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Tested the new loader (Thanks Jun) with my crappy old Dell desktop (as above). Same serial and MAC as used for above. Planning to install DS3617 image, so using that 1.03b loader.. Boots fine, gets IP Address OK.. It even finds my old DS3615 install on it.. This is gonna be interesting. Selected a fresh install of DS3617 DSM and installed the new PAT file (without update 2) DSM 6.2-23739 Booted fine.. Even had my customizations still in place (wallpaper, login banner and text). Installed update 2 from web and rebooted. Updated fine - even had all my old test data in place.. Tested Write/Read.. 112MB/s both ways on GBEthernet.. Superb work as always Jun.. 🤘 Will be doing some more testing before upgrading my main boxes but this is looking excellent!! #H

No joy for me either on 1.03a It is an old test machine (old Dell desktop) so its CPU is waaaaay older than Haswell. Worked fine as a test machine in the past, but I guess I'll wait until this has broader CPU support before testing again! Won't be anywhere near my 'production' NAS boxes on DS3615 and 2x DS3617 for a while yet! 😕 Thanks for all your efforts, guys! #H

- Outcome of the update: SUCCESSFUL - DSM version prior update: DSM 6.1.5-15254 - Loader version and model: Jun's Loader v1.02b - DS3617xs - Installation type: ASRock J3445 ITX, 12GB (1600 MHz) RAM - Additional comments: No reboot required but services restarted. No problem after reboot too..

Thanks!

I think you can use external USB as an rsync destination.. You're limited in what you can use (I wanted the files browsable anyway, so wasnt a problem) but it works.. At least I think it did when I tried it! Very interesting.. Will see if I can figure out how to set one of the drives (or more) as eSata, thanks!

Thanks.. Aye, external is an option - though performance would obviously drop.. At least I'll be able to fully control utilisation and power though.. Don't think I have an external 3.5 caddy (only 2.5) so I'd need to order one.. I'm actually thinking of moving the drive to another NAS that I only switch on for test lab work.. That might be the best option! Thanks for the ideas!

Scenario is that I use my always-on NAS as a surveillance station NAS (plus a music share, out of convenience). It was a DS216j but it wasnt powerful enough. New box has a disk dedicated to the surveillance station footage (lets say disk 1) Another for occasional remote Backups (disk 2). There are no Packages installed on this drive.. Another SolidState Disk for installed Apps and some VMs (disk 3). I dont use Disk2 that much (just for occasional backups) and I don't want it always on. I am not convinced HDD hibernation is working as it runs warm (not hot) just warm - even when nothing is accessing it (29DegC).. Can I do anything to get it to shut down properly - aside from removing the power cable until I need it? The previous backup disk failed (this is a RMA disk) and I don't want it to be 'on' if it's not required.. Would there be any effects of removing the power from the drive between DSM updates? Thanks! #H

If you're copying a very large file, then I'm sure there are a few other topics (from a while back) on something similar. Is this using Windows to copy the files using Windows explorer - or allowing the two synology boxes to do the copy?

Sounds like a lot more hassle than it's worth.. If you have spare disks, I would just set it up the same again in ESXi and just copy the data across.. Though in my testing, BareMetal was faster for me than ESXi.. I keep my couple of (always-on) VMs on an SSD in Synology VMM, and it's fine.. For anything more advanced (virtualisation-wise) then I felt I was better off with a separate ESXi server - using my bare metal Synology box as iSCSI Storage.. Depends if you want to mess around with vmotion etc..

Not really.. This new NAS is for monitoring security cameras - not much use if it's not switched on! The security camera disks are old drives, so can die when they want (only 500GB each). The other drive should spin down when not used (and I have an SSD in there too).

It 'supports' WOL - but I have this box on all the time, I'm afraid, so I can't confirm (as I don't need it on this particular NAS)..

Found a PCIe x1 single NIC card, which works fine too.. I've now got 3x 3.5 inch disks and an MSata SSD in it and it uses 44 watts (according to my meter).. It doesn't hibernate due to Surveillance Station, so that's in an active state... I'm sure I can get that down slightly (as at least one of the drives is 7200rpm).. It's MUCH faster than my Syno DS216j - well, it has got 2 extra cores and over 3 GB more RAM - and is actually usable with surveillance station (monitoring via smartphone). Nice work with the loader - again!

Aye, no notch though... I have been known to shave the little bit of plastic off the end of the slot - in order to get them to fit.. Worked fine when I tried it, it was a while ago though.... Think that was an x8 in a x4 slot (was Dell weirdness - can't remember).. ....Maybe not for a new board just yet though!

OK, build went fine - with the exception of noticing that the board only has PCIe x1 (so my x4 NIC isn't much use). Momentary lapse of concentration - but I don't need LACP or anything with this box, so no biggie.. The onboard NIC was detected and is working fine with the loader.. The board is the ASRock J3455-ITX board (the one with 4 sata ports).. My 2x disks have migrated successfully and I'm loading 6.1.4 update 5. When I get a minute I'll add my other disks and test performance over the NIC.. So far so good! #H

OK.. I've ordered an ASRock J3455-ITX board with a new ITX case and PSU (already have 4GB of RAM and a spare dual port Intel NIC lying around). Plan is for it to replace my always-on 2 bay Syno (more drives required).. I'll let you know if I can get it working with the loader. For an outlay of less than £150, it's a pretty damn good deal.. Price was obviously helped by the fact I had some spare RAM lying around, but hey ho!!

Bare metal DS3617xs - DSM 6.1.3-15152 Update 7 - Updated to 6.1.4 fine. Bare metal DS3615xs - DSM 6.1.3-15152 Update 8 - Updated to 6.1.4 fine. No issues on either of the bare metal boxes (and on my real Syno box, as expected).. #H

THIS!! ^ I'd prefer even these discussions were locked away on these forums - to certain users only.. At the same time, publicly, saying that it "can't be hacked"! - until official 6.2 release, that is!

Latest version.. 6.1.3 u7 (soon to be u8)

Ok. so I'm kind of answering my own question, but I've been looking around - trying to simplify things and I've come up with the following 'plan'. I deleted my second LUN (had nothing on it) and provisioned it as a new Advanced LUN (file level), then presented it to VCenter.. Then I was able to check the option to Snapshot it (looked OK) in Snapshot replication manager.. In VCenter, I'm simply migrating all my VMs (storage only) to the new LUN.. Will see how it goes! Once done, I'll delete the original LUN and reprovision as Advanced LUN.. This should give me the capabilities I am after! Any pointers to my original query, appreciated! Cheers H

Morning all Just getting round to trying to sort out some backups for my LUNs.. I chose Block Level LUNs (for VSphere), which means that my LUNs are not considered 'Advanced LUNs' by Synology.. Great.. Anyway, just wondered what the best way to back these up would be. I'm currently running Hyper Backup to back up one of the LUNs and it looks like would change the volume to 'file level' if it was restored. Again, great (not). I'm wondering if there's a way to do the following.. - any way to easily snapshot or backup the LUNs so that it doesn't change the disks when I restore them.. - view the data on the block level LUNs from the synology box. - backup the LUN to the same synology box (shared folder) or backup/restore the lun to another LUN (changing the LUN type to Advanced). Many thanks H

I got this in August to expand storage on my new iSCSI server.. Cheap and cheerful, but works great! Syba SATA III 4 Port PCI-e 2.0 x2 Card https://www.amazon.co.uk/Syba-SATA-Port-Profile-Bracket/dp/B00AZ9T41M/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1508143179&sr=8-2&keywords=Syba+SATA+III+4+Port+PCI-e+2.0+x2+Card

Updated to 'update 7' on my test bare-metal DS3615 and all working OK so far.. Also updated all packages and haven't seen any issues.. Will update my iSCSI endpoint DS3617 at some point later today (and my main DS3615). #H

DS216j worked fine (expectedly, as it's a real Syno) DS3615 and DS3617 (both bare metal) worked fine to update 5...

This thread isn't really the place for it but, but do you have a Gigabit switch port on your router/switch? A lot of ISP 'supplied' routers come with only 100Meg ports..

With DSM6.x I've an Asus H87i-plus board (works fine). It's 4th gen i3.. Not sure on new setups. Also tested Dell Optiplex 745 (test box) and Optiplex 9010 (work NAS, 3rd gen i3). Both work perfectly. GA-B250M-DS3H ? Sorry, not a Gigabyte fan.. Only Asus (or maybe MSI or Asrock if desperate) for me..