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was checked... also, before i tried to "add" the disk by clicking repair" via think it was "manage" and then selecting this disk 4" I did a health check on the disk... the one that takes just over a minute, which I'd assume does more than just is there power on the disk. when I google it spoke about clicking storage manager and selecting the volume and then "add" but could not find this, was this a old version feature, or is this a feature that only shows if some criteria is passed. Will have to figure out how I will zero the disk now. and then retry, but I really don't like opening/closing this NAS as my entire house runs off it. G

No. to be totally accurate, drive was in case, but not connected, never used... straight out of the anti static rapping, placed it in case as it was the safest place to keep it, but never powered on. I also don't have any other machine to connect it to. house of MAC Book Pro's and iPad's. G

Hi Hi all. I've had the same drive go into "faulty" state a couple of times now (every time a repair worked perfectly and brought it back to healthy state), decided as I have a spare drive, of the exact same make/model (and the repeated problem), I'm going to swop the drive out. I did the swop, when the NAS was back up it showed the drive... in a Not Intialized state, I hit repair, and well 2 seconds latter it went into a crashed state. Although when I click on Health Info on the drive it comes back perfect. So #1 I'd like to remove the drive from the Volume Group first and then Re-add it back. DSM: version DSM 6.1.7-15284 G

Hi guys The last 2/3 days I've found my NAS shut down a couple of times, make that every 12/18 hours it's shut down. At the moment it has a scheduled shut down at night at 22:00 and then come back to life at 06:45. and thats working stable. DSM 6.1.7-15284 - ye it's old, but when 6.2 came out there was to many warnings, and be careful's f this and that... that I decided to leave well enough alone. I'm not seeing/having any errors reported, that I can see. Need some assistance trying to diagnose whats going on as alllll my movie, documents, pictures photos music, it's all on here and can't afford this monster to crash. please guide me. G

so configured the auto power off and power on, and initially did not see a change in my house power graphs... thought damm it did not work, circuit is still drawing 250watt... with some deeper digging discovered usage on circuit dropped from 250watt -> 190watt, so all that's left on there is my Edge router, my Unifi USG and a 24 port 1G TP-Link switch. bummer, if this was my NAS it was so much easier, with it being one of these others it def complicates things. G

curious... if turn off, how does it know to turn on? or does it more go into a deep sleep mode. G

thanks, will go have a look. G

Hi guys Every evening my station is used up to about 21:30... at which point veryone goes to bed, next use might be early morning, otherwise only at about 16:00 again, have noticed my NAS constantly uses 200watt and well this is a serious punch when we're running of the solar panels or even in the evening after everyone has gone to beed and the house runs of the Inverter Batteries. Is there any way Xpenology can spin the drives down, using Ironwolf drives. G

Well hope once it becomes more GA and not development work in progress someone else might writ their experience up, I've never done a upgrade so don't know what I don't know, what/how to even start the process so taking it very slow at the moment looking around for the general how to steps. G

hmm IG-88, looking at your response... I'm thinking it is actually better to wait at the moment still, this is my primary media storage and document/photos and music, not going to take a chance. Can I suggest that when it is in a better state that a dedicated upgrade thread be created. G ..

Hi all, I'm looking but not seeing ("ye calling myself idiot here" ) the guide on what/how to upgrade from 6.1 to 6.2 and what I understands also then requires a Loader upgrade from 1.02 -> 1.03, Can anyone point me to the how to, where's the document, tried posting in tutorial, but post is not getting approved so trying here. seriously don't want to brick my system, G

... I'm back... Problem was with the MB Bios going into a I don'\t like something, tell me what to do freeze, once I got past that then the loader kicked in launching me to DSM 6.1.7-15284 we can close this thread G

Ok, Got a problem. Downloaded the update (as my NAS said was available) and just applied (did not make note of the update number), It's gone, can't find the NAS using Sonology manager... What do I do ? G

Thinking I have 1 point I have to rewire to 1Gb, my WifiAP point to my switch, which is 100Mbit atm, probably leave the others at 100Mbit for now I'm not worried about streaming from outside my network, it's the inside from my Media server thats taxing the network. G

Problem is Cat 5 and cat5E. some of this is not to long runs. and I got conduit in the walls. mostly labour and some swearing needed. My original design for for as much as possible to use WiFi and only when I need high bandwidth to hard wire into the router... and now discovered that my hard wire points are running slower than what my Wifi CAN... if it was hardwired at 1Gb instead of the current 100Mb. G

so summarising 2 parts here, changing the MAC address and the Synology S/N after install have no negative impact. I'm still using (going to use to lab things before doing it on the bare metal build) my VM with the default MAC, so need to change this one so that it does not conflict with my Bare metal build now. Do I have to change the S/N? or can I leave it as is in the supplied synoboot.img G

did not use a custom ramdisk, only changed the pid and vid so assume thats all I have to do again with a new usb/loader. G

do we have a HowTo thread that covers this ? G

Current build/last night: DS3615xs 6.1 Jun's Mod V1.02-alpha + DSM_DS3615xs_15254.pat (DO NEED TO DOUBLE CHECK THIS, sure I remember downloading the b loader, but now see the alpa version in download directory, from where I would have used it) Thinking I should #!upgrade to the V1.02-b loader or wait for the quicknic loader as I'm going to need it anyhow due to HDD count. G

So confirming, (yes because was not 100% clear for me (because If I look at xpenology.com/download) and i'm trying to clarify v.1.02b is the current loader. which I can download from https://mega.nz/#F!yQpw0YTI!DQqIzUCG2RbBtQ6YieScWg!DYRAXCpB I would have expected the expenology/download link to first / top most link/list the newest loader and DSM. will open a upgrade question. G

bit confused re the boot loader. https://mega.nz/#F!yQpw0YTI!DQqIzUCG2RbBtQ6YieScWg!DYRAXCpB lists a 1.02b for DSM 6.1 But then everywhere else I see 1.02alpha. (listed: https://xpenology.club/downloads/) So which is it, whats the most recent / suggested loader, 2nd part to this question, whats involved in upgrading the loader, this is important in the context of quicknic's loader imminent as I've build my environment and will need to do this soon. G

Hi My Internet speed is less than the speed required for streaming. so even if I get line speed/internet, it still won't push the local speed capable, and potentially needed for HD and 4K streaming inside the house. Current NAS (with PLEX) is 1GbE to switch (TPLink TL-SG1024D), New XPenology (with PLEX to be) is 1GbE to switch Apple TV (with PLEX Client) is 100Mb (hardwired) to switch - With TV direct connected 2nd TV (with PLEX Client) is 100Mb (hardwired) to switch 2 x iPad's + 2 Laptops all connected via 5ghz to Wifi AP (TP Link Archer C7 AC1750) 1 x General computer - 1Gb connected to switch 1 x Macbook Pro - 5ghz connected to AP. various other computers devices still. Router runs separate on a Draytek Vigor2760 G

My logic says if I open XPEnology browser and start a copy between a remote/NFS mount point and a local (on XPenology) it should continue even when I close my browser ? I did one last night and it seems to have failed, so redid this morning, will see when I get home, G

and here in "1gbit connection of the ap to the lan would be better but i guess 100mbit will do as long as there is nothing else on that 100mbit connection so you realy get the full 100mbit speed for your wifi ap and for the video" lies my problem, I have 2 large screen 4K TV's, I have at least 2 iPad's also streaming, and then at the same time I'm busy over the same WiFi network. Thus my suspicion that at times when my PLEX is battling it might actually not be the PLEX, it might be the PLEX having to consider transcoding to lower resolution (for which it does not have the power) because of available bandwidth. with a 70-80Mbit needed per stream it implies I don't need to change the hard wired points as each of them won't kill the 100Mb available. Hopefully with the new XPEnology I'll have the CPU to transcode, step 1 and then step 2 being the fixing of the cabling where needed. G

All understood The proximity of the 5 devices are well within a good distance to get full speed from the WiFi AP. At the moment if each device pushes their ability then I'm bottle necking on the AP as it's 100Mb/s connected to my central switch, the switch is 1Gb connected to the NAS.\All ym Hardwired points are currently 100Mbps connected. Was curious what the band width required was for HD so that I can add them together and see where I'm possibly bottle necking. G