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@Jauja It's very difficult to verify even with various "ipkg" tools. From my experience : Turbo is not used, CPU throttling (lower frequencies) is used. That said, I don't worry too much about it because : 1. everything is very fast including on-the-fly video transcoding (I didn't try H265 yet but H264 is not an issue at all). My network is my limit at the moment (real full duplex 1Gbits, 120 MB/sec measured from/to the NAS) 2. the power consumption of the CPU is low.

@hugh12 There is nothing special with this mobo. It's the same installation process as the others. The default BIOS settings are fine and you can tune them slightly later on (fan speed, wakeonlan, power/speed profile, ...). The installation process in a nutshell : - from another PC, download the latest xpenoboot and DSM - from another PC, install Xpenoboot on your usb key (with Win32diskimager for example) - on your NAS, boot on the USB key (F12 might be required) - from another PC, download, install and start "Synology Assistant". It should find your NAS. Install DSM from there. - Enjoy

Hello Hugh12. What do you want to know more precisely ? What kind of hardware you should buy or how to install xpenology ?

thank you very much! So I can buy this Mobo. A question: are the 4 gb RAM enought? wich model do you suggest? thank you I am not an expert but it looks like the memory usage never exceeds 1GB on my setup. Unlike some other NAS solutions like FreeNAS, Synology doesn't require a lot of RAM. You'd better double-check in this forum though Be careful when you buy the RAM, you need SO-DIMM RAM like this one http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Technology-1600MHz-PC3-12800-KVR16LS11/dp/B00CQ35GYE/ref=pd_bxgy_147_img_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=1BW2HXHTVYZ627YE7E5Q

thank you very much! So I can buy this Mobo. A question: are the 4 gb RAM enought? wich model do you suggest? thank you I am not an expert but it looks like the memory usage never exceeds 1GB on my setup. Unlike some other NAS solutions like FreeNAS, Synology doesn't require a lot of RAM. You'd better double-check in this forum though Be careful when you buy the RAM, you need SO-DIMM RAM like this one http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Technolo ... Z627YE7E5Q

Confirmed. It works perfectly with ASRock N3150-ITX. A major upgrade compared to my good old DS-212j still working but slowly and 2 bays only. Total setup costed me +- 200$ (without HDD's) Now I have 4 disks in SHR and it flies with max 30W (15W idle)