[Can I remove the USB stick?]

2 minutes ago, flyride said:

No, the stick is the boot device and is modified by DSM whenever you take an update, and perhaps at other times.

 

If you need to access the files on it while booted up, there are methods of mounting the partitions so that they are accessible from the shell.

 

 

thanks

[Can I remove the USB stick?]

After loading into DSM, is it safe to pull out the stick?

I know my question is simple and stupid but I dare not to have a try on the existing system.

 

By the way, no result shown when I search the keyword "USB" in this forum even though I saw many titled threads with "USB". 

[Will adding HBA break the current RAID?]

tested on my environment. Adding that HAB won't break the sequence / array

:p

[Will adding HBA break the current RAID?]

Currently, I run 6.2-23739  Jun 1.03b DS3617xs smoothly on Asrock J3455.

Four hard disks form a SHR on sockets Intel1 Intel2 ASM1 ASM2.

 

If I plug an extra Marvell HBA (the driver is compatible) on the motherboard and add the fifth empty hard disk.

I doubt whether the the socket sequence will be intervened and it re-sorts on certain criteria. Let's say controller vendor ID/Name alphabetically?

Hence,  the RAID collapses.

Or the DSM / loader is so smart that it could mark IDs on each drive and keep the sequence correctly?

 

Does anyone have experience on it?