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A fun and exciting challenge, yes. Little to no support, bug fixes, etc. afterwards, so diminishing returns. Front LED lights, cooling fan all seemingly not working well and truth be told, grossly under-powered CPU and subpar ethernet connection. The performance alone was reason to ditch it, even with the official WD software, forget using Plex with MKV files in many cases, transcoding was a bomb. The XPenology is just by far, all things considered, the best way to go, your own hardware, your own technical specs, greater support, or yes of course, a real Synology. Even Fox discontinued his work because of all the technical issues, hope just didn't translate into long term viable reality. DSM is definitely the way to go, on real or better hardware. 😎 What layout did you choose for your 920+ ?

usually not in case of storage units, beside psu and cpu you need cooling for hdd's having temp. controlled psu fan and case fan (later one controlled from bios) is preferable over a passive psu the cpu fan might be optional but it does not hurt that much to have a temp. controlled fan with decent (heat pipe?) heat sink and low noise fan (>80mm) (example might be https://noctua.at/en/nh-l9x65/) the case fan should be mounted opposite (to the psu) back end of the housing so you get it venting left an right back and air "in" needs to come from the area where the disks are, you may even need to plug/seal other openings made for venting to make sure air gets in covering the disk area if there is low noise there is low airflow too and that makes it more important to look for the disks you dont want them to have >50°C and dependig on the number of disks there will be noise from the disks anyway as flyride already wrote, its most important to have a working temp. controlled fan control in bios as synology uses custom hard- and software for fan control and it does not work on normal hardware, you would need drivers for your specific board (compile them by yourself) and also write code to plugin into synology's own control software, way to complicated for normal use often the temp. bios controlled fan support lacks in major brands like dell or hpe this as example for what you might need to look for https://www.gigabyte.com/mb/am4/cooling "Enhanced BIOS Interface" like with temp. profile for % fan speed (but even silent normal, full speed settings might be enough)

I had been interested in the same thing as well, and for some time, had been following this 1 and only thread I could ever find of someone actually taking on the challenge. In the end, he threw in the towel. He is just one guy, I would imagine with this core of his work being available online and the crew of brainiac's around here, people intimately familiar with the inner workings of the software, they could very likely bridge the gap. Having said that, though a fun and exciting challenge, I would say "WHY?!". Very likely the market share of these WD MyCloud EX product lines are pretty small and not worth the time and effort. I have an EX2, EX2 Ultra, but ultimately ditched them for their lackluster performance and application support, but got them for $99 so it was my initial stepping stone on my way to XPenology. I had tried sooooo many other things, RockStore, Windows Home Server, Open Media Vault, FreeNAS. Most of those other Linux based OS solutions are excessively over complicated, too many levels of annoying granularity that much be configured just to do the smallest of things. I'm an IT professional for over 20 years, and just found those solutions to be undesirable. Just setting up something simple like TimeMachine share, if you didn't know you needed to go into 10+ menu options/levels, only to have it NOT work - frustrating. Synology software, straight forward, clean, intuitive and "it just works". Still, in case you want to go to town on it, you might like this: https://community.wd.com/t/alternative-firmware-debian-jessie-synology-dsm6/156551 Cheers!

Buenas, Después de bastante tiempo que tiene este hilo, me vuelve a pasar lo mismo. Compré otro servidor igual (Microserver Gen8) e instalé ahí el DSM 6.20 y volví con el problema, con el WOL activado en BIOS y con la opción de Habilitar "WOL en LAN1" y "WOL en LAN2" activadas el servidor sólo levanta por WOL cuando al apagarlo, después apago la regleta de corriente donde está conectado, si no la apago no levanta. Pues lo que conseguido solucionar de nuevo, la otra vez debí dejarlo editado después de tantas pruebas y ni me di cuenta, pero el problema es que Xpenology no apaga correctamente las tarjetas al apagarse, he editado el fichero /etc/init/poweroff.conf y antes de la línea "halt -f $poweroff": ifconfig eth0 down ifconfig eth1 down quedando el fichero: description "Synology poweroff" start on runlevel 0 and stopped umount-root-fs and umount-root-ok stop on runlevel [!0] task console none script ## make sure runlevel is not 6 (reboot) run_level=`runlevel | awk '{ printf $2 }'` || true if [ "x${run_level}" = "x6" ]; then echo "incorrect runlevel, skip poweroff" exit 0 fi if [ "$INIT_HALT" = "" ]; then INIT_HALT=POWEROFF fi # If INIT_HALT=HALT don't poweroff. poweroff="-p" if [ "$INIT_HALT" = "HALT" ]; then poweroff="" fi echo PCE6 > /proc/acpi/wakeup ifconfig eth0 down ifconfig eth1 down halt -f $poweroff end script # vim:ft=upstart De esta manera consigo levantar el servidor cuando le mando apagar sin tener que cortar la corriente de la regleta para que funcione. Espero que os sirva a alguno.

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I believe one other disk is in degraded state as it has 1 bad sector. so thats probably why this triggered it.