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So, I've been testing these well known old cards, and tried them on both ancient machines, and new machines alike. These cards are very reliable work horses. I tried setting up a 4 drive RAID10 with a few of these cards, for a total of 12 drives (3x4) and I was able to swap the HDD around the different ports, and it did not affect XPE-DSM 5.2 either XPE-DSM or the SATA controller keeps good track of the drive, instead of the port number. There was a few thread in the forum regarding the LSI 9211 losing the drive port numbering, causing RAID volumes to become crashed due the missing drive, even when the drive was actually there. So, that's all just leaving my feedback about this model, it works well, your HDD can be in any port, and it doesn't crash the RAID. Also, these old beauties can handle 3TB and 4TB drives just fine.

It should not be booting from Hard Disk, it should be booting from USB or CDROM (ISO if virtual) set your VM to boot from CDROM all the time, and keep the XPEnology iso in there for every reboot I've installed it on both VirtualBox, and VMware, so I know it works on both platform. I've not used that KVM virtual machine, but it looks very similar to Virtual Box

yup, exactly the same they are doing with the Security Camera licenses to use the Synology Camera software which I'm quite happy about, just the price itself is a bit too expensive IMO, as they bill you per camera.

i recall I answered this already on another thread asking the same question. and it was hands down Yes across board. After all I do own several legit Synology boxes, the DSM OS is what keeps me going back to them. but the overwhelming cost of their Larger hardware, it just ridiculously priced. XPE should not become commercial else Synology will have ground to sue. as long as XPE remains a fan base open source thing we'll be fine. Now if Synology decides to release just DSM for every available hardware, I'll most definitely buy it, but I'll pay no more than $100 per machine, considering a Windows OS is aprox $150 per machine. by the way FreeNAS became commercial, and NAS4Free (the original FreeNAS) remains open source, but they had to rewrite from the grounds up the code, to avoid law suit issues. FreeNAS only focuses on high end machines, kind of like what Synology does, but I play and support low end machines, like old used abandoned hardware offices discard after they upgrade to a faster desktop, you find those free everywhere, these machines are still perfectly good as a file server. So, that being said. I think the current XPEnology is doing great, I wish to learn more on compiling kernels and KO modules for hardware that are still unsupported, and I'm trying to revive the x86 version of the project, as there are still tons of those hardware around.

yup. I use both the Real deal for work and important stuff, and the Custom DIYnology for home play hobby use, something to keep myself busy while getting the great sastifaction it works better than the real deal for a fraction of the cost, but at the cost of the possibility of never getting another upgrade, if they don't release the stuff we need to make the next DSM build

very interesting, thanks for sharing, did not even know that could happen. i don'tuse Plex, but is good to know if I ever install Plex into DSM

if you have spare hard drives, you can pull out your existing drives (make sure to write down which HDD number goes to which port) then replace with 2 HDD to re-install XPEnology if everything works fine after installing to the 2 temp HDD then you can clone the DSM OS partition from temp HDD to replace the DSM OS partition on the HDD you pulled out. I did that before on legit Synology boxes to do data recovery after HDD failure corrupted the DSM OS partition requiring a re-install of the .PAT file. Another method is to try this viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13288 it's for people that accidentally upgraded to 6.0, but it works also for people wanting to go back / downgraded to older versions.

That brings up a good point, since PCI 32bit maxes out at 133 MByte/s It'll be best not to mix the 4 drives on the PCI controller, with the 4~6 drives from the onBoard SATA controller. Keep them as 2 separate Volumes, and use drive grouping to keep them as 2 separate set of drives.

Ben, what you are describing is the synoinfo.config losing the changes, it has nothing to do with the problem being a 12 drives limitation. How are you editing and saving the changes to synoinfo.config, when the machine is running? or when it's powered off ? I edit it on the USB drive, on another machine linux/windows then I bring it back to the server, and it remains unchanged unless I make new changes to it.

XPEnoboot 5.2-5644.5 with on board LSI RAID 300 passthrough in ESXi 6.0 (that means DSM 5.2 is accessing the SATA controller hardware directly) CPU = Xeon E5-2420 2.20 Ghz (12 cores) Socket = LGA 1356 Motherboard = Lenovo TD340 Chipset = intel C606 RAM = 192 GB DDR3 SATA controller = on board Intel C606 + on board LSI RAID 300 + LSI 9240-8i Network = on board Intel 82574L + intel I340-T4 adapter RAID = 10 HDD = (8x) Seagate ST3000DM001 + (8x) Seagate ST2000LM007 Video = on board Aspeed AST2300 Case Add-on = (2x) ICY DOCK MB324SP-B PSU = Redundant Dual 800watt

Coming Soon... (waiting for controller and case to arrive) XPEnoboot 5.2-5644.5 CPU = Core i3-6100 3.7 Ghz Motherboard = ASUS P10S WS Chipset = Intel C236 (skylake) RAM = 32 GB DDR4 SATA controller = on board Intel C236 + (2x) Supermicro AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 Network = on board Intel I210 RAID = 10 HDD = (24x) Seagate ST3000DM001 Video = on board intel from CPU Case = NORCO RPC-4224 PSU = Rosewill RBR1000-MS 1000watt

XPEnoboot 5.2-5644.5 CPU = i5-2500 3.30GHz Motherboard = ASUS P8H67-M PRO Chipset = Intel H67(B3) RAM = 16 GB DDR3 SATA controller = on board Intel H67(B3) Network = on board Realtek 8111E RAID = 10 HDD = (4x) Seagate ST3000DM001 Video = on board intel from CPU Case Add-on = (2x) ICY DOCK MB973SP-2B + (2x) iStarUSA BPN-2535DE-SA PSU = OCZ 600watt

XPEnoboot 5.2-5644.5 CPU = Intel Pentium D 2.80GHz, 2 cores Chipset = Intel 945G Express / Intel ICH7R Motherboard = D945GNT RAM = 4 GB DDR2 SATA controller = on board Intel 82801GR ICH7R + (4x) Promise SATA300 TX4 Network = on board Intel PRO/100 + Intel Ethernet Server Adapter I340-T4 RAID = 10 HDD = (4x) Seagate ST3000DM001 Video = on board Intel 945G Case Add-on = (2x) ICY DOCK MB975SP-B + (2x) iStarUSA BPN-2535DE-SA PSU = EVGA 600watt

XPEnoboot 5.2-5644.5 CPU = AMD Phenom II X3 740 3.0Ghz (3 cores) Chipset = AMD 785G/SB710 Motherboard = ASUS M4A785TD-M EVO RAM = 4 GB DDR3 SATA controller = on board SB710 Chipset + (2x) Promise SATA300 TX4 Network = on board RTL8112L RAID = 10 HDD = (4x) Seagate ST2000DL003 Video = on board ATI Radeon HD 4200 Case Add-on = (2x) ICY DOCK MB975SP-B + (2x) iStarUSA BPN-2535DE-SA

that motherboard is using intel skylake, we know it works, several people already used other brands with the intel skylake chipset. I myself just recently ordered a new ASUS motherboard also with intel skylake, and i'm pairing it with a Core i3-6100 the CPU you listed E3-1220 is Sockets LGA1155 but the motherboard is LGA1151 it's not going to work, find a CPU that is for LGA1151, or find a motherboard for LGA1155 CPU

I'm aware of this version as well, I have it running in some old but not that old machines, but it doesn't work for really older machines. That's why I'm looking for version 4.x as it works in old stuff like Pentium 3 and Pentium 2

That's a typical canned response from businesses trying to get you off their tail. Now based on that, if I'm reading properly in between the lines it sounds something like: "Our Devs are busy writing the code from the grounds up avoiding the use of any open source codes, when they are done with the new closed code OS, we will release whatever bits and pieces of code that would have no use at all for the community, so you can stop duplicating our work, and any further reverse engineering of DSM will be met with our legal team." until that day happens, I'll stick with DSM for any home made file server in the very worse case scenario, migrate back to FreeBSD, Ubuntu , Fedora, Nas4Free, FreeNAS, etc

So, I was doing some comparison digging at Synology site, even their top of the line Synology boxes RS18016xs+ , RS3614xs+ , RC18015xs+ , only uses a Xeon E3-1230 which is comparable to a Core i5 4670 In that case I should be just fine with an older Core i5-2500 with 32GB RAM, which brings it at par with a Synology box max RAM upgraded, and according to Synology website it can handle a maximum of 180 Drive bays 1440TB of raw storage. That's like opening a data center So, based on that I guess even an Core i3 should be more than enough for a Hobby fan site for games and files.

Well 1000 concurrent user that will definitely be a VERY HIGH traffic server, not sure it'll ever reach that limit I was thinking more along the lines of 500 users to be High and aprox 200~300 to be Medium anything less than 100 concurrent users I consider it Light. For example my Gaming Guild is roughly 2000~3000 players, but in reality only a fraction of it like 10% ever goes to the forum/wiki/website so that in addition to some random traffic for XPE mirror files upload download, I doubt it'll go beyond 300 concurrent users. Is a Fiber connection 50 Mbps down / 15 Mbps up, is decent enough for most stuff, and I'll throttle the speed for file transfers so it doesn't use up all the bandwidth. Considering there are still ISP hosting websites with T1 connections, and T3 are still the average normal for most, 15 Mbps falls into the middle like a poor's man T2 Bandwidth aside, I'm more concerned about Processing power to quickly handle the Web / DB and Files queries. If the site ever gets busy enough to really have 500+ concurrent users, I'll rather migrate the whole thing into a real hosted server, which I had for a while, but then I cancelled it since the volume was not there to merit the monthly expense of a hosted server.

The best way to find out if a HDD is really an "Advance Format Drive" is by checking online the model number and spec from the manufacture websites. I'm not expert but coming from personal experience, Linux systems (DSM) do not have problem with the 4K "Advance Format Drive" Besides once the HDD becomes parts of the RAID, all the formatting goes out the window, as the RAID and format structure will be maintained by the mdadm, so the underlying physical cluster size no longer matters. It only matters most when you try to use it for FAT32 or NTFS partitions for Windows, otherwise under linux and EXT4 partition just blankets over whatever it's underneath.

Hey guys... Does anyone still have a copy of the boot needed for DSM 4.2 or 4.3 32bit? I can find the .pat files, but all the download links in the old threads about DSM 4.x are all dead. Does anyone still have a copy of the NanoBoot, XpeBoot or whatever boot needed for DSM 4.x ?

make sure you select Manual install, and select the 5.2-5644 pat file from this forum do not let DSM download the file automatically from Synology

I'm planning to host my own Webserver, Forum, blog and Wiki using DSM 5.2 (XPEnology)... and that means Maria DB will be needed for the Forum and Wiki portion. Expecting medium to high traffic. Would an i3 (2 cores / 4 thread) with 32 GB RAM be enough to run all of the above? or do I need something more beefy like an i5 or an i7 quad cores (1150) ? It'll be a hobby server to mirror XPEnology, wiki, and game stuff. For my Real Production Work stuff I'm running off a Synology 1815+ and that thing only has an Atom C2538 (quad core) inside and stock 2GB RAM. Wiki, mail server, webmail, website, forum, Maria DB, and other stuff. The only difference the Production Server is a low traffic server for Intranet and limited external clients.

Intel Pentium E2140 = LGA775 yup, it should run without any problem MSI 945PL NEO https://ca.msi.com/Motherboard/945PL_Ne ... cification chipset, memory, all spec looks good

I was thinking the same thing as well, and I know that from experience, there are a lot of network timing sensitive applications that does not play well, when they are run inside VMs. I'll try later today to slap in 2 bare bones XPEnology machine and see if High Availability works fine in physical hardware, as that was part of the reason I'm spending so much time investing into this project Just ordered a Norco 24 hot swap bay box, and the 3x Supermicro controllers you recommended, i3 6100 skyline, a Workstation motherboard, 1000w PSU, and 32GB DDR4 RAM (not that it needs it, but is good to have extras for the future), and I already have 8x 3TB HDD from some older Linux setup I'm planning to decommission if this XPEnology works well 24/7/365 with High Availability. I currently have a cron job running a Rsync script in Ubuntu/Fedora for "HA", but if XPEnology works, I'll rather have XPEnology do all the work. If the new system works well, I was planning to turn the 2 old Linux boxes into XPEnology boxes as well and run HA on all 3 machines.