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Just a quick guide from my installation of DSM 6.2.1 Update4, before I forget it. The process was much easier than I expected, thanks to all the contributions and sharing in this forum. *** This guide required MODDED BIOS and a HP NC360T NIC *** Hardware Setup Flash kamzata's modded bios, use attached file to burn an USB drive with the modded bios, boot the server from it and let it completes the bios flashing Install the HP NC360T NIC, I bought a used one in Taobao for 14 bucks Load "Optimal Defaults" from BIOS, then In Advance page, disable C1E Support In Chipset page, disable the onboard NIC Atheros AR8132M NIC DSM Installation Download Jun's Loader v1.03b DS3615xs (Synoboot_3615.zip | 17.3 MB | MD5 = e145097bbff03c767cc59b00e60c4ded) Download PAT file DS31615xs DSM 6.2.1-23824 Update4 (263MB) Prepare the USB boot drive, I followed Polanskiman's tutorial to write the generated SN, USB vid and pid in to grub.cfg boot image then burned it to my USB drive (below steps also come from Polanskiman's tutorial, really recommended to read it through) Boot the USB drive, select the 1st option (or just let it timeout in a sec), wait for 10mins then run Synology Assistant, your Microserver should be found as a "Not Installed" DSM Right click on the found DSM and select install, browse to the download PAT file above. Installation will take some time (10mins for my 8TB drives) Post Installation Enable SSH login Update packages Add SynoCommunity package sources - http://packages.synocommunity.com/ Packages Log Center Storage Analyzer Photo Station Audio Station Surveillance Station Transmission WIP Using Webcam as an IPcam with Surveillance Station Kamzata Modded BIOS - run HPQUSB.rar

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1) Not sure about 9th gen, coz I've never thought of using anything higher than my pentium G5400 at this moment, I'd rather save electricity lol A NAS is supposed to be idle most of the time... Too much CPU power is useless in my use case however, the CPU itself should work, just the internal graphics card might not give you flawless hardware transcoding without driver mods 2) Not sure, not even sure if the card is compatible with non-syno boards maybe you should look up the official synology list: https://www.synology.com/en-global/compatibility?search_by=category&category=network_interface_cards&p=1 3) I can only make sure ASMedia ASM1061 (2ports) and Marvell 88SE9215 (4-ports) work with DSM as I used them now and before, many others might work as long as they support AHCI P.S. the ds918+ loader has a limit on the number of SATA drives, be careful when doing so.

Basically any Intel system newer than Haswell plus an Intel NIC would give u a safe result, although I would really really wanna try Ryzen, I need to use VMM in the NAS and AMD systems wouldn't work with Synology's VMM, what a pity I personally use Pentium G5400 on an OEM B365 itx board with dual Intel i211 NIC, 6 onboard SATA, 1x m.2 nvme slot However, as I read before the nvme support on xpenology may be tricky, and one nvme slot could only give me read cache instead of read/write cache in my DS918+ system, plus I wouldn't want to SSH mount the nvme drive as it doesn't give me a safe feeling about the data on it. Therefore I'd just ditch the nvme drives. Aggregated 2x GbE still can't saturate a normal SATA SSD anyway. Currently the PCIe x16 slot is empty because my itx chassis doesn't have a PCIe slot, but if in the future I have access to a 10GbE maybe I'll just get something like a mining card extender etc to slot in the card externally lol So, for your case, it is good to know you are not limited to mITX like me, getting a full size 24x24cm mATX board will give u 4 PCIe card slots to expand your build, may it be network cards or RAID cards, or even server nvme SSDs. I'd recommend a H310/B365/H370 board plus an Intel Pentium G5400/i3 8100 or something equivalent, the performance of G5400 will be between the original syno DS3615xs and DS3617xs. And you'll also get H.265 hardware transcoding for 8th Gen CPUs.