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That! is exactly why many of us here Fan of Synology are so excited about this Open Source project. If Synology didn't charge so much over head over their hardware, I'll rather buy the real thing. I have several boxes from Synology, but they all get outdated very quickly. DS207+ DS210 DS211 DS410 and after that I started building my own Linux Servers, Fedora / Ubuntu / FreeNAS... but still nothing compared to the amazing Synology OS. So it was a God Sent when this project became stable after version 4.x DSM 5 and DSM 6 on the 210 / 211 / 410 runs sooooo sloooooow. yet on any machine from AMD Athlon 64 series, P4 or Duo Core, DSM 5 runs amazingly fast even with only 2 GB RAM if you have a large case, like the Norco 24, or BlazePod, or a regular old Full Tower, you can fit sooooooo many 3.5 hard drives into them. Any hardware combined case, controllers, ram, cables, etc, excluding HDD cost of course, will always end up totalling less than any Synology Disk Station, and it will cost way way less than any of the Synology Processional RS / XS series.

I agree this is most likely the issue here. most older controllers can't read beyond 2TB for example then even the not so old PCI-SATA2 controllers some maxes out at 3TB or 4 TB the 6TB and 8TB drives are fairly "new" you'll probably need a newer PCI-e-SATA3 controller with newest firmware to read them properly. Also! very important, now there are these new HDD called ARCHIVES! drive from Seagate, and WD has similar ones, that they don't work like normal HDDs, if you purchased these Archive version of HDDs, they are not going to work well with any known OS. Those drivers were developed for Data Centers and Programmers to write directly to the cluster location. Not something our Average Win OS, Linux OS do as of yet.

Have you guys considered using SATA backplane, basically HDD cages with build in backplane like the ICY DOCK or Rosewill or ... too many brands to name. I find those LSI cards works as expected if they are attached to a backplane, it is after all very odd to use LSI cards SFF straight to SATA HDDs, most Servers from Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc... they will always come with a backplane and hotswap, and all of them are usually using some re-branded LSI using their own Dell / Lenovo / HP firmware.

the screenshoot is too small to see anything useful. Did you add at least 2 or more virtual disk for the RAID to be created? you need to create a volume with 2 or more disk, before you see volume1

ok, first thing first. on the very first boot, even if you don't have a monitor attached, it should go all the way to the login screen, in a fast machine, that is approximately 1 min / 60 sec max the only reason to have a monitor during installation is simply to keep an eye on any unexpected error that prevents the Bootloader from booting all the way to the login screen. so Assuming there was no problem with any hardware during boot up, wait for 30 sec to 60 sec, then use the Synology Assistant to find the machine you just booted from the USB stick. after that, all is done from the Web interface. I've done many XPEnology installs already, there's no need to use a monitor if all the hardware are compatible. There is no much to edit in your USB, unless you got a built that got more than 12 HDDs, or if you wanted to change the serial number which you can do anyways from another machine if it's just the serial number the 12+ drive thing can be done from the SSH comand line after you get the system up and running.

Setup a custom DDNS. Simple, fast and free. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk indeed, I use Dynu.com it's 100% free, no nag, no advertisements. Unlike no-ip or dyndns those 2 started as free then they became commercial, and make it hell to use their DDNS in a free basis instruction to set DDNS for Dynu in Synology https://www.dynu.com/DynamicDNS/IPUpdat ... ynologyNAS

There are several things mixed here.... Copy and paste to and from Windows machine to Synology shares, if you can do it locally, you should be able to do it remotely as well. Since you mentioned VPN, which VPN are you using? and which Server is providing the VPN service? Did you configure the VPN client settings properly to get DNS and Gateway from the server? You can always try to use the IP address of the Synology server to access the files, if the DNS is not working. for HTTPS to work, make sure port 443 is not taken over by another service from your rotuer / firewall / or Synology itself, or in some cases by your Security Cameras (that happened to me)

Hell yeah, if Synology is smart and offer full support for 3rd party hardware (which is what they do not want to do) and offer the Synology as a NAS OS to be licensed by End Users, I'll be more than happy to buy it from them, just like many of us do with their Camera Licenses.

From experience it's better to let XPEnology handle the RAID, so go for the LSI 9211-8i cards, they are relatively short, these cards are basically full pass through SATA, or also known as Fake RAID cards Similar size to a good Quad port intel i340-t4 NIC card.

These are great cameras for the money even in the UK, but the exposed cabling is not suitable for my installation. Which is going to be low level sofit boards on a garage so will be using foscams later on for high level installation. These are so hard to find in stock, almost everywhere I find them online, are out of stock. I am too shopping for outdoor cameras, specially these that can be POE, just 1 wire and done. Does anyone know how to insulate the RJ45 ports so rain doesn't get into it? The camera itself is weatherproof, but I'm not quite sure the RJ45 port is waterproof, even when the cable is attached.

There's another topic here this guy is building a 24 bay box viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15038 using a Norco server case, I'm actually now somewhat eager to pick up one of those and try it myself, but I don't like the idea of the trays. Currently I'm using the hot swap cages from ICY DOCKs, i prefer those since they are tool less and tray less, just insert / eject the drive, no need to screws or brackets. Regarding the SATA / SAS calculations, I'm pretty sure all SATA ports detected by XPEnology will be considered as together, regardless if: 8 ports was from a LSI 9211-8i + 4 ports from Promise SATA300 TX4 + 6 ports on board motherboard SATA + 2 ports more on board motherboard SATA + 8 more ports from LSI 9240-8i Total = 28 SATA / SAS ports see what I mean? The only time this calculation gets skewed is when you have eSATA ports, and a lot of USB ports, that's when you use the calculation method shown in NeoID video. Most motherboards have approximately 6 to 8 USB ports, if you plan to use them all, else you can as shown in NeoID video disable most of them, and only keep 1 or 2 active for the XPEnology to boot from the USB drive.

The delay is not too surprising. I also help out over at XDA Developers doing Android Hacking and stuff for Android phones ROM / firmwares. It's the same issue with every new release of any major brand, like Samsung, or HTC, etc... They will drag it as long as possible to not release the source code, until their latest version of Android is well distributed (sold) among their indented geographic locations. By the time they are in the works for the next version, is when they release the sources for the previous version. I'm quite sure Synology doesn't like us "Hackers" pocking at their fruits of labour. But heck, If we did not purchase their original products, we wouldn't even be fan of their stuff. Personally I own a few Synology boxes, great stuff, the oldest one i have is from way back in 2007 (DS207), the over the years I've picked up a few of the 4 bays model, 5 bays, etc... But as many people here, I simply have waaaaaaay too much old PC cases and motherboards, expansions cards, etc... collecting dust in the basement, so might as well make use of them and build my own XPEnology box. Synology is like Apple, they just have a very nicely and heavily customized FreeBSD under the hood. The team at Synology they also started as fans building a linux based easy to use web interface NAS storage, now they grew too big, and is trying to forget the open source community that helped them grow and become what they are now in days. I'm sure if we really wanted to we can make our own dedicated NAS OS, something like FreeNAS but with the excellent plug in support and GUI like XPEnology for the longest time I've been running full blown version of linux Fedora + Webmin / Ubuntu + Webmin to maximize hardware support, but as many of you know, when running a full blown linux machine as a file server is just too heavy for some older machines, XPEnology and FreeNAS do much better sometimes, it's more forgiving as the Memory + CPU footprint is less than a full blown linux box, but then the trade off is that not all hardware are supported. I'm hoping as I get more experienced with this project I'll try to help out by pointing out missing hardware support, and learn how to build the .ko driver modules myself to add support for interface cards that might not yet be supported by XPEnology Thanks for all our wonderful Dev & Hackers for making XPEnology possible So much to learn, so little time to do it

I'll most definitely pick up the Norco 4U 24bay Hot-Swap ( http://www.norcotek.com/product/rpc-4224/ ) , if I did not already have some hot swap tower cases. XPEnology is quite forgiving, as in basically most hardware are compatible as long as it's listed in the supported list here viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10973 almost all the major well known brand names are included. I mostly recycle and reuse existing computer cases and add in some hot swap cages like the icy dock MB975SP-B ( http://www.icydock.com/goods.php?id=163 ) and MB973SP-2B ( http://www.icydock.com/goods.php?id=158 ), they also have 3.5" FDD bays to 2.5" HDD like ToughArmor series MB993SK-B, you can easily go over 12 disk bays depending on the type of PC case, Mid Tower vs. Full Tower. I've replaced most of full blown Linux Samba Servers (Fedora / Ubuntu) with XPEnology, I still run a few FreeNAS boxes for those hardware that are too old for XPEnology to run on. For SATA controllers, I usually go for the LSI 8i boards, as they are found relatively abundant and most affordable. I usually go for LSI 9240-8i or LSI 9211-8i for really old machines I'll pick up Promise SATA300 TX4

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! that is a good refresher. The first time I read about the binary editing i was still not quite clear, as it was a google translation from the french sub forum. Now it's very clear.

Thanks I'll check that out.

How do you make the calculation for the internalportcfg="0xffffff" ? is that a HEX number? because if that's the case it should have been internalportcfg="0x18" no? I'm about to do something similar with 16 SATA HDD, in an old PC case, I was trying to figure out how to edit that.

Yep. Set it to manual update, and to NEVER check for updates. Plan your updates accordingly. If you have a VM available, try which ever update you plan to install in the VM first, since VMs can roll back, you can safely test to see if the update works or not. Usually updates within the same version say 5.1 to 5.1-9999 are relative "safe" but once it changes to 5.2, there is a very high changes it will require a new Bootloader / Nanoboot / XPEboot whatever will be the next version, and then again repeats most 5.2-9999 updates are probably "safe" until 6.0... which is what our wonderful Developers are working on now.

I've done physical disk resize in a real Synology box before, and was from way back with DSM 3.x so, it's definitely possible to Extend the size of the existing HDD to use the remaining available space, as mentioned by sbv3000 Assuming it's a RAID1 setup then change one of your 2 disk in volume 1 to a larger HDD / virtual HDD then boot back up the machine, let the mirror complete the "repair" process, so it clones both to be the same. then shutdown the machine / VM again and swap the remaining small HDD for a larger HDD / virtual HDD after you restart it will do the "repair" again to sync both HDD to be the same after it finishes, you'll get the option to Extend the volume size to use the remaining new found space.

All the links to the x86 version are dead. Does anyone have a working link? I've an old Dual P3 1000 Mhz with 1GB RAM i'd like to install XPEnology x86 into it.

There is an old version of DSM 4.something that was still 32bit (x86) use google search this forum for 32bit DSM but be warned that version had a lot less hardware support than 5.x, since back then most of the DEVs working on it were still testing around. as far as I know 32bit XPEnology is no longer developed by our enthusiast behind this excellent project. they all focused on 64bit 5.x and hopefully 6.0 --- Update --- There still a x86 5.0 version here, but is only for 2 drives. http://xpenology.pety.me/ v5.0.2.4 x86: NanoBoot-x86-5.0.2.4-fat.img <--- you need this v5.0-4493 x86: DSM_DS214play_4493.pat <--- the .pat file you can download directly from Synology servers. latest version is actually DSM_DS214play_4528.pat and 2 more updates 4622 and 4627

I've got an old machine with this chipset intel 945G ICH7R Does anyone know which XPE DSM version works with that chipset? if the XPE DSM can not use the ICH7, can I use a supported RAID card like some Adaptec 6805E or LSI MegaRAID (Lenovo 500) cards in the system to handle the hard drives? I know the LSI MegaRAID are supported, but I couldn't find any info on Adaptec 6000 series. Thanks AG