmmcall
sev_es fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 rdseed adx smap clflushopt sha_ni
xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves clzero irperf xsaveerptr arat npt lbrv
svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists
pausefilter pfthreshold avic v_vmsave_vmload vgif overflow_recov succor
smca
bugs            : sysret_ss_attrs null_seg spectre_v1
spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass
bogomips        : 4391.49
TLB size        : 2560 4K pages
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 43 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm hwpstate eff_freq_ro [13] [14]

processor       : 2
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 23
model           : 17
model name      : AMD Ryzen Embedded V1500B Quad-core CPU @ 2.20GHz
stepping        : 0
microcode       : 0x8101016
cpu MHz         : 1954.071
cache size      : 512 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 8
core id         : 1
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 2
initial apicid  : 2
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 13
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt
pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid
aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt
aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm
sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw skinit wdt tce topoext perfctr_core
perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx cpb hw_pstate sme ssbd sev ibpb vmmcall
sev_es fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 rdseed adx smap clflushopt sha_ni
xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves clzero irperf xsaveerptr arat npt lbrv
svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists
pausefilter pfthreshold avic v_vmsave_vmload vgif overflow_recov succor
smca
bugs            : sysret_ss_attrs null_seg spectre_v1
spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass
bogomips        : 4391.49
TLB size        : 2560 4K pages
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 43 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm hwpstate eff_freq_ro [13] [14]

processor       : 3
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 23
model           : 17
model name      : AMD Ryzen Embedded V1500B Quad-core CPU @ 2.20GHz
stepping        : 0
microcode       : 0x8101016
cpu MHz         : 1954.425
cache size      : 512 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 8
core id         : 1
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 3
initial apicid  : 3
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 13
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt
pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid
aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt
aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm
sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw skinit wdt tce topoext perfctr_core
perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx cpb hw_pstate sme ssbd sev ibpb vmmcall
sev_es fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 rdseed adx smap clflushopt sha_ni
xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves clzero irperf xsaveerptr arat npt lbrv
svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists
pausefilter pfthreshold avic v_vmsave_vmload vgif overflow_recov succor
smca
bugs            : sysret_ss_attrs null_seg spectre_v1
spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass
bogomips        : 4391.49
TLB size        : 2560 4K pages
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 43 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm hwpstate eff_freq_ro [13] [14]

processor       : 4
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 23
model           : 17
model name      : AMD Ryzen Embedded V1500B Quad-core CPU @ 2.20GHz
stepping        : 0
microcode       : 0x8101016
cpu MHz         : 1954.314
cache size      : 512 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 8
core id         : 2
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 4
initial apicid  : 4
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 13
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt
pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid
aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt
aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm
sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw skinit wdt tce topoext perfctr_core
perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx cpb hw_pstate sme ssbd sev ibpb vmmcall
sev_es fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 rdseed adx smap clflushopt sha_ni
xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves clzero irperf xsaveerptr arat npt lbrv
svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists
pausefilter pfthreshold avic v_vmsave_vmload vgif overflow_recov succor
smca
bugs            : sysret_ss_attrs null_seg spectre_v1
spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass
bogomips        : 4391.49
TLB size        : 2560 4K pages
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 43 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm hwpstate eff_freq_ro [13] [14]

processor       : 5
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 23
model           : 17
model name      : AMD Ryzen Embedded V1500B Quad-core CPU @ 2.20GHz
stepping        : 0
microcode       : 0x8101016
cpu MHz         : 1954.611
cache size      : 512 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 8
core id         : 2
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 5
initial apicid  : 5
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 13
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt
pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid
aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt
aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm
sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw skinit wdt tce topoext perfctr_core
perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx cpb hw_pstate sme ssbd sev ibpb vmmcall
sev_es fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 rdseed adx smap clflushopt sha_ni
xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves clzero irperf xsaveerptr arat npt lbrv
svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists
pausefilter pfthreshold avic v_vmsave_vmload vgif overflow_recov succor
smca
bugs            : sysret_ss_attrs null_seg spectre_v1
spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass
bogomips        : 4391.49
TLB size        : 2560 4K pages
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 43 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm hwpstate eff_freq_ro [13] [14]

processor       : 6
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 23
model           : 17
model name      : AMD Ryzen Embedded V1500B Quad-core CPU @ 2.20GHz
stepping        : 0
microcode       : 0x8101016
cpu MHz         : 1932.097
cache size      : 512 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 8
core id         : 3
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 6
initial apicid  : 6
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 13
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt
pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid
aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt
aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm
sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw skinit wdt tce topoext perfctr_core
perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx cpb hw_pstate sme ssbd sev ibpb vmmcall
sev_es fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 rdseed adx smap clflushopt sha_ni
xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves clzero irperf xsaveerptr arat npt lbrv
svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists
pausefilter pfthreshold avic v_vmsave_vmload vgif overflow_recov succor
smca
bugs            : sysret_ss_attrs null_seg spectre_v1
spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass
bogomips        : 4391.49
TLB size        : 2560 4K pages
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 43 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm hwpstate eff_freq_ro [13] [14]

processor       : 7
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 23
model           : 17
model name      : AMD Ryzen Embedded V1500B Quad-core CPU @ 2.20GHz
stepping        : 0
microcode       : 0x8101016
cpu MHz         : 1911.751
cache size      : 512 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 8
core id         : 3
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 7
initial apicid  : 7
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 13
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt
pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid
aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt
aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm
sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw skinit wdt tce topoext perfctr_core
perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx cpb hw_pstate sme ssbd sev ibpb vmmcall
sev_es fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 rdseed adx smap clflushopt sha_ni
xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves clzero irperf xsaveerptr arat npt lbrv
svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists
pausefilter pfthreshold avic v_vmsave_vmload vgif overflow_recov succor
smca
bugs            : sysret_ss_attrs null_seg spectre_v1
spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass
bogomips        : 4391.49
TLB size        : 2560 4K pages
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 43 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm hwpstate eff_freq_ro [13] [14]

AMD Ryzen™ Embedded V1500B

Memory information

See Memory upgrades

[~] # cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:       65824156 kB
MemFree:        57450896 kB
MemAvailable:   57395092 kB
Buffers:           23360 kB
Cached:           904984 kB
SwapCached:            0 kB
Active:           789444 kB
Inactive:         569448 kB
Active(anon):     612776 kB
Inactive(anon):   132268 kB
Active(file):     176668 kB
Inactive(file):   437180 kB
Unevictable:       15808 kB
Mlocked:           15808 kB
SwapTotal:      65850360 kB
SwapFree:       65850360 kB
Dirty:                 0 kB
Writeback:             0 kB
AnonPages:        446304 kB
Mapped:           142464 kB
Shmem:            315568 kB
Slab:             371116 kB
SReclaimable:      96004 kB
SUnreclaim:       275112 kB
KernelStack:       33636 kB
PageTables:        35920 kB
NFS_Unstable:          0 kB
Bounce:                0 kB
WritebackTmp:          0 kB
CommitLimit:    98762436 kB
Committed_AS:    7178028 kB
VmallocTotal:   34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed:           0 kB
VmallocChunk:          0 kB
HardwareCorrupted:     0 kB
HugePages_Total:       0
HugePages_Free:        0
HugePages_Rsvd:        0
HugePages_Surp:        0
Hugepagesize:       2048 kB
DirectMap4k:      412720 kB
DirectMap2M:     5830656 kB
DirectMap1G:    61865984 kB

Upgrades

Memory

QNAP's TS-873A comes with 8GB of DDR4-2666 non ECC memory as standard. This is a Kingston product marketed as QNAP RAM under part number RAM-8GDR4T0-SO-2666.

Upgraded to 64GB of DDR4-2666 ECC Unbuffered memory from Kingston with part number KSM26SED8/32ME.

System SSD

QNAP just like Synology devices have an internal flash memory chip. This is where the default QuTS/QTS/DSM operating system and configuration are stored. Whichever drive (SSD or HDD) that you initially setup your QNAP with will house not only your apps but also QNAP configuration itself, etc...

QNAP's TS-873A comes with two M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 x1 slots that were populated with Samsung 980 500GB SSDs, part number MZ-V8V500BW.

Video

PNY NVIDIA® Quadro® P1000, mainly used for Plex Media Server Hardware-Accelerated Streaming.

After installing the card into the TS-873A, QTS/QuTS should automatically install the required package NVIDIA® kernel driver package. If the package isn't installed automatically, open the QNAP App Center and install the latest NVIDIA_GPU_DRV (QTS) or NvKernelDriver (QuTS) package. Also install the NVIDIA GPU Driver package.

Under Control Panel > Hardware > Hardware Resources, set the installed graphics card to QTS mode.

Force HW video encoding/decoding in Plex Media Server

In some cases and for seamingly unknown reasons, even when setting the graphics card to QTS mode in the QTS/QuTS interface as explained above, Plex Media Server won't use it for hardware video encoding/decoding.

To force Plex to use the installed graphics card, make sure the card is properly detected:

[~] # gpuhal_app -l
1:NVIDIA Corporation:GP107GL [Quadro P1000]:external:7

Get graphics card information, such as mode and installed drivers:

[~] # gpuhal_app -s 1
active_status=2,real_status=2,driverqpkg=NVIDIA_GPU_DRV,driver_installed=1,in_used=none,transcode=1,display=1,pcie_slot=1,pcie_vp=1,va_type=none

Check that the card has a device file and a render node under /dev/dri/:

[~] # ls -la /dev/dri/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 admin administrators       80 2022-02-18 11:22 ./
drwxr-xr-x 17 admin administrators    21380 2022-02-25 13:53 ../
crw-------  1 admin administrators 226,   0 2022-02-18 11:22 card0
crw-------  1 admin administrators 226, 128 2022-02-18 11:22 renderD128

Add the following to your Preferences.xml file and restart Plex Media Server.

[~] # nano /share/ZFS530_DATA/.qpkg/PlexMediaServer/Library/Plex\ Media\ Server/Preferences.xml
[...] HardwareDevicePath="/dev/dri/renderD128"

You should now be able to use hardware video encoding/decoding.

Source

Potential additional upgrades

PCIe

  • QM2-2P-384 - Dual M.2 22110/2280 PCIe NVMe SSD expansion card
  • QM2-2P10G1TA - Dual M.2 2280 PCIe NVMe SSD & single-port 10GbE expansion card

Storage expansion

  • TR-004 - 4 Bay USB Type-C Direct Attached Storage with Hardware RAID

Configuration

Persistant crontab

The normal method of editing your crontab does not work on QNAP NAS' as it does not persist after a reboot. To make crontab changes persistant, do the following:

[~] # nano /etc/config/crontab
[~] # crontab /etc/config/crontab
[~] # /etc/init.d/crond.sh restart

Usage

Fix nvidia-smi PATH

When trying to invoke the nvidia-smi utility from the command-line, the command fails with the following error:

[~] # /share/ZFS530_DATA/.qpkg/NVIDIA_GPU_DRV/usr/bin/nvidia-smi
NVIDIA-SMI couldn't find libnvidia-ml.so library in your system. Please make sure that the NVIDIA Display Driver is properly installed and present in your system.
Please also try adding directory that contains libnvidia-ml.so to your system PATH.

To fix this, add the necessary directory to your PATH as follows:

[~] # export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/share/ZFS530_DATA/.qpkg/NVIDIA_GPU_DRV/usr/nvidia.u18.04$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
[~] # /share/ZFS530_DATA/.qpkg/NVIDIA_GPU_DRV/usr/bin/nvidia-smi
Sun Oct 22 16:53:20 2023
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 515.48.07    Driver Version: 515.48.07    CUDA Version: 11.7     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                               |                      |               MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  Quadro P1000        Off  | 00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| 41%   39C    P0    N/A /  N/A |    422MiB /  4096MiB |      1%      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                  |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                  GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                   Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|  No running processes found                                                 |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Only /share/ZFS530_DATA/.qpkg/NVIDIA_GPU_DRV/usr/nvidia.u18.04 can be added to LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

[~] # find / -path /share/ZFS19_DATA/ -prune -o -name "libnvidia-ml.so" -print
/share/ZFS530_DATA/.qpkg/NVIDIA_GPU_DRV/usr/lib/libnvidia-ml.so
/share/ZFS530_DATA/.qpkg/NVIDIA_GPU_DRV/usr/nvidia/libnvidia-ml.so
/share/ZFS530_DATA/.qpkg/NVIDIA_GPU_DRV/usr/nvidia.u18.04/libnvidia-ml.so
/share/ZFS530_DATA/.qpkg/NVIDIA_GPU_DRV/cuda-11.7/targets/x86_64-linux/lib/stubs/libnvidia-ml.so
[~] #

Using any other directory listed above allows for nvidia-smi to work as expected but results in PMS failing to start with the following error:

[~] # /share/ZFS530_DATA/.qpkg/PlexMediaServer/plex.sh restart
Plex Media Server hasn't been enabled or started...
Starting Plex Media Server...
[~] # Error relocating ./Plex Media Server: drmGetDevices2: symbol not found

The PATH issue was reported to QNAP on November 23rd 2021 but was discarded with the following reply:

The [NVIDIA GPU Driver] qpkg is used for NAS web UI to display NVidia GPU card status, so it can be assigned to HD Station, Linux Station, or Hardware Transcoding. This qpkg doesn't provide the library path in the environment by default.

Update Samsung SSD Firmware

https://blog.quindorian.org/2021/05/firmware-update-samsung-ssd-in-linux.html/

[~] # wget https://download.semiconductor.samsung.com/resources/software-resources/Samsung_SSD_980_3B4QFXO7.iso
[~] # mkdir /mnt/iso
[~] # mount -o loop ./Samsung_SSD_980_3B4QFXO7.iso /mnt/iso/
[~] # mkdir /tmp/fwupdate
[~] # cd /tmp/fwupdate
[~] # gzip -dc /mnt/iso/initrd | cpio -idv
[~] # cd root/fumagician/
[~] # ./fumagician