Okay, so, long story short, I've been running xpenology for over a year on a Bosch DVR appliance I inherited. It's got a nice 4-bay form-factor, has an all intel-chipset, and has more or less just worked, as long as I didn't mess up my bootloaders.
However, I'm noticing Plex playback is very laggy, especially now that I'm starting to add 4k to my collection, and I was hoping to remedy that.
I've always ran the DS3615xs firmware...and in reading up on hardware decoding, noticed mention t