Robert Mitchum

After some years, I decided to upgrade my NAS using the redpill tutorial. System: custom build Asrock J3455 Board, 12 gb RAM. 4+8 gb - I know thats not exactly "perfect". I was using DS3615XS Build 7.1.1 HDDs: 4 x 8 TB SHR-RAID + 1 x 4 TB Storage without raid + single 256 gb SSD Cache. My Marvell 88SE9215 4x SATA Expansion card was detected and works as a charm. No data loss, all six drives were properly detected. Upgrade: Pretty straight forward with the red pill tutorial. Only issue: my X.X.X.254 Address was NOT kept and a kind of random DHCP address was used, despite the Synology Finder told me otherwise and I could not connect. One look at my router and I know which IP to try.... Having a large raid, forget 10 min ... took roundabout an hour and I thought it failed. It didn't. It was plainly using a different IP as I assumed and took more time migrating from 6.1 with constant HDD acivity. Reason to upgrade: My 6.1 had severe issues with USB data transfer rates being typically way(!) below 20 mb/s (partially bwlow 3 mb/s despite USB 3.0 with an external backup HDD), its now working flawlessly achieving more than 60 mb/s to typically 100 mb/s data transfer rate. As I run a "Hyperbackup" on this NAS to an external USB drive, that matters a lot regarding "time required for backup". Strike! Issue with USB transfer speed resolved, works again, thanks to all "devs/modders". Still using 2 "Synology" NAS with one Xpenology and sufficient storage space using a timed power down as well as one 24/7 on my trusted DS215J serving "music" and stuff like that as well as acting as a mirror for really important data. Power consumption of my J3455 is 22 Watts idle and roundabout 45 Watts with all 5 HDDs "up and running". The DS215 takes half the power, so it stays alive. Don't know how long as solar panels with a battery buffer will be incoming hopefully this year. And then I do not need to be "greedy" with power consumption.

Well, watch out for other issues. I had the 918 Build first and it did not allow HDD Spindown at all with my Asrock J3455 ITX using 1.02 at that time. Worked after switching to the 3615, now I am stuck at 6.1.xxxxx I am watching the 6.2 development, but have not found a xs3615 Build being confirmed to work with the J3455 and its onboard Realtek.

Back to bootloader 1.03b and 6.1.7, liekly reinstall. Seems that the new Kernel is not addressing your Ethernetcard properly.

Side Information: Did a manual Bios Update of my Asrock J3455-ITX Board to the latest TWO ones on their website and tried for fun the 1.03b loader. No Change, still not working and "as expected". Funny: There were even TWO new BIOS Versions and both were newer than the one installed. But: Internet-Flash claimed, that there was no newer Bios available...

So I have to stick to 6.1 until then. Fck. And I thought, these small board are bulletproof.

Yep. No Change.

Asrock J3455 ITX the same. No network connection at all.

Doesnt matter, really. I have the old "J3455" and 4 GB Noname DDR3. Faster than enough. I do recommend the XS3615 build, the 918 one doesnt support HDD spindown.

I dont have .xpenoboot folder in the root of my NAS says "ls -al /" Thank god I did a backup of my USB Stick with https://www.alexpage.de/ tool. Took me a bit to restore (my windows 10 ******* the new USB stick with "you have to format..." up and locked it) but eventually, I got that backup back to work. So no brick, but really short of. And I have only this one "onboard" nic, so no way to change.

Cant get the "find.synology.com" and upload new pat. Loader 1.03b (Post #1), Baremetal System J3455 with 4 GB ram, currently 6.1 on it. Started with 6.0. USB Stick is VID/PID ok (verified) and I simply cannot upgrade. Even tried another stick, no way. I get the typical bootloadermessages, thats it.

Update: After now a week, this XS3615 Build works excellent. Spindown OK, everything is fine and as expected. Can recommend this for a "cheap" but still quick/capable NAS build. Maybe not for a production system (Updates, new versions always "at risk"), but for home use this is really more than good enough.

Worked, just took another stick and "converted". Now lets see if that thing is spinning down and maybe even WOL can do its job. Confirm: HDDs spinning down and keeping down. Yeah! And you hear practically a sh*****, as intended ... didnt too that long, he is now spinning up again. Dunno, dont care. Hope it stays this way. So: For Asrock J3455 - use the 3615 Build. Way better than 916.

How to change? New stick/PAT and thats it?! You dont wanna know how long I was searching for the setting/service, "spinning everything up".

Hi, I was suprised to see that the synology "OS" was also available for bare metal. As my old Thecus N5200 was kind of "outdated", I made my own NAS using the Asrock J3455 SOC System, 4 Gb Ram and an SATA Expansion card, see https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00AZ9T3OU/. Installation of the Synology using Juns 1.02b loader according to the tutorial here wasnt that difficult. System Config: 1 x SSD and 5 x 2TB HDD from my old Thecus working as RAID-5. Goodie: Build my USB Stick, 916 Image chosen, up and running incl. Extension Card. HDDs reformatted using BTRFS. Problem: The HDD Spindown doesnt work. I stopped everything and still - the system tries to spin down and is 5 sec later spinning up. I also checked https://www.synology.com/de-de/knowledgebase/DSM/help/DSM/AdminCenter/system_hardware_hibernation No, nothing active. I cannot find any reason why this dammn thing isnt going to sleep. The idea was to have music stored on the SSD and videos on HDD. So the system has any time of the world to spin down, "shut up" and dont go on my nerves. Yes, its pretty silent with the Node304 Case and no, its not silent enough. Any suggestions?