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The specsheet is very vague... http://www.supermicro.com/products/moth ... -TLN2F.cfm CPU is fine Chiptset is so vague "System on Chip" doesn't say actual chipset brand and model, by educated guess, it "should" be intel Broadwell Network 1 Realtek RTL8201N PHY, this might not work, it's not listed in the hardware supported list. There is no mention of the 10Gbps, seems like a sold separately add-on, not included with the motherboard.

2 part answer for your 2 part question. Yes, you can install XPE onto a compatible set of hardware and everything will work just fine. It'll be exactly like this https://www.synology.com/en-global/know ... _and_later Note: Please make a full backup of your data before you try it. For example if ryou DS213j is running DSM 6.0 and you migrate back to XPE 5.2 you might encounter some errors. It'll still work but it gets more complicated, there's a sticky about how to reverse DSM 6.0 back to DSM 5.2 Now, part 2 of your question/answer re: Supermicro X10SDV-4C-TLN2F I don't have personal experience with that board, so I can not comment on that. However if the Chipsets on that board are compatible with the supported hardware listed on the sticky, then you "should" be fine viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10973

First make a backup of your current data. Upgrading from 5.0 to 5.2 is fairly straight forward. create your XPEboot disk from that link boot up the old 5.0 machine with the 5.2 XPEboot then during the XPE boot secreen select install/upgrade option then from the browser login, and you will be prompted to "migrate" follow the instructions and use the 5.2 pat file from the link the rest is simply to follow and complete the migration/installation wizard.

So, while playing around with different configurations, and different machine builds. I noticed it's quite fool proof, if you have previously designated a set of 2 or 4 or # combination number of disk into a disk group. Then you are free to basically move the same group of disk from computer to computer, or even real DSM Synology boxes, and it won't complain at all, even if you mix the order, and not sequential. When you plug it back into another machine, it will boot up just fine as if nothing ever happened. this is great for when you want to migrate the same HDD from one machine to another machine. I've tried this before without create a Disk Group, and the result is not quite the same, if the order changed from 1234, to 1342 disk orders, then it will complain the RAID was crashed or something like that. So, it's highly recommended to work with Disk Groups, then create a volume inside the disk group for headache free transitions from machine to machine, and it wont matter which SATA/SAS controller it's plugged into, as it will know that disk, belongs to that Disk Group.

if you are in a private network, you'll always be secure, unless you have an open WiFi or unless you are running it as a Production environment hosting websites in the Open internet. the latest version here is DSM 5.2 5644 update 5, it is stickied here viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5026

AFAIK 8 bay is the highest for the nice little Cube versions http://www.u-nas.com/product/nsc800.html anything larger they turn into those big ass server trays, but that's a full computer, they don't sell just the chassis. Here's a the 12 bay http://www.u-nas.com/product/ns1200_ultra.html That's why I went with a Norco case for a full build RPC-4224 http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6811219038 http://www.norcotek.com/product/rpc-4224/ It was actually another guy in the forum that mentioned it first, It came in quite handy as I was looking for a new build to replace my old failing servers

I agree on the baremetal suggestion for XPEnology however for virtualisation.... I only trust VMware, but that will require another baremetal machine. experience with the Virtual boxes ran from inside DSM, are not very good, performance wise. but if you are running just command line Virtual Boxes for stuff like an apache/LAMP server or things that requires no graphical interface, then it should be fine.

set the XPEnology server to run DHCP instead of static IP, if you suspect it's an IP or DNS issue. network LAG, are usually caused by heavy traffic, or packets loss, or packets collision (noise) quick way to troubleshoot the latter ones, just unplug your switch for a few sec, then turn it back on. if it's heavy traffic, make sure you have no Torrents like software running without your knowledge. always run some sort of network monitor to check bandwidth traffic from LAN/WAN and from LAN to each machine, so you can figure out which machine is having the busiest connections / transfers

with Real Synology boxes, I recall I had to upgrade in stages. 4.2 to 4.3 then from 4.3 to maybe 5.0 and then from 5.0 to 5.2 jumping directly from 4.2 to 5.2 might not be such a great idea. lets see what the others have to said regarding this.

Yeah, the unas case rocks UNAS case it's a good for a new build, if you don't already have spare stuff laying around. The only bad thing about the UNAS case is the size limitation to only small motherboards, it's a little too compact for my taste. I deal with a lot of larger motherboards ATX, mATX, EATX

Mirror build, only the case is slightly different, it was originally an AOPEN case. Made new 120mm hole on the side for a intake fan Added 120mm dust filter + grill

XPE DSM 5.2 9 Drives (missing drive 4 is due eSATA, bad motherboard design ) Recycled case from an old Pentium machine, painted it flat / matte black (never again choosing this color type, I'll stick with glossy black, glossy is more dust prof) Made new 120mm hole on the side for a intake fan Added 120 dust filter + grill PSU: EVGA 600W Motherboard: ASUS M4A785TD-M EVO CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 RAM: 4 GB Controller: Promise SATA300 TX4 Trayless HDD Hot Swap Cage: ICY DOCK FlexCage MB975SP-B Trayless HDD Hot Swap Cage: iStarUSA BPN-2535DE-SA working in action

yup!, even I you use a AMD 64 CPU, it still shows as an Intel Core 3

You can always downgrade back to Base XPEnoboot 5.2-5644.5 do the migration then either stay on Base XPEnoboot 5.2-5644.5, or you can do inline-upgrade back to Update 8 in the new machine I'm still running Base XPEnoboot 5.2-5644.5, I don't see the need for the newer upgrades.

That's a lot of questions wrapped together, lets untangle this mess. CPU upgrade is not an issue. Linux doesn't really care what CPU you use as long as it is supported. SHR... I'll suggest good old RAID10 or RAID6, SHR can do some funny things when the RAID crashes, and it's not pretty. Migrating from One Baremetal, to another Baremetal is straight forward, just make sure you keep the Drives in the same Slots Numbers in DSM https://www.synology.com/en-global/know ... _and_later Same thing applies from Baremetal to Virtual... but there's a higher degree of difficulty in this type of migration. As you will need a RAID/SAS/SATA controller pass-through , basically let Virtual Machine take full control of the RAID/SATA controller, so it works with the hardware directly, as in NOT virtual, it'll become a Hybrid virtual setup, the DSM OS will run in VMware, but the HDDs are written to directly on hardware. There are many examples here in the forum, if you search a bit.

Bitlocker is the Microsoft encryption to hard drive, just like PGP from Symantec, or similar encryption from FirstPoint. Situations where the Bitlocker is used, You'll first want to De-Encrypt the data before making any repairs, you can't make repairs while data are encrypted.

That's the part I've no problem with, I always have plenty of spare parts to swap around. People gets rid of their old PCs for new PCs, and I recycle them all for other causes, so spare parts are abundant. Turning them into NAS devices is one of the better option for slower machines, machines that are a little faster, I load them up with Edubuntu (Ubuntu for education) and donate them to schools for little kids.

yup, Exactly as Arcao said. it's a lot cleaner (easier) to setup PPTP and OpenVPN since they are only 1 port, but L2TP needs several ports, it's rather "dirty" but as long as you have all the ports forwarded properly, then it should work.

depends if... Chipset: ASMedia ASM1062 + 2x JMicron JMB575 ...is supported by Xpenology. If it uses SATA port multiplication, then it almost certainly won't work. Damm... it was cheap for 10 SATA ports there were a few other threads in the forum that confirmed port multiplication is not support in XPEnology, most models will not work. it will only see the original 4 ports, the rest will be ignored, if using multiplicators. try this one which I'm using http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6816101792

The N3150M-E is nice choice if you install an extra 8 port SATA controller to it but I've always been skeptical of the SoC motherboards, basically if the CPU dies, or the motherboard dies, for whatever reason, then you'll have to replace the whole thing again. that's why I always got with regular motherboard, then pair it up with a low power consumption CPU like Celeron or i3 One thing to keep in mind, SOME motherboards doesn't like it when you install SATA/SAS cards in the video card PCIEx16 slot, but otherwise works fine on other PCIE slots, since that motherboard only has 1 PCIEx16 slot, it'll be a luck of the draw to see if it accepts SAS/SATA controller on it.

VPN works, both PPTP and Open VPN, I use it on a daily basis. This message was reply to you via VPN. Make sure you have properly configure the User privilege to the user allowed to connect. Make sure ports forwarding are setup properly Use Static IP on the receiving machine you want to remote into

if you are using IE, try with Firefox, Opera, or Chrome. it's more than likely the IE cache playing tricks on you, by default IE never updates the cache properly. if all the other browsers have the same problem, then you'll probably need to re-install DSM 5.2 once again.

if you are open to the idea of ATX, then can suggest this one, as I'm using exactly that https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P10S-WS/ power consumption is not so much on the motherboard but rather the CPU + HDD your 500w PSU will not be pulling 500w every second, it'll only use as much as needed a typical CPU is 55w + 8 HDDs (7w x 8) 56w even if you include RAM and whatever the MB actually uses, it won't be more than 150w average

if you are looking for 8 ports or 8 HDDs, then even the build-in on board SATA from most mini-ITX motherboards will suffice. the RAID is not done at the hardware level (RAID card), it's done by DSM at the software level, that's why even the on board SATA will work without problem. Any current Intel based mini- ITX boards are safe, just look for one with 8 SATA ports, most are only 6 SATA ports.

interesting revelation. Personally I stick to known to work old school RAID types, I never trusted this Hybrid RAID business introduced by Synology