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I picked up an Asrock J3455B-ITX motherboard and performed a bunch of tests. Here's what I've found: When a screen is plugged in (i was using VGA), the system was very unstable - rebooting every 5-10mins. Disconnecting VGA cable and USB keyboard helped. Used serial cable to monitor boot progress. Hardware transcoding worked in both Plex and Video station. I had 3 hardware transcoded streams (1 x video station, 2 x plex) running simultaneously without any problems. However - after a some time, hardware transcoding wouldn't work from either app until the system was restarted. When using the 2 onboard SATA ports only, the kernel would panic and reference something about activating the AHCI_LED. Adding in a 2 port AHCI SATA card seemed to get around it (although i need to do this anyway as 2 ports isn't enough!) Booting is pretty slow compared to 1.02b. Seems to hang at "Post init" for some time. Maybe due to the following "failed to send sync event, type resync, finish 0, interrupt 0?" Network speeds are pretty disappointing too. File transfer to my existing NAS (4 drive SHR array / jun loader 1.02b / DSM 6.1.7): Whereas to the new "test" nas (4 drive RAID 0 array / jun loader 1.03b / DSM 6.2): So for me to get a working system i need to: Install a 2 port PCI-e SATA controller to get around the AHCI_LED panic Switch to CSM/BIOS boot mode. Otherwise the boot process doesn't always pickup the SATA controller Ensure no VGA cable plugged in Ensure boot USB stick is in USB2 port (only 1 on the back, the rest are USB3) Need to investigate the transcoding issue and try speed up the network as it's terrible

All links below are provided for noobs and because I am a nice guy, but simply going to https://archive.synology.com/download/DSM/ or https://www.synology.com/en-global/support/download and then clicking the desired subsequent links will yield everything I am linking below. Seek and you shall find. Also keep in mind that I am not updating this post very often so you are better of learning how all this works. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DSM PAT files can be found here (Major updates): DSM 7.2.1U1 https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM/7.2.1-69057-1-NanoPacked Read this to know which platform to select DSM 7.2U1 https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM/7.2-64570-1-NanoPacked Read this to know which platform to select DSM 7.1.1U1: https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM/7.1.1-42962-1-NanoPacked Read this to know which platform to select DSM 7.1U1: https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM/7.1-42661-1-NanoPacked Read this to know which platform to select DSM 6.0.2: https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM/6.0.2-8451 Chose .pat file DS3615xs DSM 6.1: https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM/6.1-15047 Chose .pat file for DS3615xs or DS3617xs or DS916+ accordingly DSM 6.1.1: https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM/6.1.1-15101 Chose .pat file for DS3615xs or DS3617xs or DS916+ accordingly DSM 6.1.2: https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM/6.1.2-15132 Chose .pat file for DS3615xs or DS3617xs or DS916+ accordingly DSM 6.1.3: https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM/6.1.3-15152 Chose .pat file for DS3615xs or DS3617xs or DS916+ accordingly DSM 6.1.4: https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM/6.1.4-15217 Chose .pat file for DS3615xs or DS3617xs or DS916+ accordingly DSM 6.1.5: https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM/6.1.5-15254 Chose .pat file for DS3615xs or DS3617xs or DS916+ accordingly DSM6.1.6: https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM/6.1.6-15266 Chose .pat file for DS3615xs or DS3617xs or DS916+ accordingly DSM6.1.7: https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM/6.1.7-15284 Chose .pat file for DS3615xs or DS3617xs or DS916+ accordingly DSM6.2: https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM/6.2-23739 Chose .pat file for DS3615xs or DS3617xs or DS918+ accordingly DSM6.2.1: https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM/6.2.1-23824 Chose .pat file for DS3615xs or DS3617xs or DS918+ accordingly DSM6.2.2: https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM/6.2.2-24922 Chose .pat file for DS3615xs or DS3617xs or DS918+ accordingly DSM6.2.3: https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM/6.2.3-25426 Chose .pat file for DS3615xs or DS3617xs or DS918+ accordingly DSM6.2.4: https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM/6.2.4-25556 Chose .pat file for DS3615xs or DS3617xs or DS918+ accordingly Critical Updates for all DSM versions can be found here: http://download.synology.com/download/DSM/criticalupdate/update_pack/ or https://archive.synology.com/download/Os/DSM