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Been searching and searching.. trying to help my dad update his NAS.. He's running an older Sandy Bridge thats has 1.02b as DS3615xs on DSM 6.1.7.. works good.. but trying to move to 6.2.3/4 with 1.03b is turning out to be a challenge..
My initial test I took out the existing drives and put in a drive I didn't care about. Booted with the new USB stick.. that went ok, but no network. We're trying to stick with DS3615xs to avoid migration process.. that and it's and older sandy bridge cpu..
I'm copying over the test extra.lzma and replacing the existing one.. but to no avail.. How do I see logs or boot issues? only seeing the nice little 'static' page on boot.
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Anyone check to see if Jun Loader works with 6.1 yet?
Also, didn't Synology say they were publishing Source finally upon release of 6.1?
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To everyone:
I recommend not to update to update 9. Some people are experiencing issues. A hard reboot may fix the problem in some instances but this does not seem to fix the issue for everyone, so stay on update 8 until further notice. Tutorial has been updated accordingly.
OK, so here is what happened to me with Update 9 .. at least for me, is it's reset the NIC to DHCP.
I had to use Synology Assistant to find the DHCP IP address.. once I did that, was able to get back in and set it back to its static IP address.
Everything was good after that.
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I'll likely give up and get a real Syno box before they release the source..
Just waiting for them to update the 8 bay model myself. I've decided I prefer to not hang in the wind with XPE; some features I've been waiting on.
I'm really hoping for the 5 and 8 bay models, they add either M.2 or mSATA ports internally this time so we don't have to take up 2 drive bays for SSD Caching. Yeah, I know.. thats like asking for a better CPU .. Unicorns will likely fly first.. but, one can hope.
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Why would they sell you DSM for $100?
Let's make this simple calculation. Average Xpenology box nowadays runs something like N3150 (my guess), which is equal to DS716+. DS716+ retails at around €500, while your custom box with more RAM comes around €250.
So who would buy they hardware, if their software costed only $100? I guess nearly 0 people. That means, if they wanted to still be selling hardware, software should cost so much, that average consumer would raither buy their hardware, than build their own NAS.
It's simple business, no secrets here. If they started selling DSM separately for a "normal" price, they would just turn into software developing company, since hardware sales would decline to 0 sooner or later.
Yes and no.. it would completely depend on how they did it.. If it was a no support model for software only, then you'd still see many, many people buy the 'supported' version with the hardware.. Since the cost of support is basically what you're paying extra for.
Also, Enterprise level hardware (rack systems) IT generally is not DIY. They'd likely still sell many enterprise systems regardless as well as extended support contracts.. So it wouldn't be a cut/n/dry situation if they did sell it for a low cost.
In the end, if they did a low-cost, or even free version, w/no support, you'd see Synology's 'beta test / bug test' group suddenly expand greatly AND they'd likely 'entice' people who otherwise would not have outright bought a synology box by giving a 'try before you buy' type scenario.
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Figured we'd hear some news by now.. Is their a GitHub or anything? or is their anyone working on 6.0 for expenology?
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So with DSM virtualization would we be able to, say, run DSM 7.0 on a 6.0 machine without the wait?
Kind of.. they specifically use Virtual DSM as an example of running different versions of DSM. Just don't know how far that goes when it comes to major release versions.
I think it's intended to allow you to go 'backward' to previous versions.. not forward.. So while you could keep someone at DSM VM 5.2, on a 6.0 system, installing a 'newer' version in a DSM VM is probably not something it was designed to do.
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double posted.
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Yeah. I am actually in need of several of it's features.. Including LetsEncrypt, new file system, and want to put to use the new MailPlus Server...
I'm seriously looking at buying the DS916+ right now .. lol
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You can buy a Dell T20 with a 3.2GHz Xeon like mine for £221 after cashback from here: http://www.ebuyer.com/714837-dell-power ... r-t20-3708
The T20 has space for 4x 3.5", 2x 2.5" drives and possibly another 3.5" or 2x 2.5" (there's a bracket for a floppy drive which is a little space constrained).
The build in my signature cost just under £400 excluding the quad nic (which I was given) and the 4x 3TB drives (which I already had).
Not something I'd want; just to big and noisy.. Not something I'd want near my living room. lol
Often it's worth it to build a more expensive rig to get a compact unit to gain some peace and silence. Cost isn't the only factor in a NAS build..
Driver extension jun 1.03b/1.04b for DSM6.2.3 for 918+ / 3615xs / 3617xs
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Hi @IG-88, Thanks for quick response.. The board is a ASUS P8H61-I R2.0 with Realtek 8111F NIC and Intel H61 Express Chipset
I'll give the base 3615xs image a try and see if we have better luck.. I did try it first, but had modified the .cfg to include s/n and mac address. Should have mentioned that..
Thanks again!