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I am pretty sure i350 onboard NIC is e1000e so that should be ok. If you wish to prove with another NIC get yourself a cheap Intel CT $20 and try that.

Also be sure you are setting up Legacy BIOS boot (not UEFI) with 1.03b. See more here: https://xpenology.com/forum/topic/13333-tutorialreference-6x-loaders-and-platforms/

I would expect that motherboard to run 1.03b and associated DSM platform well. Make sure you are building your system and connecting with the gigabit port first. Also, try DS3615xs instead of DS3617xs. You don't need the cores support of DS3617xs.

there is a driver ax88179_178a.ko in the extra.lzma, so asix ax188179 based usb nic's should work there is also a 5GBit nic usb driver present, in my latest extra.lzma, should work with 1Gbit too https://xpenology.com/forum/topic/22862-usb-31-gen-2-or-thunderbolt-z390-work/?do=findComment&comment=129770

If all your problems started after that power supply replacement, this further reinforces the idea of stable power. You seem reluctant to believe that a new power supply can be a problem (it can). For what it's worth, 13 drives x 5w equals 65w, that shouldn't be a factor. In any debugging and recovery operation, the objective should be to manage the change rate and therefore risk. Replacing the whole system would violate that strategy. Do the drive connectivity failures implicate a SAS card problem? Maybe, but a much more plausible explanation is physical connectivity or power. If you have an identical SAS card, and it is passive (no intrinsic configuration required), replacing it is a low risk troubleshooting strategy. Do failures implicate the motherboard? Maybe, if you are using on-board SATA ports, but the same plausibility test applies. However, there is more variability and risk (mobo model, BIOS settings, etc). Do failures implicate DSM or loader stability? Not at all; DSM boots fine and is not crashing. And if you reinstall DSM, it's very likely your arrays will be destructively reconfigured. Please don't do this. So I'll stand by (and extend) my previous statement - if this were my system, I would change your power and cables first. If that doesn't solve things, maybe the SAS card, and lastly the motherboard.

Thank you! Login (replace URL, PORT, USER, PASS) https://URL:PORT/webapi/auth.cgi?api=SYNO.API.Auth&method=Login&version=1&account=USER&passwd=PASS ActiveBackup https://URL:PORT/webapi/entry.cgi?api=SYNO.ActiveBackup.Activation&method=get&version=1 Set ActivationStatus (use your SERIALNUMBER) https://URL:PORT/webapi/entry.cgi?api=SYNO.ActiveBackup.Activation&method=set&version=1&activated=true&serial_number="SERIALNUMBER" 

Hello, thank you to those of you who make all this work. I have two Xpenology boxen, both on DSM 6.0.2-8451 Update 9, both using Jun's Loader. One is an i3 and the other an AMD FX6300. Both machines work well and behave identically for purposes of this question. Whatever I do, I cannot find the option to make an SHR RAID. It was present in DSM 5 when I first began messing around with Xpenology, but whatever I do, I don't get the option now. Information is, to put it mildly, nonexistant on this issue. Every Google search turns up plenty of evidence that I should get the option to create an SHR in the first screen of the RAID creation wizard. I have a set of screenshots here that show what I see. Disks 11 and 12 are currently in a PetaSpace volume (Volume 1 and Volume 2), but can and will be wiped and added to the SHR if I can find a way to do it. Disks 9 and 10 are ready to use. When I click "Create" in the RAID Group pane, I just get asked if I want a RAID Group for single or multiple volumes. No matter which one I pick, I only get the standard RAID types, no SHR. I see no evidence anywhere that Synology has stopped offering or supporting SHR. I also don't need to be convinced whether or not to use it versus a standard RAID level. That's not really the point - I just want to know where the hell it went. Thanks for any help you can provide.

Try this then: sudo -i, admin password, and then "vi /etc.defaults/synoinfo.conf, then type your administrator password. Press i, make your modifications, then esc. After that type :w! then :q!."

OK now i understand. Thank you. Here they says that for DS3615xs SHR is not supported in DSM 5.1-5021 and later... But ont DSM 6.1 manual SHR is still there. Just a question, if i made a 2hdd raid1 can i expand it to raid5 if i add one more hdd?