kouignamann

Actually I don't mind taping the SSDs inside. SSD are way tougher than mechanical HDD. My question is more about connecting them. I have a spare SATA port so that won't be enough I think. So a PCI Raid Card ? I don't know how to find one that is compatible (I don't need Hardware RAID just good AHCI) and assurance DSM will handle it.

Hi there, I've built a Xpenology machine with a HP Proliant Microserver Gen8 G1610T (nothing too fancy). Since I'm using it for photography workfow I'd be interrested enabling the SSD Cache featured in DSM. As far as I can tell, Read/Write SSD Cache requires 2 SSD (managed as a RAID1 volume in DSM). So my question is : How can I mount 2 SSDs in my machine without using a HDD bay. I think there is a free SATA port on the motherboard. But I'll probably miss one ? Is there a solution ? I don't know how the optical drive's connected, but maybe I can use that ? Also I think there is a free molex connector somewhere. Is there a way to power 2 SSD out of this ? For those who have enabled and used SSD Cache. Are performance way better ?

So my most valid opton would be to wait for DSM 6 on Xpenology machines ? Do you think a valid migration option would be : 1) Upgrade to DSM6 2) Add new disks and create a new BTRFS volume. 3) Copy data from legacy volume (EXT4) to the new BTRFS volume. 4) Erase legacy volume and use it's disks to expand the BTRFS volume I know it's a wild guess since we don't have much info about DSM 6 but I don't have a lot of mileage with DSM.

Hi all, I've recently installed Xpenology (DSM 5.2-5644 Update 5, recognized as a DS3615xs) on a HP Proliant Microserver Gen8 G1610T. Only modification are that I updated everything with latest HP SPP and I disabled "hardware" RAID for SATA AHCI instead giving direct access to disks. It works great so far. I'm almost done with my data migration. Previously I had a Netgear RN104 NAS. It is terrible for 98% of things, but it runs BTRFS natively. This means I've been used to snapshots and all the things here : https://www.synology.com/en-global/dsm/Btrfs So I was a bit staggered when I discovered BTRFS is not entirely available in DSM. As far as I can tell, il should be available in DSM 6. So my questions are : [*]Is there any stable way be to enable BTRFS ? [*]A way that doesn't involve backing everything up and resintalling the machine from scratch ? [*]Any workaround that allows me to use snapshots ? EDIT : I've not updated my bootloader (might be 5.2... Update 3). Is this a problem ? Thanks a lot for your help.