[Asrock Q1900-ITX/Q1900DC-ITX]

On 8/5/2017 at 7:33 AM, IG-88 said:

 

why not, raid5 is ok for 4 drives an can be expanded later, as the disks are empty there is no risk in trying

if you are intrested in hardware trancoding (you mention the 916+) this feature is now protected with serial number from synology, so no go for now

btw. if you are just intested in btrfs, you can use btrfs with open media vault, the wizard/gui doen not offer it but you can create it nabualy an use it with omv, i tryed my dsm created raid6/btrfs with omv and it showed up in omv (and in omv forum there was something about that btrfs will work if set up menualy)

but as far as i can see the synology way of using btrfs uses mdadm for the raid and on top of that there is btrfs as filesystem, so no btrfs native (integrated) raid, just a plain single volume with btrfs file system

 

I went the Rockstor route for now doing a raid 10 with LAG works like a charm.Tried OMV in the past and didn't like it at all was too buggy for my taste. I will be building a more powerful Xenology box sometime soon.Using the Supermicros MBD-A1SRi-2758F-O. Transcoding will only be needed remotely hence the more powerful build. Thanks for the Info non-the-less.

[Asrock Q1900-ITX/Q1900DC-ITX]

Hmmm, I was looking to purchase a Synology DS916+ or go the DIY route with Rockstor. Really want to use the BTFS file system.Then I came across XPEnology and this thread. I have a Supermicro X10SBA-O(J1900) 8GB's of RAM and x4 3TB hard drives lying around that I will/could use.This is going to save me $$$ for more or bigger hdd's . BTW is all the storage configs working - - raid 5,6 etc ?? Or is raid 10 still the way to go with BTFS? Any info is appreciated.