Jacopo Bassan

Thanks @IG-88 as always on point! Will try as soon as I can to update to the latest 6.2 probably, I was hoping for a fix without reinstalling but it's probably time to update anyway.

Hi, it's been some time that I can't get the network tab on Resource Monitor to work. The "Rete" (italian for network) infos are always at 0, but the network is working properly so I think it's just a resource monitor related problem. After some digging around I found some articles like this https://q1f4mmprz7gko.wordpress.com/2014/05/22/fixing-a-broken-resource-monitor-in-dsm-5-0/ which even if it's for DSM 5.0 and I've DSM 6.1.7 the parts related to SNMP database being the problem seems pointing me in the right direction. The fix suggested was to recreate the db with /usr/syno/sbin/synosnmpcd -r but my problem here's kinda different, here's what I get with a grep from the logs. synosnmpcd: db_handler_class.cpp:512 Error: cannot check database exist or not. synosnmpcd: main.cpp:116 Cannot Drop the dababase synosnmpcd: main.cpp:121 delete the DB over synosnmpcd: pgsql.c (96) Failed to connect to (null), user: postgres, pass:xxx, db:synosnmp. (FATAL: database "synosnmp" does not exist synosnmpcd: db_handler_class.cpp:951 Error: Connect failed And from here I really couldn't find anything else to help me. Anyone here maybe knows how I can fix it? Thanks!

I can’t thank you enough, with this plenty of options coming out of this wasn’t that straightforward. In conclusion as I’m adding 6TB drives one at a time when I need them, I’ll just don’t worry too much at this time on what I’ll use as soon as I’ll need the 5th one in the setup and fill up the sata ports in my motherboard. But if I had to get something today I’ll say yeah I’ll go with JMB585 5xSata and call it a day. Not planning to use SSD for caching anymore nor main storage so no need for crazy speeds, the JMB585 would be more than enough (I’ll not use the sata 5 port) for 8 max HDDs in my setup without bottlenecking the parity checks or normal use, and no driver worries etc, plus is cheaper than other solutions. In the meanwhile I’ll for sure upgrade to 16GB RAM (2x8) and that one more 6TB drive I need. If I’ll need more (faster network etc) I’ll have to rethink the entire setup and I don’t think that will happen anytime soon since I’m happy with my setup since late 2014, as I have no problem with both file server/backup use or media streaming. By that time maybe there will be newer options too. Thanks again for the patience

Thanks for the clear explanation, now I’ve a more clear view in mind, and I really don’t want to give up performance specially for parity check, I don’t want to think about just regular use which I well know is bottlenecked by network speed. I’m currently still on DS3615xs with DSM 6.1.7 and I’ll probably update to DS3617xs so maybe LSI SAS isn’t bad for my use case, I read is supported as is right? I don’t need hardware encoding or NVME cache so I think I won’t miss DS918+.

Yeah I would have done just a read-only cache, I thought it would have helped with accessing smaller files as in my use case. Looking around I found this one Pcie 4x to 6 SATA which seems nice, I'm not in an hurry to get it but I like to do my research in advance, mostly I want something that can support full sata 3 speeds on all 6 HDDs, I think this should do, right? Thanks again.

@IG-88 thanks for the deep dive into this tests, I came here too because I was looking for a pcie to sata card, do you have any more specific recommendations for a recent 6xSATA3 one? I've got a SilverStone DS380 case with 8bays and with an ASRock H87M-ITX I can only add up to 4 disks, and since I currently have 3 WD Red and gonna soon need one more (and probably a sata SSD for cache too) I was looking around on what could work without hassle. I've seen the SilverStone ECS06 but not much updated info with DSM. Thanks in advance if you can help!

- Outcome of the update: SUCCESSFUL - DSM version prior update: DSM 6.1.7-15284 Update 2 - Loader version and model: Jun's Loader v1.02b - DS3615xs - Using custom extra.lzma: No - Installation type: BAREMETAL - ASRock H87M-ITX - Additional comments: REBOOT REQUIRED

- Outcome of the update: SUCCESSFUL - DSM version prior update: DSM 6.1.7-15284 Update 1 - Loader version and model: Jun's Loader v1.02b - DS3615xs - Using custom extra.lzma: No - Installation type: BAREMETAL - ASRock H87M-ITX - Additional comments: REBOOT REQUIRED

- Outcome of the update: SUCCESSFUL - DSM version prior update: DSM 6.1.7-15284 - Loader version and model: Jun's Loader v1.02b - DS3615xs - Using custom extra.lzma: No - Installation type: BAREMETAL - ASRock H87M-ITX - Additional comments: NO REBOOT REQUIRED

- Outcome of the update: SUCCESSFUL - DSM version prior update: DSM 6.1.6-15266 Update 1 - Loader version and model: Jun's Loader v1.02b - DS3615xs - Using custom extra.lzma: No - Installation type: BAREMETAL - ASRock H87M-ITX - Additional comments: NO REBOOT REQUIRED

- Outcome of the update: SUCCESSFUL - DSM version prior update: DSM 6.1.6-15266 - Loader version and model: Jun's Loader v1.02b - DS3615xs - Using custom extra.lzma: No - Installation type: BAREMETAL - ASRock H87M-ITX - Additional comments: NO REBOOT REQUIRED

- Outcome of the update: SUCCESSFUL - DSM version prior update: DSM 6.1.5-15254 Update 1 - Loader version and model: Jun's Loader v1.02b - DS3615xs - Using custom extra.lzma: NO - Installation type: BAREMETAL - ASRock H87M-ITX - Additional comments: REBOOT REQUIRED

- Outcome of the update: SUCCESSFUL - DSM version prior update: DSM 6.1.4 15254 - Loader version and model: Jun's Loader v1.02b - DS3615xs - Installation type: Baremetal (custom build, specs in profile "about me" section) - Additional comments: No reboot required

- Outcome of the update: SUCCESSFUL - DSM version prior update: DSM 6.1.4 15217 Update 5 - Loader version and model: Jun's Loader v1.02b - DS3615xs - Installation type: Baremetal (custom build, specs in profile "about me" section) - Additional comments: Requires reboot

- Outcome of the update: SUCCESSFUL - DSM version prior update: DSM 6.1.4 15217 Update 2 - Loader version and model: Jun's Loader v1.02b - DS3615xs - Installation type: Baremetal (custom build, specs in profile "about me" section) - Additional comments: Requires reboot