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    Will this network Adapter work ? Intel Gigabit VT Quad Port Server Adapter

    in Hardware Modding

    Posted

    3 minutes ago, sbv3000 said:

    I'm using the same mobo in one of my systems, and have used quad port nics, but not in a link aggregation mode.

    My recollection of setting up link agg is that there is a unique driver/module that provides the bonding/teaming etc in the O/S, and or you need the kernel bonding support, creating a virtual nic, but I doubt that driver is included in XPE/DSM. You could have a look at how bonding is setup in ubuntu (close to XPE/DSM) 

    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBonding

    I also recall some threads where people have setup link agg, you might have a search for those.

     

    thanks! Thats the project for the next weekend! :)

    Will this network Adapter work ? Intel Gigabit VT Quad Port Server Adapter

    in Hardware Modding

    Posted · Edited by test4321

    1 hour ago, sbv3000 said:

    +100mb is pretty good, depending on the rest of your systems spec, there will probably be a bottleneck somewhere (usually the hdd speed). I'm guessing from your comment you are bonding/teaming/link aggregation, the bottleneck will apply regardless of that. Out of interest, what data do you need to move so fast? :0

     

    I'm using Static Link aggregation. I have 4 Drives rated above 113MB/s - at Avg. Sequential Write Speed 148MB/s

     

    I'm running on Asrock J3455 (http://asrock.com/mb/Intel/J3455-ITX/) - it should be able to do this.

     

    But so far I'm unable to reproduce it. There is a lack of articles on this topic on how to make these 4 port cards work and their full setups.

     

    Have you done anything like this?

     

    EDIT:

     

    I believe SMB Multichannel should be working here, but I havent found a guide on this.

    Extremely slow transfer speeds (USB / Network)

    in DSM 6.x

    Posted

    On 9/22/2017 at 3:46 AM, tinystarship said:

    so I might have figured it out. After the 3rd power outage yesterday, I was looking at my parity check again at 0.23% and thinking not again. I happened across an open tab in my browser talking about the format types (btrfs vs ext4) and how btrfs had a performance hit. I had selected that because it looked cooler on paper. I did some searching and saw some pretty scary stuff, so I blew away the partition and did it as ext4. This morning I am sitting at 20+% done with parity, but more importantly, I was able to copy over 18GB off my USB drive in ~10 min, where before it was estimating days.

     

    So I guess the problem was the filesystem during the parity check. too much to handle.

     

    get yourself a nice UPS, these days a low end one doesnt cost much more than $100-150

     

    And yeah parity check slows everything down. 

    ASRock J4205-ITX

    in DSM 6.x

    Posted · Edited by test4321

    On 11/16/2016 at 10:09 AM, Elpee said:

    Found nowhere. Where did you buy it?

     

    I found 3455 board on Newegg. It took a while to get it, but I think these days it should be easy to get one.

     

    Remember to buy the NON B version. It only has 2 SATA ports.

     

    https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157727&cm_re=j3455-_-13-157-727-_-Product

     

    ^^ I got this one. The prices went up by $25 btw. So look out maybe there are other boards you can buy. 

     

    I have my eye on(maybe next year):

    https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182973

     

     

    ASRock J4205-ITX

    in DSM 6.x

    Posted

    24 minutes ago, flinia said:

    I would also like to know if it works, some say only 2 cores are active at the time but another user that have similar board says it is working OK ? only the cpu is J3455 which is tha same unit as J4205 with lower clock.

     

    Anybody ?

     

     

     

    when SSHing into the machine you can see all 4 cores working. I think I posted a screenshot somewhere. The problem is that it's running at base speed (1.5-1.6mhz). Some people say you can lock it in at 2.4mhz, but for me it's not an issue.

     

     

     

    Asrock Q1900-ITX/Q1900DC-ITX

    in DSM 5.2 and earlier (Legacy)

    Posted

    On 7/16/2017 at 4:20 AM, zamma said:

    does having 4 nic ports work for increasing transfer bandwidth for a single connection (Link bonding?)  I was thinking of purchasing a Synology Nas model with 4 Nic ports but theoretical gigabit speed is saturated over 1 port so why have 4 unless you have multiple users accessing simultaneously? 

     

    This project has not worked out so far. I wanted to connect 4 ports WIN10 to 4 ports on NAS using NIC teaming. 

     

    Mircosoft has disabled NIC teaming in latest builds and only allows it on Server builds.

     

    Very dissapointed. Cannot reach more than 113mbit/s.

     

    Asrock Q1900-ITX/Q1900DC-ITX

    in DSM 5.2 and earlier (Legacy)

    Posted · Edited by test4321

    13 hours ago, zamma said:

    does having 4 nic ports work for increasing transfer bandwidth for a single connection (Link bonding?)  I was thinking of purchasing a Synology Nas model with 4 Nic ports but theoretical gigabit speed is saturated over 1 port so why have 4 unless you have multiple users accessing simultaneously? 

     

    I'll be testing the speeds only in the end of August unfortunately, the 4 NIC Intel card for my desktop is coming from China :| 

    But the card is working and I can set each of the links to specific Docker apps I setup. 

     

    Also I need to play around with my new switch TL-SG1024DE that can do link aggregation.

     

    Why have 4 NICS? Because I have a desktop that I would like to back up - and backing up 3TB of data (half of which is SSD drives) could take a while. I'd like to speed up that process.

     

    PS: 1 HDD saturates 1 LAN port easily - transfer speeds on current HDDs(even platter ones) are 150-200mb / second

     

    Asrock Q1900-ITX/Q1900DC-ITX

    in DSM 5.2 and earlier (Legacy)

    Posted

    14 hours ago, test4321 said:

     

     

     

    I have J3455 with PCI-E 1X port, which NIC do you guys suggest buying for it?

     

    I dont want to mess with drivers too much.

     

    I see only 1 port versions from Intel for 1X PCI-E:

     

    https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833106036&cm_re=Intel_network_adapter_PCI-Express_1-_-33-106-036-_-Product

     

    but 1 port is not enough.

     

    Saw this but dont know if it's supported:

    https://www.amazon.com/Syba-SD-PEX24009-Gigabit-Network-Black/dp/B01HH6WETO

     

    Looks like it's based on Realtek drivers.

     

    Anybody try to install Syba NICs?

     

    Thanks!

     

     

    Just tried it out the SYBA 4 port PCI-E 1X is working!

     

    swwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

     

     

    Asrock Q1900-ITX/Q1900DC-ITX

    in DSM 5.2 and earlier (Legacy)

    Posted

    I have J3455 with PCI-E 1X port, which NIC do you guys suggest buying for it?

     

    I dont want to mess with drivers too much.

     

    I see only 1 port versions from Intel for 1X PCI-E:

     

    https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833106036&cm_re=Intel_network_adapter_PCI-Express_1-_-33-106-036-_-Product

     

    but 1 port is not enough.

     

    Saw this but dont know if it's supported:

    https://www.amazon.com/Syba-SD-PEX24009-Gigabit-Network-Black/dp/B01HH6WETO

     

    Looks like it's based on Realtek drivers.

     

    Anybody try to install Syba NICs?

     

    Thanks!

     

    Asrock Q1900-ITX/Q1900DC-ITX

    in DSM 5.2 and earlier (Legacy)

    Posted

    Hey ya'll, I'm interested in adding some security cameras into my place talking to my Xpenology install on a Q1900, could anyone suggest some affordable options which are compatible and easy to deploy (I'm guessing they'd be poe?)

    it really depends on your needs.

     

    I'm running:

     

    TV-IP862IC

    WVC210

     

    Both of these are running smooth.

     

    Web cameras are still super expensive unless you want just basic functionality. I researched it for weeks and TP-Link one was my choice for under $200. The only crappy part about it is that it has shitty movement - if you click to move it it will swing instead of making a small movement.

     

    Otherwise it works fine.

     

    WVC210 is just wayy too old, but thats what I had available for $0.

     

    I dont know about Chinese cameras - they are too sketchy for me personally. There are tons under 100$, but I dont believe any of them are officially supported by Synology.

     

    Anything official(dlink and co) under $100 is too basic and definitely has a lot of drawbacks.

    DSM 6.1.x Loader

    in Loaders

    Posted

    Did somebody already try Jun's Loader / DSM 6.0.2 on the new Apollo Lake boards (J3455/J4205)? Several times I've been reading "it should work" in this discussion, but it seems to me nobody actually tried? A few pages back somebody mentioned it’s not booting and I’ve been reading about problems using Ubuntu on Apollo Lake boards. Just want to have a confirmation before making a mistake in buying, I prefer to have a WORKING J3710 board over a black screen Apollo Lake :smile:

     

    Thanks!

    J3455 works well...no problems. If you buy it, UPDATE BIOS right away. 1.2 version is stable. 1.0 was s*** and wasnt working at all.

    Asrock Q1900-ITX/Q1900DC-ITX

    in DSM 5.2 and earlier (Legacy)

    Posted

    I'm going to make new NAS and i'm choosing the Mainboard:

    Asrock J3455-ITX for 97Eur

    Asrock Q1900-ITX for 89Eur

     

    Wich do you suggest with compatibility and performance?

    I'm going to have 2 wd RED 3TB for Photo Safe Backup and one more old 250GB for movies ecc to use with plex.

    It looks from the forum that the j3455 works without supporting cpu burst so at 1.5Ghz isn't it?

    I see that DS416play have N3060 and sinology says "Dual Core 1.6 burst up to 2.48 GHz" so looks that this model supports CPU Burst. It will be interestig knows if is possible to port its DSM too, for using these new Asrock MB.

    From what I understand Q1900 has been worked on the forum for a while so you might get more support out of it.

     

    Honestly I dont know - depends on your needs. J3455 works good for what I'm using it for - plex, BT, small back-ups.

     

    CPU rarely goes up to 90%, I just got 8GB 1600mhz ram for it too so its smooooooth as butter. My plans to play around with Asterisk.

     

     

    About the speed, I need to ssh into machine and see CPU stats. I'll let you know whats up.

    RAID Controllers

    in Hardware Modding

    Posted

    Marvel chipsets generally work ok - I've use the syba 4 port one which is an iocrest equivalent ok

    Not sure about the 2 port model - however I have ASmedia onboard sata motherboard and that works ok with xpe

    I'm using 5.2 but no reason to think 6.0 wont work

    best to get the 'non-raid' version of any add on - or make sure you can set the controller bios to jbod etc

     

    Thanks!

    Asrock Q1900-ITX/Q1900DC-ITX

    in DSM 5.2 and earlier (Legacy)

    Posted

    Just got a ASRock J3455-ITX from Newegg for 129:

     

    https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.a ... -_-text-_-

     

    I'll update you guys on the build and how it's working.

     

    I've the Q1900DC-ITX ... just curious whether the J3455 has a reasonable or negligible benefit over the J1900.

     

    hmmm...looking at Intel page, I would say negligible. I wouldnt upgrade from J1900

     

    I just got one for myself because my 212j was so slow on 6.0 that i dont even turn it on. It takes at least 10 minutes to start it.

     

    CPU

    one CPU runs at 1.5 and another at 2.0

     

    RAM and Video

    The only difference I see is in RAM and Video Card (from what I understand video card is not used in transcoding...i'm not sure).

     

    You can install 1866mhz ram that can help with speed.

     

    SATA2 Ports

    Also Q1900DC-ITX has 2xSATA3 and 2xSATA2 ports where J3455 has 4xSATA3 ports. I dont think you will saturate those SATA2 speeds, but who knows if you want to add SSD drives, that could be an issue.

     

    Asrock J4205

     

    i dont think i would go for J4205. Its much more expensive and the only difference is baseclock and a little bit better video card.

    Asrock Q1900-ITX/Q1900DC-ITX

    in DSM 5.2 and earlier (Legacy)

    Posted · Edited by Guest

    Just got a ASRock J3455-ITX from Newegg for 129:

     

    https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.a ... -_-text-_-

     

    I'll update you guys on the build and how it's working.

     

    could you make a test with vmware esxi on this board?

    I will need to install it on my other hard drive. I'll update you when I try it out.

     

    Right now I'm running without any problems on baremetal. I did not test all areas of the OS.

     

    Right out of the box the motherboard is buggy and you need to upgrade to the latest bios (1.20 at the moment).

     

    I'm running:

     

    old 1tb drive

    Crucial 2x2 GB of RAM 1333Mhz

     

    I tried Ubuntu 14.4 usb stick and it would start loading but would get stuck. I didnt want to mess with it much.

     

    As far as performance - I have tried transcoding 1080p and it runs at 30-40% load. Offline transcoding was taking up about 75-85% of cpu. You might get better results if you use 1866mhz RAM

     

    It runs very cool to touch. I dont notice any heat coming from heatsink. The heat meter in the GUI - I dont believe it works as it's stuck at 40 degrees. Hard drive heat meter works.

     

    Fan control is only on "Cool". There are no other options. I'll try changing my fan to CPU fan to see if there is a difference.

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