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butter_fry

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  1. Yes, I update plex all the time. You won't be able to do it from within plex, you'll have to go to the xpenology desktop to do it manually from there.
  2. yup, if it's got a management nic, that is also super easy. For the down arrow, it should be within seconds of boot up. Its the OS selection screen before anything ever gets loaded, but just after the Bios screen(s) Posted via Xpenology.us
  3. another option would be to let it boot to the menu, down arrow twice, then enter Posted via Xpenology.us
  4. well.. how about you set the default boot option to install/upgrade in the cfg file. If all is well, it will boot and you can remote web to it via your laptop. This should do here: UI menu.c32 PROMPT 0 TIMEOUT 50 DEFAULT install MENU TITLE XPEnoboot 5.2-5644.4-df9e09c Posted via Xpenology.us
  5. .." all your media in the perfect universal format for the devices your playing it on" .. and as we know this is a pipe dream. Plex can even do that for you in the background, but then you've got your CPU loaded up most of the time anyhow with background transcodes. Of course i'm talking video here.. audio should be pretty straighforward for any modern processor.
  6. When I built this box in my signature, the branch of choices you laid out looked similar to mine. Though I was looking at the C2750 (8core version). My needs were similar, but I also wanted do do some virtualization of a few preexisting servers I've got. I loved the idea of the Avodon boards, It seems like they are built with the NAS appliance in mind. the build cost would be fantastic considering you don't have to buy a CPU or an extra SATA card. But in the end, it comes down to cpu horsepower. While others may disagree, the ATOM chips just aren't there yet for what we're asking the xpenology boxes to do. I'll again reinforce this is for me, but this is what I found in my research. http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu ... Hz&id=2331 <-- notice the single thread performance. Not all processes are multi threaded. Loading up one cpu intensive task on a single core can be a killer here with this chip. http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu ... Hz&id=2230 <-- now look at this single thread performance. One core has nearly the same power as the entire chip. Of course you can say you can't compare Atom to i5, but we have to, this is what you're asking. My experience over the past few years with Plex tells me don't under power it. Plex is great, like the ultimate swiss army knife, it'll do anything well, some things great, others are a compromise. But the one thing that stands out, is even if you don't think you'll be transcoding all that much, you will transcode more than you think. The variety of devices and screens we ask plex to serve to demands it. Even if on paper it should be able to direct stream, sometimes it forces a transcode. My choice was a bit more clear, i knew i needed and wanted the power to do multiple streams, and multiple VMs. I needed the high single thread rating and multiple threads. Of course I don't have an that C2750 to compare, but numbers don't lie. I'm sure it does fine, but throwing more cores at an atom only makes it wider, not more powerful. I'm of a mind to spend a few dollars more and overbuild, having built servers for a living and countless PCs this is my accumulated opinion. I really want those Atom boards to work, but they just don't have enough horsepower for all the things xpenology can do. I know others will protest, but again the numbers don't lie, just make sure the numbers are right for your uses.
  7. I can imagine that its been looked at by the Xpenology deves for a while already since 6 was in beta most of last year. Or perhaps i'm imagining things? Unless they're sneaky and don't inject the protections until the very end... Either way jumping on a new revision of a NAS OS usually isn't the wisest idea for your data. I'm fine with waiting till Synology gets all the nasties worked out. But I'll certainly have a test machine ready! Posted via Xpenology.us
  8. AKA: You already have the real thing, therefore don't need xpenology. Posted via Xpenology.us
  9. yup, that i3 is nice. I just haven't been all that impressed with the board options in this first generation of the 1151s. But i must admit all the M.2 options are nice. Posted via Xpenology.us
  10. Those Celeron's and Pentiums have VT-x, not VT-d. But I can't imagine them being great virtualization canditates anyhow with only two cores. I think the chipset comes into play as well with Directed I/O as well.. but don't quote me on that. Posted via Xpenology.us
  11. Yeah I don't think you can buy a Synology nas with that much power for any price. (lets see if i can do this image thing right this time from onedrive) Looks like that proc of yours is about 40% faster than the pentium I suggested. I threw mine in there for comparison. Posted via Xpenology.us
  12. @berwhale, Congrats, sounds like a beast. What processor is it? e3-1220 / 1225 v3? £400 seems incredibly low priced for a server... must have been one heck of a rebate!
  13. oh.. yeah. so your $400-$500 != my $400-$500 either. More like $300-$400 i suppose. Better stick with a Retail board then Posted via MyXpenology
  14. hey @brantje, have you tried embedding images in this forum script? I'm using onedrive links and they don't seem to be taking. Posted via MyXpenology
  15. @secretlair Just cause its fun, check this out. Hopefully you're in the USA. This is the board I have.. with a bit less horsepower but still reasonably priced. http://1drv.ms/1S3XF3b[url=https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=DCF855B96F6FA4C8!319495
  16. no, not really. i repurposed a htpc case. itx with 5 bays. there is a ton of really cool nas centric stuff out there that i haven't researched. My plan when I run out of the 10 Tb I have is external if Ineed it (?!) Posted via MyXpenology
  17. errmm stay mainstream i guess. I'm no expert there though i see rumblings in these forums about Broadcom nics being weird. But all my builds have just worked perfectly so... Did one build on an old (2012) AMD embedded Zotac mini-pc thing that worked perfectly. I found a board with an onboard USB port which was nice for the boot drive. SSDs are nice for installing the apps onto for speed. I think things get weird when you get into exotic HBA/SATA cards and the Enterprise NICs. But since xpenology gets to inject drivers, you might be able to get the edge stuff cooked in at a later date if you make it easy for them. Posted via MyXpenology
  18. sheesh.. careful of the preview button on myxepenology. it double posts and you can't edit/delete once it does. Sorry about the multiples. @Brantje? Posted via MyXpenology
  19. @SECRETLIAR I just brought up the Pentium because it was inexpensive. You don't have to OC, it is just less expensive than the non unlocked models for some reason. just a random suggestion for bang for buck. SSH is great if the machine is working correctly of course.The management NIC gets access at a lower layer than the OS (unlike SSH). So if something really goes sideways you can always kill and hard boot it, turn it off, or hard on. Essentially it is like being in front of the monitor through a web browser. Just a nifty feature, nothing mandatory especially in a budget build. My machine is in a remote location where I don't always have access to a non functioning machine, but wouldn't consider my board a budget board though. power consumption is roughly the same for the i5 and i3 and Pentium. Within a few watts anyhow, unless you get an S chip. http://1drv.ms/1T7J48A Posted via MyXpenology
  20. @SECRETLIAR I just brought up the pentium because it was inexpensive. You don't have to OC, it is just less expensive than the non unlocked models for some reason. just a random suggestion for bang for buck. SSH is great if the machine is working correctly of course.The management NIC gets access at a lower layer than the OS (unlike SSH). So if something really goes sideways you can always kill and hard boot it, turn it off, or hard on. Essentially it is like being in front of the monitor through a web browser. Just a nifty feature, nothing manditory especially in a budget build. My machine is in a remote location where I don't always have access to a non functioning machine, but wouldn't consider my board a budget board though. power consumption is roughly the same for the i5 and i3 and Pentium. Within a few watts anyhow, unless you get an S chip. Posted via MyXpenology
  21. ahh, i can see how I misentrpreted the weird comment then. All of those apps listed would probably be fine with a celron. Its where you get multi tasking going is where it might get bogged down. that j1900 is pretty minimal like I said on the single thread rating. The automation of SickCouch lends itself to Plex as far as the actual media watching/listening is concerned. At that point you'll wish you had more horsepower. Video encoding with Plex is totally automated depending on your screen/bandwidth so the more you can thow at it the better and less buffering. Granted the system in my sig is way overbuilt, but i have multiple users streaming at a time. I went with a professional board because of the features like a 3rd nic dedicated to management. It has its own embedded web interface that gives me console access, monitoring and power control. that rough budget doesn't seem out of the question though, even for something a bit more beefy. You sound at least somewhat knowledgable about HW, so its probably safe to assume you have some components laying around. What about that cool little unlocked Pentium G3258? the chip costs as much as the Asrock board (~$70), but the thread rating is around 4x(!) per core. Granted its not a 10w cpu, but there are always trade offs i guess. 8gb mem: $40 itx board: $100 Processor: $100 expandible Case/PSU: $120 seems doable doesn't it even with padding in my numbers above? Posted via MyXpenology
  22. I don't think the budget question is weird. Essentially all you said was, "I wanna run a bunch of Stuff, how much will that cost". The most logical answer given the limited information was "How much to you have to spend?". There are so many choices in the PC world, and really the best way to figure out what route to go is by bracketing your budget. How can we know what will "satisfy you" without knowing what your plans are? You mentioned a few of the stock apps and a few other basic 3rd party ones... but also mentioned Probably Others.. so what are those others, and make a list and see what is CPU intensive. Maybe you need dual nics or plan on encoding video via Plex? What are your requirements? What components do you already have? Is this a 24x7 machine or just on-demand? Expansion capability? Generally, when it comes to cpu horsepower i tend to err on overbuilding on stuff like this. There is always some intensive thing that I cock up that i want to do, even if I can't forsee that when I build. I did a bit of your homework here and looked up the j1900 for you. http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel Celeron J1900 @ 1.99GHz that is a pretty low single thread rating for doing video encoding (DS Video like you mentioned). But i bet its a great budget solution for a NAS that doesn't do too much heavy work. More powerful than most OEM NAS hardware, but a bit too anemic (IMHO, it may work perfectly for some) for any real cpu intensive work. Posted via MyXpenology
  23. You're assuming this is WIndows. the login prompt is the correct thing. follow our directions and surprise yourself. Posted via MyXpenology
  24. choose install upgrade option Get the IP address that is assigned to the DS Browse to it in your browser (or use the synology assistant which will find the IP for you) walk through the install process Posted via MyXpenology
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