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Did the 20 gigs and it worked! Thanks! The GUI that Synology uses is pretty damn slick. BUT, spending $600 on the 5 bay DS1515 I was looking at is insane. XPEnology for me!!!!

Hmmmm, when creating the virtual disks, I did NOT pick the option to 'allocate the drive space now' (or whatever that option is called). Think that is what tripped me up?

Tried a size of 1 gig then 2 ......same error.

Trying to get XPEnology up and running in VMWare 12 (just to test out and play around with) but no matter what type of virtual drive(s) I create in VMWare (IDE, SCSI, SATA).... I keep getting an "error 35, can't format disks" message when I select the PAT file in the assistant. Any ideas? PS The links to the Synology Assistant appears to be broken on all the xpenology.* sites. I had to grab the SA from Synology's web site. And since I'm a n00b and all, it's quite possible I'm doing something really dumb over here.

I have an ASRock H97 Pro4 motherboard with an i5 4690K cpu stuffed with some hard drives. Was thinking about getting a Synology but the price for the enclosure is insane which lead me to XPEnology. Is it possible for me to put XPEnology on a USB drive and just make sure it works with my motherboard without harming my existing RAID 1 arrays on my motherboard. (Sort of like just taking it out for a test drive? Or should I disconnect my SATA drives first?) Also, is the Plex Media Server free with XPEnology? How are Plex Media Server updates handled regarding XPEnology? Can I update as soon as PMS has a new version out in the Synology app store or must I wait for somebody to convert updates into a XPEnology package?